Some Christians try to rewrite church history in order to show that homosexual behavior was ignored or even celebrated in the early church.

So in today's episode I'll be responding to Mason Menenga's video who were the first gay Christians?

Ljb-Q Christians have existed since the beginning of Christian history.

This might come as a surprise to you, since many Christians claim that LGBT-Q relationships are a modern invention. But LGBTQ people

have existed since the beginning of history and that means that LGBTQ Christians

have existed since the beginning of Christian history.

Mason is actually taking the opposite view of what Christian revisionists normally argue for.

As you saw in my response to the 1946 documentary, which the producers of 1946 tried to have YouTube take down, by the way.

They tried to argue that homosexual relationships are modern, and so the Bible can't be condemning

them because they were simply unheard of in biblical times.

But of course, there have always been people with same-sex attractions.

That's why St Paul said those who engage in homosexual acts, along with other unrepentant sinners,

will not inherit the kingdom of God. But he adds this disclaimer, and such were some of you but you were washed you were sanctified you were

justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the spirit of our God so there have

always been people with same-sex attraction who practiced chastity in church history, and those who did not practice chastity.

Sergius and Bacchus were high-ranking officers in the Roman army, serving in the elite guard of Emperor Maximian.

Around the early part of the fourth century, right before Constantine decided to do the second

worst thing in Christian history, the first being skillet making music, when Constantine decided to make Christianity the official

religion of the empire. Sergius and Bacchus were so close in their relationship that at some point they went through

the right of Adele Poa Poasis, which was a ceremony in the early Christian tradition to unite two people of the same gender in a church-recognized relationship.

Look at that. Same gender unions and Christianity are older than some heresies.

Constantine did not make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.

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