Is biblilly allowable for a pastor to be gay? |

Contents:

• A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
• SOUTH AIN GAY PASTOR MARRI HIS LONG-TIME BOYIEND
• GAY NAMIBIA TRAVEL GUI
• ANTI-GAY PASTOR RIGNS AFTER ALLEGEDLY 'BEG WH PROSTUT'
• IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
• HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
• WE'RE NAMIBIA'S FIRST GAY MARRIED UPLE: ANY QUTNS FOR ?
• NAMIBIAN CHRISTIANS VT HOP ‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’ TACTIC
• 'QUEER EYE'S' FAB 5 HELPS GAY FISHTOWN PASTOR FD HIMSELF

A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY

Unfundamentalist Christians founr John Shore recently shared a letter om a gay Christian who is stgglg wh his sexualy and fah. Among the many enuragg ments on that post was one om a gay pastor who betifully explaed his unrstandg of the Bible, Christiany, and pastor gracly agreed to let me share his ment as blog post here.

Pl was not sayg that idolatry turns people gay; rather, he was sayg that idolatry led to participatn shameful acts of lt. If I ever meet a fe gay man who is Spirual and lovg and mutually attractive, and if I felt the Lord leadg me to him and him to me, I would feel ee to be his mate.

SOUTH AIN GAY PASTOR MARRI HIS LONG-TIME BOYIEND

Home / Namibian church battle wh LGBT issu2016-09-23 Staff Report 2 Wdhoek Namibian Christendom is for the first time nonted by a topic that, until now, as far as the Namibian church tablishment is ncerned, has always been a straightforward matter: the Namibian Constutn do not guarantee marriage for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) persons. Speakg at a media briefg Wdhoek on Friday, Magazi said there are no ternatnal stments regnisg lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex and other (LGBTQI+) rights, and abortn as a woman's right, and all rights should be exercised le wh existg laws. Church members were full of cheers and applse when a gay Anglin prit the Anglin Church South Ai recently “married” another man.

Pastor Pl Mwra is seen makg out wh his homosexual lover, another gay prit om Kenya, John Maierepi as they tie the knot to live wh each other till the end of life. “Sexual orientatn is born, unchosen and unchangeable, don’t judge them please, touch not the anoted on, ” the two pastors are quoted as sayg when asked why they chose to be gays.

GAY NAMIBIA TRAVEL GUI

Donnie Romero, a Baptist pastor who has ma natnal headl for his vilently homophobic sermons, recently rigned om his Texas church after admtg he has been “a terrible hband and father.

Courty Stedfast Baptist Church / YouTubeWhile Romero — who has pared LGBTQ people to pedophil, lled gays “scum of the earth” and appld the 2016 mass killg of gay people at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub — did not provi tails about his behavr, Steven Anrson, a pastor who joed Romero last week durg his rignatn sermon, shared sight on YouTube to his iend’s “grievo ss. Shelley, like Anrson, said equentg prostut led to Romero’s rignatn, though Shelley add that he did not know the genr of the Romero, Shelley strongly nmns homosexualy.

ANTI-GAY PASTOR RIGNS AFTER ALLEGEDLY 'BEG WH PROSTUT'

“The bible mak clear that homosexuals should be put to ath acrdg to God's law, and at the foundg of Ameri that once was the law, ” he claimed.

Some people nsir themselv gay bee they are attracted to members of their own genr, even if they do not act on those attractns. So may be biblilly allowable for a pastor to nsir himself gay—that is, he stggl wh homosexual attractn—if he is mted to sexual pury, never acts on those sir, and never enurag anyone else to do so (see Romans 1:32).

God’s Word is as clear on the s of homosexual behavr as has always been (Levic 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26–27; 1 Timothy 1:10; 1 Corthians 6:9). A pastor is a fallible human beg jt like those his ngregatn; so is biblilly allowable for him to stggle wh homosexual sir, adultero sir, greedy sir, priful sir, etc. A pastor who choos to live a homosexual liftyle is unf to gui a ngregatn and has missed the pot of what means to follow J (John 14:15, 23).

IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?

Jt as we nnot clare that is allowable for a pastor to actively pursue other ss, we nnot clare that is biblilly allowable for a pastor to be gay. Greg Johnson scrib himself as a “gay atheist teenager” who fell for J — and found himself at the center of evangelil Christiany’s ternal battl over nearly 20 years, Johnson has pastored Memorial Prbyterian Church St. When he me out to his church, he said he received a standg ovatn and shouts of “We love you, Greg” om sce Johnson went public wh his orientatn Christiany Today, pastors his nomatn, the Prbyterian Church Ameri, have tried to banish clergy who intify as gay, even if they m to celibacy.

“I spent a lot of years nvcg myself that I was a straight man wh a disease lled homosexualy that uld be cured, ” Johnson said on Wednday’s St. ”The ln Johnson is referrg to are people who participated the so-lled “ex-gay movement, ” which centered on the theory that one n change sexual orientatn.

Last year, Johnson released a book lled “Still Time To Care: What We Can Learn om the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexualy, ” which scrib the fall of the ex-gay movement.

HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI

”When the PCA nomatn voted last year on whether to keep gay people om beg clergy members, one observer wrote that the actn was signed to “prevent another Greg Johnson.

”More than 60% of regnal church bodi voted favor of barrg people who intify as gay om beg clergy, even if they do not engage sexual behavr. ”Johnson said there’s a huge need wh the evangelil church to tra parents and pastors to love gay youth whout tryg to ntrol them. “If you're gog to be a nomatn that says you n't have gay marriage, then you've got to provi alternate forms of muny, ” Johnson said.

WE'RE NAMIBIA'S FIRST GAY MARRIED UPLE: ANY QUTNS FOR ?

Lears of church partg om the ELCA said along wh the policy on gay ordatns that the nomatn was no longer a good f for their church and was important for them to disassociate wh the reputatn of their former erng body. Departg Prbyterian lears also characterized the policy on gay ordatns as “the straw that broke the mel’s back, ” but far om the sole reason.

Though homosexualy is crimalised Namibia, the pair tied the knot South Ai and returned to Namibia to bee proment LGBT rights mpaigners. His activism has earned him the tle of Mr Gay Namibia 2013 and is he is the procs of settg lol support group his home town, jog a untrywi support work for LGBT. His work is not whout s risks; another wner of the Mr Gay Namibia tle, Wenl Hamutenya, was attacked as he walked home days after wng the petn.

NAMIBIAN CHRISTIANS VT HOP ‘PRAY THE GAY AWAY’ TACTIC

Acrdg to the rights group OutRight Namibia, LGBT people Namibia enunter homophobia and transphobia on a daily a film about their liv, ma by the Internatnal HIV/Aids Alliance and Posive Vib, the uple discs their activism, their relig beliefs and their experience of nductg a lovg relatnship a untry where beg gay is agast the law. Amunjera and Themba will jo the Guardian Ai Network for a live Q&A om 1pm - 2pm BST on Tuday 20 May, to answer your qutns about livg as an openly gay activist Namibia.

I 'd say that Bisexualy issu are mostly overlooked or ignored as there is more need to addrs the tense and latg Gay & Lbian matters, if you let me get to your nversatn, I thk your qutn is really good. Many people thk that LGBTI rights are some sort of special rights for 'gays', while fact is about LGBTI people to be able to enjoy the very same rights everybody else has.

'QUEER EYE'S' FAB 5 HELPS GAY FISHTOWN PASTOR FD HIMSELF

Our Namibian erment never really openly spoke about their stance on homosexualy although elements wh the erment voiced their opn and as far as Iam ncerned those are opns and hatred that they will ahve to al wh while I live the bt life a untry that I ll my home.

Neverthels, we have never been discrimated agast and most people we meet ment about our love, which we are blsed to you feel threatened often by the homophobia you face? And many more, policians are ventg their homophobia openly, fuelg stigma and discrimatn at every level of do you feel about the plight of other gay people Ai?

My qutn would be how do they avoid arrt or legal actn, and how do they rry out their activism unr the nstant threat of homophobia om anti-gay activists and law enforcement? Along wh the oil and ash, the 25-year-old says he washed away the trmatic memori om that summer ceremony 2014, but only after he’d assured his mother, the church prophet and a church elr, that he was no longer gay, that he’d been cured, and that the evil was gone — vanquished by fervent prayer and sttered ash.