Tloosa Pastor of the Week: Pastor David Gay, Jr.

Contents:

• PASTOR DAVID GAY IS MAKG BLACK HISTORY AS A MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEG ADVOTE
• GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
• FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
• PASTOR DAVID GAY AT BLAH MISSNARY BAPTIST CHURCH
• TLOOSA PASTOR OF THE WEEK: PASTOR DAVID GAY, JR.
• UMC COMMTEE ORRED TO REHEAR CASE AGAST GAY PASTOR TO DETERME IF HE'S UNF FOR MISTRY
• 'QUEER EYE'S' FAB 5 HELPS GAY FISHTOWN PASTOR FD HIMSELF
• TORONTO PREACHER KNOWN FOR NONTATNS GAY VILLAGE PLANNG WT COAST TOUR
• RELIG LEARS REEXAME WORDS AFTER ORLANDO GAY CLUB MASSACRE

PASTOR DAVID GAY IS MAKG BLACK HISTORY AS A MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEG ADVOTE

Black History Maker of Alabama - Pastor David GayBlack History Makers of Alabama honors Pastor David Gay for his efforts mental health and muny well-beg throughout Wt graduated om Did High School 1974 and went on to receive his bachelor's gree om Christian Life School of Theology Atlanta, Geia before receivg his master's social work om the Universy of Alabama began his reer mental health at Bryce Hospal where he began workg as a mental health ai.

Outsi of Gay's mental health and pastoral acplishments, he has served and is currently a member of several board of directors for var anizatns, cludg Uned Way, Red Cross, Temporary Emergency Servic, Department of Human Rourc, PARA Foundatn, and Elevate reference to Black History, is our history.

GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY

2, 2010— -- The pastor of a Geia megachurch wh thoands of followers, who was twice married and is a father of four, is speakg out about his recent cisn to publicly clare he is gay.

FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE

I want to tell you that is not, " Jim Swilley said a vio shot the nonnomatnal megachuch Swilley found 25 years Swilley said g out was a cisn he's stggled wh sce childhood, he ma the announcement last month not for personal reasons -- he said he hop to save 52-year-old founr of Church the Now Conyers, Ga., said he's g out to help stem the recent ti of gay suicis Ameri and won't be swayed by some hateful msag that have been wrten about him onle. ""Hearg about the kids who are mtg suici, the reactn as a gay adult is, 'I wish I uld have jt talked to them for 15 mut or five mut and told them gets better, '" Savage said.

"Officials, Celebri Jo 'It Gets Better'Three weeks later, a cy uncil meetg Fort Worth, Texas, gay cy uncilman Joel Burns was moved to share his own emotnal story about how close he me to killg himself at age 13.

PASTOR DAVID GAY AT BLAH MISSNARY BAPTIST CHURCH

If you said someone was evangelil you knew pretty much what you were gettg – errancy of the Bible, importance of preachg, a foc on evangelism, warngs of hell and most of all – opposn to gay marriage. While still far om the mastream and the overwhelmg majory of self-scribed evangelils are still opposed to gay marriage, there are a growg list of pastors who scribe themselv as evangelil and yet support same sex upl.

'It has taken untls hours of prayer, study, nversatn and emotnal turmoil to brg me to the place where I am fally ready to ll for the full acceptance of Christian gay upl to the Church, ' he wrote.

TLOOSA PASTOR OF THE WEEK: PASTOR DAVID GAY, JR.

'Through [my wife] Peggy, I have e to know so many gay Christian upl whose relatnships work much the same way as our own.

UMC COMMTEE ORRED TO REHEAR CASE AGAST GAY PASTOR TO DETERME IF HE'S UNF FOR MISTRY

In a bate at San Francis's Grace Cathedral 2013, the thor and pastor Rob Bell, already discreded by many evangelils for his book Love Ws, gave a blanket endorsement of gay marriage. An outspoken cric of the Relig Right and print of the Sojourners magaze, Jim Wallis reversed his stance on gay marriage an terview wh the Huffgton Post  2013.

Several of Jen Hatmaker's books have been produced by LifeWay's B&H Publishg, who announced they would no longer work wh her after she changed her stance on gay marriageFacebook / Jen Hatmaker.

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

One of the relatively few proment female voic on the evangelil scene, Hatmaker received a fierce backlash when she said she thought God saw monogamo gay relatnships as holy. In an terview wh Relign News Service she said: 'From a spirual perspective, sce gay marriage is legal all 50 stat, our muni have plenty of gay upl who, jt like the rt of , need marriage support and parentg help and Christian muny. Asked if she would attend a gay iend's weddg she said was an easy answer: 'I would attend that weddg wh gladns, and I would drk champagne.

I want the very bt for my gay iends. The Southern Baptist church pastor om Los Angel, California, announced 2014 he is 'gay affirmg' and had accepted his son's homosexualy.

TORONTO PREACHER KNOWN FOR NONTATNS GAY VILLAGE PLANNG WT COAST TOUR

'In Augt of 2013, on a sunny day at the beach, I realized I no longer believed the tradnal [church] teachgs regardg homosexualy, ' Cortez said a letter published on Patheos blog. 'And was pecially the ttimony of my gay iends that helped me to see how they have been margalised that my ey beme open to the jtice that the church has wrought. (Dissenter) In 2016, David Uth, pastor of First Baptist Church Orlando, FL, ved all of the homosexuals Orlando to take the stage his church after a gay nightclub shootg 2016.

In Febary 2022, The Dissenter along wh Capstone Report broke the story that the large Southern Baptist megachurch preached a sermon where they affirmed homosexuals, transgenrs, and pro-abortn Democrats as active participants servg their church. Rearch: Homosexualy – LGBTQ Issu. Our Tloosa Pastor of the Week is Pastor David Gay, Jr.

3 & 790 WTSK salute Pastor Gay this week on his work the church and the David E.

RELIG LEARS REEXAME WORDS AFTER ORLANDO GAY CLUB MASSACRE

Gay, Jr., was born Tloosa Alabama and attend Did High School, where he graduated 1974. Pastor Gay has also received a Bachelor’s gree Theology om the Christian Life School of Theology, Atlanta Geia.