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Gay rights activists Md. announced this week they'd renew their mpaign to have the state regnize same sex marriag. But many relig lears are still volizg opposn to same sex marriage, and to learn where their efforts stand, host Michel Mart speaks wh Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., senr pastor of Hope Christian Church.

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IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?

Is biblilly allowable for a pastor to be gay? Do beg gay disqualify a man om servg as a pastor? * gay pastor debate *

Some people nsir themselv gay bee they are attracted to members of their own genr, even if they do not act on those attractns. So may be biblilly allowable for a pastor to nsir himself gay—that is, he stggl wh homosexual attractn—if he is mted to sexual pury, never acts on those sir, and never enurag anyone else to do so (see Romans 1:32).

CONSERVATIVE PODSTER, ALLIE BETH STUCKEY DTROYS GAY PASTOR ABORTN DEBATE

Pastor Donnie Romero lled gays "scum of the earth" and appld the 2016 mass killg of gay people at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. * gay pastor debate *

For the purpos of this article, we will fe gay as “practicg a homosexual liftyle.

This qutn of whether the Bible warrants a gay pastor was unheard of until the last uple of s. There was never any qutn wh the church about whether a practicg homosexual uld or should pastor a church. The sfulns of homosexualy has never been up for bate until our sexually exploive culture cid should be.

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

David Gura speaks wh Rev. Kimberly Stt about last week's meetg of the Uned Methodist Church's Council of Bishops and s impedg vote on whether to orda gay pastors. * gay pastor debate *

God’s Word is as clear on the s of homosexual behavr as has always been (Levic 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26–27; 1 Timothy 1:10; 1 Corthians 6:9). Homosexualy is clud often lists of wickedns and never validated any way Scripture. It is agast the Bible’s clear teachg for a pastor to be gay.

IN CHURCH ACROSS THE COUNTRY, FAR-RIGHT PASTORS PREACH ANTI-GAY HATE AND VLENCE

For nearly 20 years, Greg Johnson has served as a pastor to the ngregatn of Memorial Prbyterian Church St. Louis, which is part of the Prbyterian Church Ameri. Last year, the PCA attempted to ban clergy for intifyg as gay. * gay pastor debate *

Homosexual s is no different om any other that all s keeps om God. A pastor is a fallible human beg jt like those his ngregatn; so is biblilly allowable for him to stggle wh homosexual sir, adultero sir, greedy sir, priful sir, etc. A pastor who choos to live a homosexual liftyle is unf to gui a ngregatn and has missed the pot of what means to follow J (John 14:15, 23).

LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?

I'm jt a gay atheist kid who fell love wh J and end up the lead pastor one of the most nservative evangelil nomatns. * gay pastor debate *

Unls we are willg to forsake our s, cludg the s of homosexual behavr, we nnot be followers of J.

Jt as we nnot clare that is allowable for a pastor to actively pursue other ss, we nnot clare that is biblilly allowable for a pastor to be gay. Is biblilly allowable for a pastor to be gay? Do you thk gay people should bee Pastors?

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

A gay pastor a relatnship wh another man will face disciplary proceedgs for vlatg church l banng sex outsi marriage. * gay pastor debate *

Brandan Robertson has been the headl que a b the last year or so as he is an openly gay, self-scribed “pastor” who opposed tradnal, biblil theology while stallg himself as a biblil scholar and theologian.

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Donnie Romero, a Baptist pastor who has ma natnal headl for his vilently homophobic sermons, recently rigned om his Texas church after admtg he has been “a terrible hband and father. Courty Stedfast Baptist Church / YouTubeWhile Romero — who has pared LGBTQ people to pedophil, lled gays “scum of the earth” and appld the 2016 mass killg of gay people at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub — did not provi tails about his behavr, Steven Anrson, a pastor who joed Romero last week durg his rignatn sermon, shared sight on YouTube to his iend’s “grievo ss.

I'M A GAY, CELIBATE PASTOR OF A NSERVATIVE CHURCH. HERE'S A TRICK FOR -LATN.

Gay rights activists Md. announced this week they'd renew their mpaign to have the state regnize same sex marriag. But many relig lears are still volizg opposn to same sex marriage, and to learn where their efforts stand, host Michel Mart speaks wh Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr., senr pastor of Hope Christian Church. * gay pastor debate *

Shelley, like Anrson, said equentg prostut led to Romero’s rignatn, though Shelley add that he did not know the genr of the Romero, Shelley strongly nmns homosexualy.

“The bible mak clear that homosexuals should be put to ath acrdg to God's law, and at the foundg of Ameri that once was the law, ” he claimed. “I personally believe that every homosexual is a pedophile … bee of this they should be removed om society. Pl Peterson and Gregory Norman are Lutherans whose fah pels them to believe a lot of thgs — but not that gays and lbians mted relatnships should be pastors.

Delegat to the Prbyterian Church’s nventn Mneapolis earlier this month also addrsed homosexualy. A ltle more than half of the Prbyterian legat voted to shelve the proposal to refe marriage as beg between “two people” stead of between “a man and a woman, ” while 53 percent of them voted to allow noncelibate gays mted relatnships to serve as clergy.

PASTOR DEBAT MORAL ISSU OF GAY MARRIAGE

The bate ntu wh evangelil circl regardg acceptance of gay marriage. One pastor sayg that embracg is listeng to the Holy Spir while another matas God's standards have never changed and the Bible forbids . * gay pastor debate *

The issue of gay clergy fac more bate before n bee church policy. Nomatns have taken the step of fully endorsg gay marriage.

ELCA’s policy had allowed s ngregatns to ll homosexual pastors only if those pastors remaed celibate, but that changed Augt. “Gays or lbians would be weled here … but we believe that God is a transformg and lovg God, and that, through that, we all n change.

Universy Lutheran Church of the Epiphany Pastor Jayne Thompson has said homosexuals mted relatnships have served fahfully and well as pastors ngregatns across the ELCA for years.

PASTORS DEBATE: IS GOD OK WH GAY MARRIAGE?

* gay pastor debate *

Kimberly Stt about last week's meetg of the Uned Methodist Church's Council of Bishops and s impedg vote on whether to orda gay pastors. The Uned Methodist nomatn has over 6 ln members the Uned Stat, and they're divid over the qutn of ordag gay misters.

She left the church for seven years and me back to be s first Black, female, openly gay pastor, and she jos now om Phoenix.

CONSERVATIVE PODSTER, ALLIE BETH STUCKEY DTROYS GAY PASTOR ABORTN DEBATE

KIMBERLY SCOTT: Thank you, So this bate over ordag gay clergy has been gog on for a while, sce the late '60s. And then the other part was always send-gusg myself - whether or not I was supposed to be open about my sexual orientatn, whether or not I was supposed to play the game of don't ask, don't Jt so that I'm clear, is the church's official stance on homosexualy today ambiguo or is pretty clearly fed and you'd like to see changed?

PASTOR DEBAT MORAL ISSU OF GAY MARRIAGE

It clearly stat that you nnot be an openly-practicg homosexual and be ordaed the Uned Methodist Church. It also stat that although all human begs are of sacred worth, homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg.

S., church have gone beyond what the Book of Disciple says to make the church open and accsible to gay and lbian clergy like Do you know other pastors who aren't as open as you or haven't been able to be as open as you - have ma this choice to keep this important si of their liv quiet or secret om their ngregatns? The bate around homosexualy is not somethg that most Ain and third-world untri are - really re about.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY PASTOR DEBATE

I'm a gay, celibate pastor of a nservative church. Here's a trick for -latn. .

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