Former CNN host Don Lemon has suggested that the Virgin Mary's husband, Joseph, was “some kind of homosexual” and may have smuggled her to Bethlehem to avoid persecution for being pregnant and unmarried. suggested.
Lemon made comment About recent episodes of Michael Steele PodcastIn it, he took up the Biblical Nativity story as a homosexual man's attempt to save himself and the pregnant Virgin Mary from the persecution of strict fundamentalists.
“Should I tell them what I said?” Lemon asked Steele.
“Yes, please,” Steele replied with a laugh.
“I said, 'Maybe Joseph was the type of gay guy to say…'” Lemon's voice turned into laughter as Steele told listeners to “get up off the floor.”
Lemon continued. “…Yes, I am. [speaking as Joseph] I don’t want her to die or be stoned to death or anything else just because she got pregnant and I’m not married…and I’m not married, etc. So, okay, this is perfect in a way. ”
Steele interjected, “Because he was an older gentleman and an unmarried gentleman.”
“Yes, that's perfect in a way,” Lemon replied. “So he took her out of town and brought her to Bethlehem.”
“And he left town too!” Steele said with confidence as Lemon raised his hand to show that the former Republican National Committee chairman had proven his point.
“I'm just saying,” Lemon deadpanned.
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As described in Luke 2:1-20, Caesar Augustus ordered a census of the entire Roman world, so Joseph brought Mary, who was pregnant with Jesus, to the city of Bethlehem. as luke I will writeJoseph went “to”. Bethlehem, the city of David, because he belonged to the house and lineage of David. 5 He went there to register with Mary, who was about to take the vow of marriage and have a child. ”
So the trip to Bethlehem was to comply with a legitimate census order from Rome, not to run away from the totally unfounded accusation that Joseph was “some kind of homosexual” or anything. It is.
