I'm hoping this is a bad joke. Therumpus.net has an interview with James Frey, who was justifiably fried by Oprah and others for blurring fact and fiction in his "memoir" A Million Little Pieces.

Frey says he's writing a book on Jesus that will touch on gay marriage and prostitution. Probably will be timed for a Christmas release. This guy sure knows how to dredge for publicity -- if not how to make friends. Some excerpts from the interview with Stephen Elliott:

SE: Now this is a book about a man, a carpenter. Frey: It’s the third book of the Bible, called The Final Testament of the Holy Bible. My idea of what the Messiah would be like if he were walking the streets of New York today. What would he believe? What would he preach? How would he live? With who?

SE: I remember you saying he would perform gay marriages. Frey: Absolutely.

SE: And he would live with a prostitute. Frey: Love is love. It doesn’t matter how or who you love. I don’t believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women. It addresses the supernatural aspects of religion, how we need to think of religion given the technology available to us. We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.