tomwingfields:

… D.H. Lawrence pondered the repercussions of Judas’s embodied desire for Jesus, specifically through an analysis of his Jesus’ ashamed reflection that he had offered “only the corpse” of his love to his followers: “If I had kissed Judas with live love,” Lawrence’s Jesus speculates, “perhaps he would never have kissed me with death. Perhaps he loved me in the flesh, and I willed that he should love me bodylessly, with the corpse of love-” 

…the openly gay Judas in Terrence McNally’s recent Passion play, Corpus Christi, responds to Jesus’ avowal of love- “I did love you, you know” -by exclaiming, “Not the way I wanted”. In Gethsemane, McNally’s Jesus character responds to Judas’s kiss: JOSHUA kisses him back, hard”

The intensity of Judas wanting to seize, to become one with, to have and hold God’s Son as a personal beloved

the immorality of turning the sacred into the sexual, his transposing Jesus’ message of divine love into a license for sensuality. Instead of channeling his physical desire into an ennobling spiritual mysticism, Judas is driven to possess physically, individually, for himself, on his own terms, in his own way the Son of God, who came to bring love to humankind. Neither a blessed saint nor a demonized sinner, a possessed Judas betrays Jesus in a moment when he is himself betrayed by his own overwhelming and impossible desires; he initiates the Passion because of his own unendurable passion for Jesus.