Marvel Comics has rewritten the story of one of their most iconic characters. It’s been discovered this week by newsarama.com that Iceman from the Original X-Men has come out as gay. When the five original X-Men time travel to the future (our present day) to fight alongside their successors, Iceman is conflicted because his current self is gay but his older self is not. This twist in the story has enough implications into self and identity to make your head spin.
But what Marvel Comics has done is not new, or really all that surprising. They’ve simply rewritten a story to reflect the convictions of our current society. While there are moral implications in this particular case, the rewriting itself is neither good nor bad because we’re dealing with fictional characters in a fictional world in fictional scenarios.
However, when this propensity to rewrite is carried over to rewriting truth, that’s when serious problems arise. And sadly, this is not new either. Our society has done the same with God’s Word, arguing that it doesn’t really teach against homosexuality. Yet even if you disagree with the Biblical commands against homosexuality, you cannot deny that the writers were teaching against homosexuality. Homosexuality is forbidden in the Old and New Testaments. The traditional view of marriage is affirmed by Jesus himself (Matthew 19:10). We can disagree, but we cannot rewrite it.
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