A play which portrays Jesus as a transsexual has faced strong criticism, ahead of its launch at a publicly-funded LGBT festival in Northern Ireland, it was reported in mid-November.
The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven is part of the Outburst Queer Arts Festival in Belfast, and is advertised with the tagline: ‘Jesus is a transsexual woman. And it is now she walks the earth’.
In a letter to the Belfast Telegraph, church leaders from across Belfast have called for the performance to be cancelled. The letter stresses that biblical teaching clearly portrays Jesus Christ as the eternal Son of God.
