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Contents:
- GAY, EX-HILLSONG LEAR SPEAKS ABOUT EXPERIENCE WH UNCLEAR POLICY
- SHAMEFUL HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY MEGACHURCH HILLSONG AS DISGRACED FOUNR RIGNS AMID MISNDUCT CLAIMS
- NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE ORDAS OPENLY GAY PASTOR
- HILLSONG'S BRIAN HOTON 'CORRECTS' REPORT THAT 'OPENLY GAY COUPLE' LEADS NYC CHURCH CHOIR, INSISTS STANCE ON HOMOSEXUALY 'ABSOLUTELY' HAS NOT CHANGED
- HILLSONG'S BRIAN HOTON ON GAY MARRIAGE: 'I BELIEVE THE WRGS OF PL ARE CLEAR ON THIS SUBJECT'
- MEGACHURCH PASTOR SIGNALS SHIFT TONE ON GAY MARRIAGE
- 'QUEER EYE'S' FAB 5 HELPS GAY FISHTOWN PASTOR FD HIMSELF
- TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
- OPENLY GAY LUTHERAN PASTOR ORDAED
- HOTON WHDRAWS LEGAL MAND TO SEE PASTORS' SERMONS GAY RIGHTS BATTLE
GAY, EX-HILLSONG LEAR SPEAKS ABOUT EXPERIENCE WH UNCLEAR POLICY
Hillsong Church foundg pastor Brian Hoton sists that his Sydney-based megachurch has ma "absolutely no change" regard to s "stance on homosexualy and gay marriage," after a cril blog post claimed that two engaged openly gay men were leadg Hillsong NYC's choir. * houston gay pastor *
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SHAMEFUL HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY MEGACHURCH HILLSONG AS DISGRACED FOUNR RIGNS AMID MISNDUCT CLAIMS
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NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE ORDAS OPENLY GAY PASTOR
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I knew God loved me and created me as a gay man. Hillsong tly lov people, I believe that wholeheartedly, but by not beg clear about their beliefs [and l] on homosexualy, ends up hurtg the same people they are tryg to love.
For many years, Hillsong evad the qutn of s stance on LGBT+ people, but 2013, Brian Hoton, which preachg the UK, addrsed what he lled “the gay suatn”.
HILLSONG'S BRIAN HOTON 'CORRECTS' REPORT THAT 'OPENLY GAY COUPLE' LEADS NYC CHURCH CHOIR, INSISTS STANCE ON HOMOSEXUALY 'ABSOLUTELY' HAS NOT CHANGED
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The sermon seemed tentatively posive towards LGBT+ people, but 2015, Hoton published a blog post lled “Do I Love Gay People? He wrote that while he “lov and r” about all people, “I also live by my own nvictns, and hold to tradnal Christian thought on gay liftyl and gay marriage. “The wrgs of the apostle Pl scripture on the subject of homosexualy are also clear… Hillsong Church wel ALL people but do not affirm all liftyl.
HILLSONG'S BRIAN HOTON ON GAY MARRIAGE: 'I BELIEVE THE WRGS OF PL ARE CLEAR ON THIS SUBJECT'
We are a gay welg church but we are not a church that affirms a gay liftyle.
MEGACHURCH PASTOR SIGNALS SHIFT TONE ON GAY MARRIAGE
”, published the Journal of Femist Studi Relign, Marn Maddox pats a picture of Hillsong as a place where sex and genr are strictly bary, and scrib the church as “an tensely homophobic environment”. Gay former pastor Anthony Venn-Brown, who mistered at Hills Christian Life Centre, now works wh LGBT+ people om Evangelil backgrounds and found Ambassadors and Bridge Builrs Internatnal (ABBI), which works wh church to bee LGBT-affirmg. In a rearch paper on Hillsong and the “ex-gay” movement, Venn-Brown discs what seems to be the first rerd of anti-LGBT+ sentiment surroundg Hillsong.
In 1986, Sy Rogers, “former homosexual” and then print of the ex-gay anisatn Exod, was ved to preach at Frank Hoton’s Christian Life Centre. In the months afterwards, an ex-gay mistry was formed at Christian Life Centre lled Ex.
'QUEER EYE'S' FAB 5 HELPS GAY FISHTOWN PASTOR FD HIMSELF
But one former pastor is reported to have told Venn-Brown this wasn’t bee they didn’t believe nversn, but allegedly bee they were worried that gatherg too many ex-gays together would rult an avalanche of hook-ups. “I was enuraged to exercise to enhance my masculy, we prayed the mons off my back and I was sent to an outsi mister for unsellg who had a specialisatn homosexualy and more earth shattergly for me child sex offenrs. In the years that followed, multiple LGBT+ former Hillsong members spoke out about beg referred to nversn unsellors and ex-gay programm, and some of the programm claimed to have good relatnships wh Hillsong.
TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
In 2011, Hoton banned referrals to ex-gay or nversn therapy unsellors, and 2015 Hillsong Internatnal Learship College removed s ban on homosexualy s of ethics.
If Alan Chambers, who was the Print of the largt “ex-gay” anisatn the world n do , so n Hillsong.
OPENLY GAY LUTHERAN PASTOR ORDAED
Graner, 57, is openly gay. Church law prohibs ordatn of “self-avowed practicg” homosexuals, but nference officials noted her sgle stat and said she qualified for ordatn. It me not long after she disvered she was gay.
“And I thought naively that by the time I got through high school and llege and semary, there wouldn’t be any problem wh beg an openly gay ordaed person The Uned Methodist Church. The Uned Methodist Church officially prevents “self-avowed practicg” homosexuals om servg as clergy.
Graner, while outspoken about beg gay, has been sgle sce her 28-year-partnership wh another woman end some years back. North Texas Conference Bishop Michael McKee said the nference’s Board of Ordaed Mistry and Clergy Conference were wh the Book of Disciple to approve her ordatn, given that she’s self-avowed but non-practicg her homosexualy.
HOTON WHDRAWS LEGAL MAND TO SEE PASTORS' SERMONS GAY RIGHTS BATTLE
Other nferenc have ordaed openly gay persons, and Mounta Sky Area Bishop Karen Oliveto, a lbian married to another woman, was elected and nsecrated a bishop 2016. Graner, 57, is believed to be the first openly gay person ordaed an elr eher of the southern jurisdictns of The Uned Methodist Church.
Church law prohibs ordatn of “self-avowed practicg” homosexuals, but Graner is sgle, a fact North Texas Conference officials noted when asked about her ordatn. But Graner is glad her ordatn me this year, as The Uned Methodist Church has seen wispread ristance to 2019 General Conference, which strengthened official rtrictns agast same-sex unns and ordatn of self-profsed practicg homosexuals.