It’s that time of the year again (Christmas or Easter) for someone out there to come out and say something provocative about Jesus in order to get the maximum media exposure.

“Jesus didn’t really exist” is a bit old and busted; it seems to come up virtually every year. The “queer Jesus” story popped up just in time for Easter this year but it’s based on some old material, so it doesn’t really count (“Dr Tat-siong Benny Liew, chair of New Testament Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, said Jesus was a ‘drag king’ who had ‘queer desires.’...