Pastors at Atlanta Pri Ftival Apologize to Gay Communy - Christian Newswire

Contents:

• ATLANTA CHURCH FIRST LADY’S HBAND AND SON E OUT AS GAY
• MARRIED ATLANTA PASTOR SPEAKS OUT ABOUT LEAK OF HIS GAY SEX TAPE | WATCH
• ATLANTA GAY PASTOR’S EX-WIFE ON HEALG AFTER HE LEFT HER FOR A MAN
• THE CALL AND RPONSE OF A GAY BISHOP: HOW THE TTH TRANSFORMED DENNIS MEREDH'S LIFE AND MISTRY
• CHURCH MEMBERS WALK OUT AS GAY PASTOR SAYS HIS HBAND IS PREGNANT
• GAY GA. MEGA-CHURCH PASTOR REFLECTS ON YEAR OF G OUT
• FOR SOME BLACK PASTORS, ACCEPTG GAY MEMBERS MEANS LOSG OTHERS

ATLANTA CHURCH FIRST LADY’S HBAND AND SON E OUT AS GAY

She recently penned a eply personal memoir, The Gay Preacher’s Wife: How My Gay Hband Denstcted My Life and Renstcted My Fah. Meredh, who is now an openly gay pastor and leadg a ngregatn of over 1K members —predomantly lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr. When asked if she missed all the signs that her former hband is gay, she said, “Y, I miss[ed] them.

While she was livg her life, she also missed the signs that her middle son, who is now the mister of mic at the church where his father misters, is also gay.

MARRIED ATLANTA PASTOR SPEAKS OUT ABOUT LEAK OF HIS GAY SEX TAPE | WATCH

Atlanta gay pastor’s ex-wife on healg after he left her for a man. *Pastor Dwayne Dawks of the Lears Trag Conference Atlanta is speakg out about his gay sex tape leak. Stt, Dawks is a married father of three kids “who equently nmned acts of homosexualy om the pulp, ” the outlet wr.

But those lears, he said, were often surround by LGBTQ members who ma the church’s choirs livelier, helped wh llectns and filled the Oliver Cly Allen Weatherspoon for TODAYThose ​​dynamics, bed wh sermons that cried non-heterosexuali as abomatns, are part of the reason Allen se himself as more than a lear of a Black or gay than a preacher, Allen scrib himself as an abolnist whose job is to spread a msage of eedom and acceptance, two elements that he argu are the fundamentals of Christian belief.

“J Christ didn’t say anythg about gay people and said everythg about liberatg people. I didn’t know a way out, bee I hated myself, bee that’s what I was tght, to hate a person who was gay.

ATLANTA GAY PASTOR’S EX-WIFE ON HEALG AFTER HE LEFT HER FOR A MAN

Asadi said his fay ti to the church did not shelter him om stigmas as people began to realize he was gay. ” McKney said that although the majory of church members are LGBTQ, Allen’s sermons have “nothg to do wh whether or not you’re gay or straight. “People n get the love and re that they would normally get om their grandmother or their ntie, ” Allen Allen put , Visn mols a fay dynamic the same way unrground ballroom muni, gay dive bars and gay villag beme surrogate spac for those who were shunned for g out s past.

… What did J really say about homosexualy? What was J’ msage about gays? I prayed my entire young life for God to send me a hband–God Always answers my prayers–why did I end up marryg a gay man?

In Meredh’s eply personal memoir, The Gay Preacher’s Wife: How My Gay Hband Denstcted My Life and Renstcted My Fah, rears will fd out how a woman’s broken heart is mend by fah.

THE CALL AND RPONSE OF A GAY BISHOP: HOW THE TTH TRANSFORMED DENNIS MEREDH'S LIFE AND MISTRY

He told me he wanted to live the rt of his life as a gay man, ” she shar. The Gay Preacher’s Wife: How My Gay Hband Denstcted My Life and Renstcted My Fah is now available for purchase. Atlanta church first lady’s hband and son e out as gay.

ATLANTA (CBS/AP) New pictur have surfaced of Bishop Eddie Long, proment pastor of a 25, 000-member megachurch outsi Atlanta, as a third man has e forward accg the anti-gay advote of ercg him to sex.

Long's church was among those named 2007 a Senate mtee's vtigatn to a half-dozen Christian mistri over their has lled for a natnal ban on same-sex marriage and his church unsels gay members to bee straight.

CHURCH MEMBERS WALK OUT AS GAY PASTOR SAYS HIS HBAND IS PREGNANT

There had been mblgs among members of Meredh’s ngregatn that the charismatic pastor who was married to former First Lady Lydia Meredh for 27 years and bore three sons, was gay, or at the very least bisexual. “For everyone that left, 15 to 20 people joed bee I was the only Ain Amerin pastor the cy that was sayg 's not a s to be gay. A whole bunch of gay people started jog Tabernacle, jt drov started jog the church, and I was like, well, what the heck is gog on?

GAY GA. MEGA-CHURCH PASTOR REFLECTS ON YEAR OF G OUT

The ans got upset wh me bee they said, ‘you're turng this church gay. Their middle son, Mih, a gifted mician, is also gay.

Meredh tells The Reckong that he me out to Lydia 12 years to their marriage as bisexual, although today he now intifi as gay. I remember him sayg, ‘I never thought I uld be a pastor and be openly gay until I met you. 3 /Christian Newswire/ -- In an effort to apologize to the homosexual muny for the way relig people too often target and treat gay dividuals, pastors Craig Gross and Jason Harper shared the unprejudiced and unndnal love of J to people at the 39th annual Atlanta Pri Ftival, held this past weekend.

"We me to simply say we are sorry for the way people relig circl have attacked gay people and ed them to feel like outsts, " said Gross, founr of TripleXChurch, a Web work that helps those stgglg wh pornography and workers the adult entertament dtry. They hand out whe bracelets scribed wh the words "We are Sorry" and pk bracelets that said "It's Te, He do, " referrg to J' love for gay dividuals. "The gay muny has been sgled out and nmned by people who have hijacked the J of Scripture, " said Harper, director of muny outreach at Capal Christian Center Sacramento, Calif.

FOR SOME BLACK PASTORS, ACCEPTG GAY MEMBERS MEANS LOSG OTHERS

Outreach to the gay muny and to other groups that the Church often nsirs taboo is not new terrory for Gross and Harper.