Isn't God queer?!

Isn’t God queer?!

Isn’t it queer that God starts all people out as female and then continues to make less than half of them male and gives others of them both female and male parts?!

Isn’t it queer that God endowed each of us with erogenous zones that have nothing to do with sexual reproduction?!

Isn’t it queer that God chose a couple of nonagenarians (Genesis 17) who were way past child-bearing years to start one of the families of God?!

Isn’t it queer that Jonathan, the son of King Saul, and David, King Saul’s successor, had a loving, committed relationship in which, according to 1 Samuel 18, “the soul of Jonathan was bound to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul…. Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul”?!

Isn’t it queer not only that Jonathan loved David, but also that “the disciple whom Jesus loved” (John 13:23, 19:26, 20:2-10, 21:7, and 21:20-25) is traditionally thought to be “John,” and one of Jesus’ many titles is “the son of David” (Matthew 1:1, Mark 10:47-48, Luke 18:38-39)?!

Isn’t it queer that the prophet of Jesus—John the Baptist—never married?!

Isn’t it queer that one of the first theologians about Jesus—Paul—never married?!

Isn’t it queer that when Jesus refers to the Leviticus Holiness Code (chapters 17-26)—which includes a long list of prohibited sexual practices so that Israelite men don’t waste their seed in non-reproductive ways—Jesus doesn’t mention sexual activity but rather tells a story (Luke 10:29-37) about one man taking care of another man that illustrates the commandment in Leviticus (19:18), “you shall love your neighbor as yourself”?!

Isn’t it queer that when Jesus is tested by the religious authorities about punishing a woman accused of adultery (John 8:1-11) and the authorities quote the pertinent section of the Leviticus Holiness Code (20:10), Jesus doesn’t argue the code but rather acquits the woman?!

Isn’t it queer that when Jesus refers to King Solomon (Matthew 6:29 and Luke 12:27)—who had many hundreds of wives and concubines (1 Kings 11:3)—Jesus doesn’t judge Solomon’s sexual promiscuity, adultery, polygamy, or the fact that many of Solomon’s wives were foreigners, but rather Jesus comments on his glorious fashion sense?!

Isn’t it queer that God chose a young, unmarried woman to birth the savior of the world?!

Isn’t it queer that God’s gift to humanity never settled down and married and had a bunch of children like a good Hebrew was supposed to do?!

Isn’t God queer?!