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Originally Posted by martureo
The argument that Paul was gay in any way stems not from his writings, culture, tradition, etc, but rather as a petty polemic against Christian belief.
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Unless my memory is completely screwed up, one of the early and prominent proponents of Paul possibly being gay was a Christian bishop. His argument definitely wasn't an anti-christian polemic.
As to whether it requires a leap of faith to consider Paul gay, I don't think so. Nothing that I have read argues that Paul was undoubtedly gay. The arguments I have read say that if he was gay, many of his attitudes are explained better than if he were straight. Given what we know about the percentages of men who are gay in the human population, there's a possibility that Paul was gay and it shouldn't be ignored in looking at his attitudes towards sex, women and marriage. There's nothing anti-christian in that view.