One of the groups aimg to take the Southern Baptist Conventn a more nservative directn ntu to sound the alarm about liberalism the natn’s largt non-Catholic Christian nomatn and now has attacked one of the ins of the last “nservative rurgence” the SBC bee his son is gay.
Contents:
- FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
- MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
- GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
- NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
- APPEALS URT TO REVIEW VIMEO'S 'TARGETED' LETN OF EX-GAY CHRISTIAN'S ACUNT
- JEROME GAY
FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
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Gay, Senr Pastor.
Pastor Jim Gay was born and raised the Moxham area of Johnstown. 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. 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
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. * pastor jim 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.
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.
GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
I want the very bt for my gay iends. 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.
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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.
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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. 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.
JEROME GAY
“To be openly gay wh my partner, to take part holy munn is a blsg, ” Bat said.