10 Most Wildly Anti-Gay Preachers Ameri

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

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

"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.

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.

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

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.

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

Nobody else has any rponsibily before God to prevent me om beg 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.

ATLANTA GAY PASTORS BACK ON LUTHERAN CLERGY ROSTER

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.

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.

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

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? 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. The Gay Preacher’s Wife: How My Gay Hband Denstcted My Life and Renstcted My Fah is now available for purchase.

10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI

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.

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

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.