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** Oddly enough, the knee jerk hand wave to the former is it's [[Not What It Looks Like]], meaning it apparently even looks like [[Ho Yay]] even to conservative Christians.
*** Rabbinical essays on the love between David and Jonathan have pointed out that the translators of the King James Bible made some pretty slick changes to the original story to make it ''less'' homoerotic. In one scene, David sees Jonathan after a long journey and, shall we say, achieves priapic splendor - at least in the Hebrew. In English he just "exceeds" - which scholars claim means he cried a lot.
**** Except, the context makes it clear that they are right, he WAS crying a lot. Unless you think he randomly got a boner in the middle of telling Jonathan goodbye when Saul was planing to kill him. Referent Passage here: [https://web.archive.org/web/20130509081915/http://bible.cc/1_samuel/20-41.htm
***** [[Sarcasm Mode|Yes, because it's not like they might have wanted one last encounter or anything...]]
* Jesus was always surrounded by a dozen men all the time, and several counts of men kissing each other. True, that was the typical greeting at the time, but taken out of context:
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