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Contents:
- EXCLUSIVE | QUEER EYE'S GAY PASTOR NOAH HEPLER SAYS HE HOP HIS STORY N HELP 'OTHERS EXPERIENCE GOD'S GRACE'
- 'QUEER EYE'S' FAB 5 HELPS GAY FISHTOWN PASTOR FD HIMSELF
EXCLUSIVE | QUEER EYE'S GAY PASTOR NOAH HEPLER SAYS HE HOP HIS STORY N HELP 'OTHERS EXPERIENCE GOD'S GRACE'
* queer eye gay pastor episode *
And the drivg force behd Atonement beg "the quirkit church FIshtown" is Pastor Noah Hepler, a man who has stggled wh his own inty as a gay man while tryg to navigate his way through a belief system and muny that wasn't aaid to tell him very pla terms that people who acted on those feelgs would be sent to hell whout a send chance. "***For Hepler, his issu stemmed om the fact that he grew up as a closeted gay man a very relig hoehold, one that tght him that all gay people are sted for hell and worse. In nial of his sexual orientatn, Hepler married and beme a pastor of the Lutheran fah, spe the fact that at the time the church had still not changed s views on homosexual clergy (although that has sce changed), and lived what he lled "a lie that I had been told that I had begun to believe.
Wh Antoni, Hepler got out of his fort zone as he was surround by "a gaggle of gays" the kchen.
'QUEER EYE'S' FAB 5 HELPS GAY FISHTOWN PASTOR FD HIMSELF
Wh Karamo, was a meetg he facilated wh two other LGBTQ figur the Lutheran fah, Bishop Guy Erw, the first openly gay bishop the church, and Pastor Megan Rohrer, the church's first trans pastor, that opened Hepler's ey to the fact that he was not to blame for his negative experience wh the church and the way s affected his life.
Like Hepler, he was raised a strict Christian hoehold and a church that vilified homosexualy. And for someone who knew at very young age that he was gay — and prayed that God would make him straight — that was a life-alterg experience that he still stggl wh to this day.
In a prev season, Bobby had already reckoned wh his issu wh the church — although he still refed to enter the church self — and went to greater tail about how those stggl shaped his life, somethg he was unwillg to do origally, but was forced to when a last mute schle changed land the The Fab Five at Mama Tammye's church Gay, Geia.