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.
Contents:
- GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
- CHURCH MEMBERS WALK OUT AS GAY PASTOR SAYS HIS HBAND IS PREGNANT
- GAY GA. MEGA-CHURCH PASTOR REFLECTS ON YEAR OF G OUT
- ATLANTA CHURCH FIRST LADY’S HBAND AND SON E OUT AS GAY
- ATLANTA GAY PASTOR’S EX-WIFE ON HEALG AFTER HE LEFT HER FOR A MAN
- ATLANTA GAY PASTORS BACK ON LUTHERAN CLERGY ROSTER
- A GEIA CHURCH, KICKED OUT OF THE SBC FOR ALLOWG GAY MEMBERS, WANTS TO MAKE SURE 'EVERYBODY’S WELE'
- 10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI
- THE GEIA PASTOR WHO WELED GAY MEMBERS ON GETTG KICKED OUT OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN
GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
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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.
""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.
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 *
"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. 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. 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.
GAY GA. MEGA-CHURCH PASTOR REFLECTS ON YEAR OF G OUT
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. 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 CHURCH FIRST LADY’S HBAND AND SON E OUT AS GAY
” 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.
ATLANTA GAY PASTOR’S EX-WIFE ON HEALG AFTER HE LEFT HER FOR A MAN
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.
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.
ATLANTA GAY PASTORS BACK ON LUTHERAN CLERGY ROSTER
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. Atlanta gay pastor’s ex-wife on healg after he left her for a man.
A GEIA CHURCH, KICKED OUT OF THE SBC FOR ALLOWG GAY MEMBERS, WANTS TO MAKE SURE 'EVERYBODY’S WELE'
… 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. He told me he wanted to live the rt of his life as a gay man, ” she shar.
10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI
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. Both men also said they were grateful for the support om the Atlanta lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny and will always nsir servg as grand marshals of the Atlanta Pri Para 2007 as a signifint moment their liv.
ELCA policy at the time prohibed gay pastors to be same-sex relatnships. In 2009, the ELCA Churchwi Assembly lled for revisns to allow for gay pastors to be same-sex, monogamo, lifelong relatnships.
She moved to Atlanta a ago, when she was 22, where she me out as gay, another blow, she was told, her journey to bee a pastor. Even wh our own parish, we hold the stori of gay men who would have ma great prits, but they were not allowed to do so bee of they were hont and unapologetic about their sexual orientatn.
THE GEIA PASTOR WHO WELED GAY MEMBERS ON GETTG KICKED OUT OF THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTN
“I’ve always appreciated the amount of fah groups that are reprented booths and the para, but I knew that the story of how, pecially, male Christian nomatns me to the place of acceptg gay people was much more plited than the floats the para display, ” she said. “I hope people vis and walk away feelg a fuller story of the gay experience. 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. Asadi said his fay ti to the church did not shelter him om stigmas as people began to realize he was gay.