Interview: Peterson Toscano, Gay Christian activist

[Shana A]

Jonty Langley
Commentator, columnist and writer on Christian politics.

Interview: Peterson Toscano, Gay Christian activist
Posted: 29/05/2012 23:37

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jonty-langley/interview-peterson-toscan_b_1554339.html

Peterson Toscano is an American gay Christian activist and performer. That's an awful lot of labels. He's also an actor, a Quaker, a survivor of the 'Ex-Gay Movement', a comedian, a playwright and an actor, to add a few more. Personally, I just found him charming, smart and funny. And that's why I'll be going to see his show involving transgender readings of the Bible at a Christian festival in August.

His work and ideas are far from uncontroversial, but he believes it has the power to change the way even conservative minds understand some key passages in the Bible. Talking to Peterson about Pentecostalism, whether the Bible condemns homosexuality, talking to Focus on the Family, the most famous Ethiopian in Scripture and what he'd do if he were Pope, I suspect he might be right.

[justmeinoz]

He sounds like he might put on a good show, even for an Atheist Existentialist like myself.  Any chance of him coming to Oz?

[Jamie D]

Which one?