David's adultery with Bathsheba suggests that homosexuality was not David's problem. Jonathan had the kind of distant father in Saul that may have made it easy to desire a man homosexuality. Being married with children doesn't automatically mean that someone is not able to be homosexually active.

David's eulogy in II Samuel 1:28 says that Jonathan's love was greater than that of the love of a woman. David used the same word for love that is commanded of all Hebrews. God approves of same-sex love; God does not approve of same-sex sex. I hope to post [link not yet available] an essay with more details.

21 August 1996. Copyright information is available.