At 1 Lutheran church, gay, partnered and preachg - The San Diego Unn-Tribune

Contents:

• PK GOD AND GAY J E TO THE FENSE OF LOL PASTOR
• EPISO 39: BRANDAN ROBERTSON TALKS TO US ABOUT BEG A GAY PASTOR AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A TLY INCLIVE HUMAN BEG
• AT 1 LUTHERAN CHURCH, GAY, PARTNERED AND PREACHG
• HE WAS A GAY MAN ON STAFF AT A CATHOLIC PARISH. THEN THE THREATS BEGAN COMG IN.
• PASTOR SU OVER BAN ON GAY ‘NVERSN’ THERAPY
• “SOY SERG, SOY GAY Y SOY PASTOR EVANGéLI”
• WHE HOE NOMAT GAY SAN DIEGO MAYOR FOR BOARD OF TSTE ROLE
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR.

PK GOD AND GAY J E TO THE FENSE OF LOL PASTOR

As a gay Christian, Greg is passnate about helpg the LGBTQIA+ muny San Diego experience the betiful vatn of J to e and fd a place at his table. Years later, when he was gog to his sophomore year of llege, he had a radil enunter wh God and redited his life to him. Homosexualy & The Bible.

The Met has been servg the LGBTQ+ and larger San Diego muny sce here if you have qutns or ncerns regardg homosexualy and the here if you'd like to learn more about our nomatn. In Febary 2015, Time Magaze reported on a young evangelil lear who had been dropped om his Christian publisher after refg to sign a statement that he did not “ndone, enurage or accept the homosexual liftyle.

He was mentored by a proment ex-gay thor while attendg Moody Bible Instute Chigo who eventually outed him to fellow faculty. Pl’s Cathedral Bankers Hill when she noticed proment gay activists attendance at a Christmas Eve service. “After 13 years of marriage and pastorg church, my wife lled me one day and was like, ‘I thk you’re gay, ’” Hs said a room rerved for mic rehearsals at UCC.

EPISO 39: BRANDAN ROBERTSON TALKS TO US ABOUT BEG A GAY PASTOR AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A TLY INCLIVE HUMAN BEG

“I was a nservative Christian by fah and I had never wanted to be gay. Intifyg as gay was patible wh his fundamentalist fah. I didn’t preach ever on homosexualy bee I uldn’t even say that word — I was so sred of , ” Hs relled.

He was attendg a Uned Methodist Church (UMC) semary when he learned the nomatn still officially nmned homosexualy.

Sce then, he has rebuilt his life as a mic teacher and as the artistic director for the San Diego Gay Men’s Chos. To watch a nservative factn of the church say, ‘We don’t want gay bishops and pastors that already are servg mistry and dog a great job, we don’t want them jt bee they’re LGBTQ’ — to see one of the largt nomatns the world ci this was heartbreakg, ” Robertson said.

AT 1 LUTHERAN CHURCH, GAY, PARTNERED AND PREACHG

The homophobia she faced mak patg a new picture of what the church Ameri n be — a place of healg, cln, safety — sential to the work she do now.

She is also thankful for the nversatns and learship opportuni livg at the tersectn of Christian and gay has given her. “Growg up, I didn’t even know there were other gay Christians the world. That was really nfg for me — as is for so many people g out who are raised fah tradns — you actually n be gay and Christian and that’s not anthetil to the Bible.

HE WAS A GAY MAN ON STAFF AT A CATHOLIC PARISH. THEN THE THREATS BEGAN COMG IN.

“I never believed gay Christians actually existed. I’d always believed if you are homosexual, you uld not be a part of the church or wouldn’t want to be, ” he said.

PASTOR SU OVER BAN ON GAY ‘NVERSN’ THERAPY

While swchg to an affirmg church has meant the LGBTQ+ Christians n ntue forward their mistry ee om discrimatn and other barriers, they also had to overe ternalized homophobia and shame. Robertson did not know was possible to hold the inty of gay and Christian at the same time.

“SOY SERG, SOY GAY Y SOY PASTOR EVANGéLI”

And I remembered hearg what the pastor had preached about homosexualy beg an abomatn.

WHE HOE NOMAT GAY SAN DIEGO MAYOR FOR BOARD OF TSTE ROLE

“Maybe I am gay but, oh my gosh, if I am what do that mean?

The love and grace of God drew him to fah, but he stggled wh rencilg that wh what he had been tght about his homosexualy. When she found out some her relign are racist, kept women out of learship and discrimated agast the gay muny, she was appalled. Pk God and Gay J e to the fense of lol pastor.

That’s bee, stg wh Froslee’s fay at his stallatn ceremony Febary, was his male partner of 5 1/2 years – livg proof that Froslee has flouted the ELCA’s prohibn on non-celibate gay pastors. An ELCA task force has remend a policy that would let ngregatns ci whether to allow gays and lbians mted relatnships to serve as their clergy.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

“I hemmed and hawed for que a while, and then fally I said I don’t thk there’s a place for me the church bee I’m gay, ” Froslee said. He’s also been an activist on issu of homosexualy and Christiany, -foundg a summer mp for gay, Christian youth.

“Our simple motivatn was fd the bt person, gay or straight. ” Not every gay pastor has been as fortunate as Froslee.

Wh rapid social change on gay rights even recent weeks, cludg the sudn legalizatn of gay marriage Vermont and Iowa, he said the Lutheran church mt fd a way to proceed amid strongly divergent viewpots.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR.

SAN DIEGO — Homels people the LGBT muny have a new place to fd Monday, the Interfah Shelter Network opened s new Hillcrt branch, the first wh a specific foc on homels people who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr. Fernando Lopez, executive director of San Diego Pri, said he empathized wh people who may need the shelter, havg been homels San Diego at 17 after movg away om El Centro and the fay that rejected him bee he was gay. “If you are margalized and attempt to enter a space that’s homophobic, that n be re-damagg, ” he said.