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Contents:

• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• 6 THGS PASTORS SHOULD PREACH ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
• THE GOSPEL FOR A GAY FRIEND
• 'QUEER EYE'S' FAB 5 HELPS GAY FISHTOWN PASTOR FD HIMSELF
• CATHOLIC PRIT OUT AS GAY, GETS A STANDG OVATN
• HOE PASS BILL ON PASTORS' RIGHTS TO REFE GAY MARRIAG

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.

6 THGS PASTORS SHOULD PREACH ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.

In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.

He owned gay newspapers Hoton, Atlanta, New York and Washgton. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.

THE GOSPEL FOR A GAY FRIEND

“I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om. Pieters spoke an emotnal Kisby for The New York TimPublished July 19, 2023Updated July 21, 2023In 1985, when fear and homophobia were still drivg much of the nversatn surroundg AIDS, the Rev. Stephen Pieters, a gay pastor who had the disease, was a cidly different May, at the St.

Pieters spoke forthrightly about beg gay and about his illns, and Ms. ”In the years sce, that terview has been creded wh helpg to change at least some viewers’ perceptns of gay people, AIDS and fah.

Some televangelists had been implyg or statg outright that AIDS was dive retributn for homosexualy. He was spokman, Harlan Boll, said the e was a sepsis Pieters, who had ntued his mistry and sce 1994 had performed wh the Gay Men’s Chos of Los Angel, was lookg forward to the publitn next year of his book, “Love Is Greater Than AIDS: A Memoir of Survival, Healg, and Hope. So many gay men of my generatn did not get to grow old.

'QUEER EYE'S' FAB 5 HELPS GAY FISHTOWN PASTOR FD HIMSELF

”When he was a teenager, he said, he regnized that he was gay and talked to his pastor at a Congregatnal church about .

’”He said that after graduatg om Northwtern Universy 1974 wh a bachelor’s gree speech, he joed the Metropolan Communy Church Chigo and felt lled to a mistry foced on gay people, that church’s ma dience.

CATHOLIC PRIT OUT AS GAY, GETS A STANDG OVATN

“I’ve had so many people over the years e up to me and say, ‘I saw your terview live, bee my mother always had PTL on, and changed my life bee I realized I uld be gay and Christian at the same time, ’” he said. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 24 of the New York edn wh the headle: Steve Pieters, 70, Gay Pastor Whose Words Changed Hearts, Di. “I mented on our cy postg somethg about the gay pri month and I lerally was attacked by people who don’t even know me.

HOE PASS BILL ON PASTORS' RIGHTS TO REFE GAY MARRIAG

” David Bh, 61, a real tate veloper, said, “There’s a terrible misnceptn that Christians hate gay people. Some LGBTQ activists Hong Kong have lled for the Gay Gam to be ncelled. Hong Kong is safe to vis, Gay Gam team tells foreigners worryg about natnal secury law.

| (Photo: Facebook/Stan Mchell)A progrsive evangelil pastor whose 2015 pro-gay marriage announcement led to a steep cle his church's membership now says that he believ he should have given his church more put on the announcement than he Stan Mchell, founr and head of the Nashville area-based GracePote Church, garnered natnal headl early 2015 when he said that his church would support and regnize gay the announcement, GracePote has seen a steep cle worship attendance, membership and fancial an terview wh The Christian Post on Thursday, Mchell explaed that he felt his posn of foundg pastor gave him more "equy" than he should have had when me to cisns.

Unrstandably, pastors and other spirual lears often have difficulty addrsg the subject of gay marriage.