"I love the Earl of Buckingham more than anyone else," James announced to his councilors, "and more than you who are here assembled." He compared his love for the earl to Jesus's affection for the "beloved disciple" John. "Jesus Christ did the same," the king said, "and therefore I cannot be blamed. Christ had his John, and I have my George."
With such pronouncements King James seemed to reach a new level of outrage, especially when he compounded his offense, in the view of many, by heaping Buckingham with costly jewels, lands, and lucrative offices.
-Royal Panoply, Brief Lives Of The English Monarchs
Carrolly Erickson, History Book Club
2007-02-09 10:08:17 · 24 answers · asked by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Uhh, no he wasn't, but he's not exactly here to defend himself, now is he?
You're a liar.
2007-02-09 10:23:19 · answer #1 · answered by CJ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In 'olden times' men often referred to others as their beloved friend look up the biographies of painters long past. The word beloved has a different meaning today, football players hug and smack each other on the butt, but, that doesn't mean they are gay. Christ called his disciples beloved or loved because they were at his side when all left him. King James-I haven't spoken to him lately-appears to be sarcastically trying to tick off his people. Jesus would not have approved of the raping of Buckingham.
2007-02-09 18:21:14 · answer #2 · answered by dtwladyhawk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I think he was just a dirty old man. Apparently when we read about the king's "favourites" that often enough means young men.
One of the conditions to have been a minister in King James' government seems to have been to be a young man. .. and the rest.
He had the King James Version of the Bible written (translated) in order to try and unify the different movements within christendom in England. The Church of England people did not appreciate the Geneva Bible, translated by the evangelicals of the time. King James was the great oecumenist of his day.
Those evangelicals who believe the King James Version is the only English version worth having should look into their history, and the way in which that translation was done.
2007-02-09 18:16:19 · answer #3 · answered by Mr Ed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sad when someone who has been dead for over 400 years and people are still creating gossip about him in order to draw attention to themselves.
Can we help you since everyone else is out of reach?
2007-02-09 18:13:36 · answer #4 · answered by Here I Am 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did you know that one of the most powerful love stories in the Bible is between two men? David and Jonathan.
2007-02-09 18:47:42 · answer #5 · answered by Wisdom in Faith 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Did you know he didn't actually do the translation work, he had hirelings do it and put his name on it? Kings are like that. I'll give him credit for not making them delete references to homosexuality being a sin though.
2007-02-09 18:11:19 · answer #6 · answered by Rossonero NorCal SFECU 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes he was
King James (who commissioned the King James Bible and to whom it was dedicated)loved men and had sex with them? At the age of thirteen James fell madly in love with his male cousin Esme Stuart whom he made Duke of Lennox. James deferred to Esme to the consternation of his ministers. In 1582 James was kidnapped and forced to issue a proclamation against his lover and send him back to France.
Later, James fell in love with a poor young Scotsman named Robert Carr. "The king leans on his [Carr's] arm, pinches his cheeks, smooths his ruffled garment, and when he looks upon Carr, directs his speech to others." (Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk, in a letter, 1611)
Carr eventually ended the relationship after which the king expressed his dissatisfaction in a letter to Carr, "I leave out of this reckoning your long creeping back and withdrawing yourself from lying in my chamber, notwithstanding my many hundred times earnest soliciting you to the contrary...Remember that (since I am king) all your being, except your breathing and soul, is from me." (See The Letters of King James I & VI, ed., G. P. V. Akrigg, Univ. of Calif. Press, 1984. Also see Royal Family, Royal Lovers: King James of England and Scotland, David M. Bergeron, Univ. of Missouri Press, 1991)
God Bless You
2007-02-09 18:14:17 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jeesh, that didn't mean he wanted to sleep with the guy, he meant the kind of love one friend has for another. Don't you have a best friend?
2007-02-09 18:12:17 · answer #8 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Isn't it amazing how satan tries to take our eyes off the big picture, by trying to get us bogged down in something so trivial?!! Who cares what he was. All I want to know about is Jesus.
2007-02-09 18:14:33 · answer #9 · answered by Gail R 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
So if a man loves his son more than he loves anyone else...if he loves his son as Jesus loved John....Is he a pedophile?.... or are you just stupid?
2007-02-09 18:13:29 · answer #10 · answered by msender77 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋