Reflectns om a Closeted Gay Pastor | The Center for Fah, Sexualy & Genr

Contents:

• TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
• HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
• A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
• FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
• REFLECTNS OM A CLOSETED GAY PASTOR
• 3 GAY PASTORS AMONG NOME FOR BISHOP
• CAN A PASTOR BE GAY
• PASTOR: HELP YOUR CONGREGATN NAVIGATE GAY PRI MONTH
• ANTI-GAY PASTOR RIGNS AFTER ALLEGEDLY 'BEG WH PROSTUT'
• 'QUEER EYE'S' FAB 5 HELPS GAY FISHTOWN PASTOR FD HIMSELF
• IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
• I'M A GAY, CELIBATE PASTOR OF A NSERVATIVE CHURCH. HERE'S A TRICK FOR -LATN.
• PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE
• MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
• 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 "led up agast the wall and shot the back of the head. At one pot, he told the ngregatn that gay people "are dangero to society" and said that "all homosexuals are pedophil.

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

""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. The abomatn of homosexualy that they have, they should be nvicted a lawful trial.

A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY

The church's ma pastor, Jonathan Shelley, fend Aw sayg a lengthy statement that Ameri has weakened "punishments for homosexualy. 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.

FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE

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.

REFLECTNS OM A CLOSETED GAY PASTOR

“I really believe that J lov gay people, and I want evangelil church to learn to say that and believe that, ” he said. 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. ”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. “My nstant fear is that somebody's gog to tell their kid, ‘Why n't you be one of the good gays like Greg Johnson?

3 GAY PASTORS AMONG NOME FOR BISHOP

”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. Vios: The Gay Pastor Wele YouTube channel offers 150+ vio clips of 12 gay pastors answerg up to 20 qutns about their experience arrivg on scene after beg hired by a church that never had an out gay pastor before.

CAN A PASTOR BE GAY

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“Openly Gay and Lbian Pastors Called by Predomantly Straight UCC Congregatns. The volunteer terviewe are 12 out-of-the-closet openly gay men who are full-time or retired clergy profsnals wh crentials good standg.

PASTOR: HELP YOUR CONGREGATN NAVIGATE GAY PRI MONTH

Almost all are the first out gay pastors hired by church not mographilly LGBT-pennt. The one exceptn is the first out gay man ordaed to mistry the Christian church.

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.

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

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.

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

Unfundamentalist Christians founr John Shore recently shared a letter om a gay Christian who is stgglg wh his sexualy and fah.

IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?

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.

Gay, Sr., is a man after the heart of God who is makg full proof of the mistry that God has lled him to as he profoundly operat the five-fold mistry gifts of the Spir. Bishop Gay is a product of Ssex County Public School System and a graduate of Richard Bland College.

I'M A GAY, CELIBATE PASTOR OF A NSERVATIVE CHURCH. HERE'S A TRICK FOR -LATN.

Bishop Gay has been preachg the Word of God for over 30 years, wh 25 of those years servg as the Senr Pastor of Higher Way Mistri - Petersburg Camp.

Bishop Gay wh an apostolic anotg, released om a spirual father wh an apostolic verg. God has given Bishop Gay a double portn of "His anotg, " and the anotg has been stroyg yok, breakg shackl, loosg bondag and settg souls ee.

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.

PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE

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.

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

MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY

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.

PREACHER ASKS GOD TO KILL GAY PEOPLE IN “SLOW, PAFUL DEATH”

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.

The Southern Baptist church pastor om Los Angel, California, announced 2014 he is 'gay affirmg' and had accepted his son's homosexualy. '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.

Gays started g phras like “g out of the closet” the 1960’s, the same when I was figurg out that I had this huge problem that I did not want, did not unrstand, and that I had no one wh whom to talk over. No one celebrated beg a queer 1967 – that’s the word they would have ed the time before the word “gay” entered my public school panns’ vobulary or my fay’s nversatns. The other people who really know me are my therapist – an atheist who saved my life --, iends a lol artistic muny where I have found some solace wrg fictn, my doctor, and a gay man my age who got divorced om his wife of almost forty years.