Garrard Conley's memoir of growg up as the gay son of a nservative Baptist preacher has been ma to a movie. He speaks wh NPR's Michel Mart.
Contents:
- TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
- A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
- ANTI-GAY PASTOR RIGNS AFTER ALLEGEDLY 'BEG WH PROSTUT'
- TOP 5 ANTI-GAY MISTERS ACCED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL
- PL RSHENBH, GAY BAPTIST PREACHER: “F—K ‘LOVE THE SNER, HATE THE S’”
- IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
- HISTORIC BAPTIST CHURCH'S NEW -PASTOR, A GAY MAN, SAYS LLG IS 'THE HONOR OF MY LIFE'
- BAPTIST PREACHER BREAKS RANKS ON GAY RIGHTS
- 10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI
- THE GEIA PASTOR WHO WELED GAY MEMBERS ON GETTG KICKED OUT OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN
- CHRISTIAN PREACHER ASKS GOD TO GIVE GAY PEOPLE A 'SLOW, PAFUL DEATH'
- PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”
TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
A Texas baptist church — labeled an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has ed outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "l * gay baptist preacher *
A Texas baptist church — labeled an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has ed outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "led up agast the wall and shot the back of the head.
" Aw read several passag om the Bible and nmned homosexualy as a s.
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 sexualy. * gay baptist preacher *
At one pot, he told the ngregatn that gay people "are dangero to society" and said that "all homosexuals are pedophil. ""I’m not sayg that every sgle homosexual that’s alive right now has mted that act wh a child already bee uld be they haven’t had the opportuny yet and they will at some pot later their life, " he said. Aw told the room that he thks the "solutn for the homosexual 2022" is the ath penalty.
ANTI-GAY PASTOR RIGNS AFTER ALLEGEDLY 'BEG WH PROSTUT'
Pastor Donnie Romero lled gays "scum of the earth" and appld the 2016 mass killg of gay people at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. * gay baptist preacher *
Every sgle homosexual our untry should be charged wh a crime. The abomatn of homosexualy that they have, they should be nvicted a lawful trial.
"Enuragg the executn of gay persons is not protected speech. The church's ma pastor, Jonathan Shelley, fend Aw sayg a lengthy statement that Ameri has weakened "punishments for homosexualy.
TOP 5 ANTI-GAY MISTERS ACCED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL
Bishop Eddie Long is not the first preacher who ranted agast homosexualy, who turn was acced of beg gay. There have been several others, all who have been acced of rryg out homosexual affairs the bedroom, while ragg agast gays the pulp. Here are 5 misters who preached agast homosexualy public yet were acced of dulgg homosexualy private. * gay baptist preacher *
First Baptist of Greenville is now ordag gay, transgenr misters. A former Southern Baptist Church has cid all are weled their pulp, gog so far as to orda gay and transgenr Baptist of Greenville, South Carola—the church home of the first Southern Baptist Conventn print—has taken a bold move "embracg the plexi of genr inty.
PL RSHENBH, GAY BAPTIST PREACHER: “F—K ‘LOVE THE SNER, HATE THE S’”
The Southern Baptist Conventn, the largt Prottant nomatn the Uned Stat, wh over 16 ln members, has discrimated agast gay and lbian people for more than a quarter-century. * gay baptist preacher *
"There were a few people who said, 'Are they gog to start llg the gay church town?
IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
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As the only anizatn solely voted to buildg the Welg and Affirmg movement wh the Baptist tradns, AWAB has a unique ll to be The Natnal Voice for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer, and Allied Baptists the US. 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. As I said before, Romans 1 is not about gay Christian boys or girls, but about idolaters wh darkened unrstandg. Another passage often quoted agast is 1 Corthians 6:9, wrongly translated as “homosexuals.
But Genis 19 no more nmns all homosexualy than Judg 19 nmns all heterosexualy. 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. 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.
HISTORIC BAPTIST CHURCH'S NEW -PASTOR, A GAY MAN, SAYS LLG IS 'THE HONOR OF MY LIFE'
Answer to a qutn about a preacher who says he ed to be gay. * gay baptist preacher *
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.
BAPTIST PREACHER BREAKS RANKS ON GAY RIGHTS
In a Facebook postg on Tuday, gay Baptist preacher Pl Rshenbh announced he was "done" when to "acmodatg relig hatred towards queer liv," cludg om "'rpectable' relig nomatns." * gay baptist preacher *
“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. “I personally believe that every homosexual is a pedophile … bee of this they should be removed om society. Bishop Eddie Long is not the first preacher who ranted agast homosexualy, who turn was acced of beg gay.
There have been several others, all who have been acced of rryg out homosexual affairs the bedroom, while ragg agast gays the pulp. Here are 5 misters who preached agast homosexualy public yet were acced of dulgg homosexualy private. Gee Rekers is a baptist mister and one of the Christian Right’s most proment anti-gay activists.
10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI
Is biblilly allowable for a pastor to be gay? Do beg gay disqualify a man om servg as a pastor? * gay baptist preacher *
He was on the board for the Natnal Associatn for Rearch & Therapy of Homosexualy, which tri to fd ways to “cure” homosexualy and ttified as a state wns favor of Florida’s gay adoptn ban trial.
Rekers was ught at an airport wh a gay prostute returng om a flight to Bermuda. Haggard would mpaign agast gay marriage and bash homosexualy Church. In 2006, a gay male prostute claimed that he had regular sex wh Haggard and also ed wh methamphetam.
Haggard would adm to beg gay and havg a relatnship wh a male church member. Eddie Long is another mister who would attack homosexualy public only to be acced of beg gay himself.
THE GEIA PASTOR WHO WELED GAY MEMBERS ON GETTG KICKED OUT OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN
Eddie Long would preach agast homosexualy and mistered “homosexual cur” to gays and lbians while cricizg gay people. The SPLC would label Eddie Long as “one of the most vilently homophobic black lears the religly based anti-gay movement.
Pl Crouch is the founr, Print and chairman of the anti-gay Try Broadstg Networkg. Dpe the fact that the Catholic Church views homosexualy as an unnatural s, Geoghan was acced of moltg over 130 young boys. The Southern Baptist Conventn, the largt Prottant nomatn the Uned Stat, wh over 16 ln members, has discrimated agast gay and lbian people for more than a quarter-century.
In a 1996 “Rolutn on a Christian Rponse to Homosexualy, ” the SBC clared that “even a sire to engage a homosexual relatnship is always sful, impure, gradg, shameful, unnatural, cent and perverted. In the 2000 Baptist Fah and Msage statement, the SBC equat "homosexualy" wh adultery and pornography, clarg, “In the spir of Christ, Christians should oppose … all forms of sexual immoraly, cludg adultery, homosexualy and pornography. The SBC lls on s members to a “love the sner but hate the s” approach and affirms the possibily of reorientatn om same-sex attractn and supports “ex-gay” mistri.
CHRISTIAN PREACHER ASKS GOD TO GIVE GAY PEOPLE A 'SLOW, PAFUL DEATH'
As the SBC webse stat: “Christians n, and should, mister to homosexuals a kd, yet firm manner.
The church should never turn s back on homosexuals who are searchg and seekg to heal the hurts wh their liv. Homosexualy is not a ‘valid alternative liftyle. The same remptn available to all sners is available to homosexuals.
It lled on "Southern Baptists not only to stand agast same-sex unns but to monstrate our love for those practicg homosexualy by sharg wh them the fivg and transformg power of the gospel of J Christ (1 Corthians 6:9-11).
PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”
In June 2010, a rolutn (On Homosexualy and the Uned Stat Milary) passed that stat: “we oppose changg current law to normalize the open prence of homosexuals the armed forc, and sist on keepg the fdg of Congrs that stas current law, which stat that even ‘the prence the armed forc’ of persons monstratg ‘a propensy or tent to engage homosexual acts’ creat ‘an unacceptable risk to...
Garrard Conley's memoir of growg up as the gay son of a nservative Baptist preacher has been ma to a movie. And he told her that I had nfsed that I was gay. And when dad took me to his bedroom and closed the door, he said, do you swear to God that you're not gay?