Anti-gay pastor rigns after allegedly 'beg wh prostut'

Contents:

• HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
• MICHIGAN PASTOR RIGNS AFTER SHARG PHOTOS ON GAY DATG APP
• LUTHERANS OFFER WARM WELE TO GAY PASTORS
• A TERRIBLE SERMON: PATRIARCH OF MOSW BLS “METAPHYSIL” WAR AGAST THE “WORLD OF GAY PRIS”
• TEXAS PASTOR CALLS FOR GAY PEOPLE TO BE SHOT THE HEAD
• ANTI-GAY PASTOR RIGNS AFTER ALLEGEDLY 'BEG WH PROSTUT'

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

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Social media ers ially shared vio of the church engulfed flam wh posts ntag homophobic rhetoric and cricizg the church’s stance on LGBTQ+ issu. “A church Boston where homosexual upl who were nductg a weddg set’s on fire after beg stck by lightng.

MICHIGAN PASTOR RIGNS AFTER SHARG PHOTOS ON GAY DATG APP

“Church burnt down by a lighteng, Boston, In the USA, durg a marriage ceremony of homosexual uple. Interracial marriage, he has said, was opposed by J bee volv weddg a vio of a sermon posted to YouTube 2018, Mejia said of gay men, "When you seem someone who you know is a [expletive] full-blown, they jt look like a sodome, they’re dog all the acts, you n see and say, oh okay, they were rejected a long time ago. 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.

He says he’s been gay and celibate the entire time. 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.

LUTHERANS OFFER WARM WELE TO GAY PASTORS

“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.

“I really believe that J lov gay people, and I want evangelil church to learn to say that and believe that, ” he said. Gay pastor Greg Johnson is fightg for the future of the PCA. 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?

A TERRIBLE SERMON: PATRIARCH OF MOSW BLS “METAPHYSIL” WAR AGAST THE “WORLD OF GAY PRIS”

”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.

She has two gay brothers, a lbian sister and a transgenr son.

TEXAS PASTOR CALLS FOR GAY PEOPLE TO BE SHOT THE HEAD

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, labeled First Works Baptist Church a hate group 2019 for s anti-LGBT onle petn llg for the mayor of El Monte to force the First Works Baptist Church out of the cy has garnered over 15, 000 reports and on social media, Mejia strongly oppos gay marriage. Earlier this year, Towne View lost s relatnship wh the Southern Baptist Conventn (SBC) and almost half s membership, along wh their du, as a rult of Conrad’s cisn 2019 to accept a gay uple and their three children as members of Towne View.

Would Reynolds, as an openly gay man, be weled to Towne View wh his partner, John McClanah, and their three children? He and McClanah were eager to raise their sons, then ag 7, 9 and 11, the Southern Baptist tradn that meant so much to them, but unrstood the difficulty their fay would face fdg a ngregatn given the SBC’s stnch posn agast homosexualy. “When one of our church choos to affirm or endorse homosexual behavr through their fn of regenerate church membership, we have clearly e to a different unrstandg on what we believe is an sential doctre, ” JD Greear, SBC print and pastor of The Summ Church, said an email statement to CNN.

Brockton Bat, a 24-year-old om Dallas, Geia, said he and his partner have also found sanctuary wh Towne View, after years of stgglg to fd his place the church as an openly gay man. Bat said he began to really unrstand the church’s msagg on homosexualy after g out middle school to his parents, who took him to a unselor to “pray the gay away. “It was pafully clear the muny I was volved would not love me the same if I were to emphatilly say, ‘hey, I’m gay, ’ and this is how is, ” Bat said.

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

Conrad’s beliefs of acceptance were at the foreont of Easter servic this past weekend where he said the signifince of havg openly gay parishners such as Bat lead worship ls than two months after beg disfellowshipped was not lost on him. “To be openly gay wh my partner, to take part holy munn is a blsg, ” Bat said.

” The issue is whether practicg homosexualy is a behavr that should disqualify a person om the pastoral mistry. The unrepentant practice of homosexual behavr (like other ss) will exclu a person om the kgdom of God. Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God.