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GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY

The pastor of an Atlanta 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. * gay pastor in atlanta ga *

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. 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.

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

By Victor Ochieng, Deadle: It me as a shock when news me out that the pastor of Atlanta’s Ltle Rock Missnary Church Of God was gay. The onle muny me out guns blazg, quotg the scriptur as they rebed the pastor. However, that wasn’t enough to make members of the church walk out or even * gay pastor in atlanta ga *

""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. What did change is that I’m not aaid of anybody thkg that I’m gay.

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

It was the first time that I uld buy somethg like that and I wasn’t worried that somebody would see me buyg and thk I was gay.

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

I remember when I was still closeted and I didn’t want to buy any Angela Jolie movi bee I was nvced that people would see that I owned and know that I was gay. A few months ago, I was ved out to lunch by a gay pastor Hoton. CITN Midtown is not a gay church.

It’s gay, straight, black, whe, male, female… ’s the type of diverse church that I’m ed to anyway.

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

The people know I’m gay and they are stg here wh their Bibl open their laps and they’re lovg God and they’re worshippg and the thgs are not mutually exclive. When people brg up Levic gay passag to me, I say, “Great! When I me out and my pastors were nontg me about my s of beg gay, I explaed to them that havg sex wh my hband (at the time) was very unnatural for me.

Gay people should be given the same urty. Nobody else has any rponsibily before God to prevent me om beg gay.

ATLANTA GAY PASTORS BACK ON LUTHERAN CLERGY ROSTER

” I really haven’t addrsed the gay Christian watchdog groups that are gog after me bee I’ve been a lot of fodr for them for months now. There’s only an obssn wh homophobia.

J didn’t say a thg about homosexualy but He said a lot about love.

I was watchg the betiful (gay) upl, who have probably never taken munn together, be able to hold hands and love each other and e to the table of the Lord. 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.

A GEIA CHURCH, KICKED OUT OF THE SBC FOR ALLOWG GAY MEMBERS, WANTS TO MAKE SURE 'EVERYBODY’S WELE'

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.

10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI

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.

Atlanta gay pastor’s ex-wife on healg after he left her for a man. … What did J really say about homosexualy?

THE GEIA PASTOR WHO WELED GAY MEMBERS ON GETTG KICKED OUT OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN

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.

He told me he wanted to live the rt of his life as a gay man, ” she shar.

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