Texas pastor says gay people should be 'shot the back of the head' shockg sermon

Contents:

• GAY PASTOR FORCED OUT OF LUTHERAN CHURCH THE '80S BE 1ST TO BE RESTATED
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU
• A PRODIGAL CHURCH RE-WEL A GAY PASTOR
• HOW A JAM FRAN MOVIE GOT AN 'EX-GAY' PASTOR'S 'CONVERSN' WRONG
• TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
• ROB FORD ENDORS, IS ENDORSED BY PRI-DISSG, ANTI-GAY-MARRIAGE PASTOR. HILARY ENSU
• BRENT HAWK, PASTOR WHO OFFICIATED CANADA’S FIRST GAY MARRIAG, RETIR
• CANADIAN AUTHORI USE HOMOPHOBIC LAW TO CHARGE GAY PASTOR, LGBT RIGHTS ACTIVIST
• ALL INCLIVE: JU PRIT TALKS ABOUT THE GAY CHURCH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
• REACTN: TORONTO POLICE CRICIZED FOR SHUTTG DOWN PREACHER AT GAY PRI PARA

GAY PASTOR FORCED OUT OF LUTHERAN CHURCH THE '80S BE 1ST TO BE RESTATED

The 66-year-old pastor was first ordaed to the Evangelil Lutheran Church Canada (ELCIC) 1978, but was forced to leave the '80s after g out as a gay man. A few years later, he reached out to ELCIC to ask if he uld be placed a new parish — one that would regnize and accept him as a gay man. In 1988, the bishops issued a statement that "self-clared and practisg homosexuals" uld not be ordaed as pastors, and those who were already ordaed would not be permted to head up a statement was ratified the followg year as official church policy at the natnal level.

This se rults the rights of gay and lbian upl beg regnized and their sexual orientatn beg read to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Brent Hawk, wearg a bulletproof vt, weds a gay uple and a lbian uple. Two gay upl kiss followg a weddg ceremony a Toronto church, on Jan.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED PRO LEAGU

In the centre is Reverend Brent CLARK/RtersThe well-known Toronto pastor who officiated Canada's first legally regnized same-sex marriag is liverg his fal sermon Brent Hawk, who is also known for officiatg Jack Layton's state funeral 2011, is retirg after servg as senr pastor at the Metropolan Communy Church of Toronto for more than 40 2001, the openly gay pastor married two same-sex upl g a legal loophole: the ancient Christian tradn of publishg the banns of the time, same-sex upl uld not obta marriage licenc om municipal clerks, but the Ontar Marriage Act allowed upl to be granted a licence if their nam were published and read out at church for three Sundays a when the upl tried to have the marriag registered wh the provce, upl and the church sued, and the Ontar Court of Appeal eventually regnized their unns a 2003 lg that paved the way for same-sex marriage to be legalized across the was appoted to the Orr of Canada 2007 for his work advotg for gay will be succeed as senr pastor by Rev.

TORONTO — An openly gay Toronto pastor who officiated the state funeral for former NDP lear Jack Layton and also performed Canada’s first same-sex marriag has been charged nnectn wh allegatns of sexual asslt Nova Stia datg back to the 1970s. A pastor was arrted and removed on bail after he was prent Toronto’s Gay Village. He n be seen followed around, elbowed, and yelled vio shows Lynn tellg the Church and Wellley neighbourhood’s Sergeant Henry Dyck, who is openly homosexual, he has a right to preach on the siwalk and objectg to his arrt.

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A PRODIGAL CHURCH RE-WEL A GAY PASTOR

After votg most of his life to gay activism, Glatze publicly nounced homosexualy on a right-wg webse 2007, left his partner of nearly a , and beme an "ex-gay" pastor wrote he was "repulsed" by homosexualy and s "pornographic" nature. "I don't see people as gay anymore, " he told a New York Tim reporter 2011.

I Am Michael is set up as a story about a person who is makg a cisn—'s set up as a gay vs. If you look at the ex-gay movement and the power has over people, wh nversn therapy and those kds of thgs, 's ighteng to have a movie out there that tells people this kd of story about a nversn. In my view wasn't about gog om gay to straight, was about the evolutnary procs of mental breakdown.

Frankly, I don't re who a person sleeps wh, if you're gay one day and ci to sleep wh girls the next, that's great for me, don't md that at all. The problem was that Michael did so publicly, and he ma very negative statements about beg gay. He said that his gay relatnships had ma him sick and would make him go to hell, those kds of thgs.

HOW A JAM FRAN MOVIE GOT AN 'EX-GAY' PASTOR'S 'CONVERSN' WRONG

On the other si you might thk this is the moment for him to start the journey back—not to beg gay—but a journey back to where he uld exist a healthy way society whout makg problematic posts on a blog, or givg an terview to some Christian right fundamentalist anizatn that really wanted to tell his story of nversn. Our primary missn, and evolved, began after I wrote a book lled the XY Survival Gui, for gay teens.

TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON

We started our own webse Young Gay Ameri, went on the road, and terviewed kids to show you don't have to move to New York or San Francis, or some big cy to be out and gay. Unrstandably, pecially people who have suffered om nversn or the ex-gay movement.

A Texas baptist church — labeled an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has ed outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "led up agast the wall and shot the back of the head. " Aw read several passag om the Bible and nmned homosexualy as a s. At one pot, he told the ngregatn that gay people "are dangero to society" and said that "all homosexuals are pedophil.

ROB FORD ENDORS, IS ENDORSED BY PRI-DISSG, ANTI-GAY-MARRIAGE PASTOR. HILARY ENSU

""I’m not sayg that every sgle homosexual that’s alive right now has mted that act wh a child already bee uld be they haven’t had the opportuny yet and they will at some pot later their life, " he said. Aw told the room that he thks the "solutn for the homosexual 2022" is the ath penalty.

Every sgle homosexual our untry should be charged wh a crime. The abomatn of homosexualy that they have, they should be nvicted a lawful trial.

"Enuragg the executn of gay persons is not protected speech.

BRENT HAWK, PASTOR WHO OFFICIATED CANADA’S FIRST GAY MARRIAG, RETIR

The church's ma pastor, Jonathan Shelley, fend Aw sayg a lengthy statement that Ameri has weakened "punishments for homosexualy. Rob Ford endors, is endorsed by pri-dissg, anti-gay-marriage pastor. The Ford mpaign is rpondg to all this by (accurately) sayg that mayors don’t marry people, and Ford n’t overturn feral law allowg gay marriag.

• Ford’s endorsement of pastor for uncil stok fear among gays [Globe and Mail].

CANADIAN AUTHORI USE HOMOPHOBIC LAW TO CHARGE GAY PASTOR, LGBT RIGHTS ACTIVIST

• Gays n wed if they want: Ford [Natnal Post]. A proment Canadian gay-rights activist is proclaimg his nocence after beg charged nnectn wh an cint more than 40 years ago, which he allegedly had illegal sexual ntact wh a mor. He's led the MCC of Toronto sce 1977 and has a long history of activism, cludg a hunger strike to prott police raids of gay bathho 1981.

Daily Xtra reports that the charge of gross cency, which is no longer on the books, historilly was ed almost exclively to prosecute gay men. All Inclive: Ju Prit Talks About the Gay Church the Catholic Church | Joseph Sciambra.

ALL INCLIVE: JU PRIT TALKS ABOUT THE GAY CHURCH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

All Inclive: Ju Prit Talks About the Gay Church the Catholic Church. J., an Associate Profsor of Systematic Theology at the Ju’s Regis College Toronto, gave a lecture scribg the history of, and his volvement wh, the gay-affirmative outreach of All Inclive Mistri (AIM).

Loted the Archdce of Toronto, at Our Lady of Lours Parish, AIM is a dissint group that trac s origs back to the pro-gay marriage Digny mistry.

J., which clud, among other thgs, “that homosexualy is a natural variatn on the e of sex. Part of the Digny “Statement of Posn and Purpose” (adopted 1985) clus the followg: “As members of Digny, we are Christ’s discipl, a lbian and gay People of God the Body of Christ, part of the Catholic tradn. In 1986, an effort to fally feat the growg fluence of pro-gay advocy groups wh the Church, the Vatin released a stgg Letter to the Bishops on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons; although no particular group was mentned, Digny certaly f the parameters of a qutnable apostolate:.

REACTN: TORONTO POLICE CRICIZED FOR SHUTTG DOWN PREACHER AT GAY PRI PARA

The immediate effect of the Letter was the cisn by several Amerin bishops to orr that Digny no longer be allowed to hold meetgs at Catholic parish; the sendary effect of the Letter was the necsy for many “gay” iendly parish, or Catholic gay affirmg mistri, to superficially rearrange their prospective anizatns, remove any implic support of Digny, bee ls polilly active, while still matag the same set of re beliefs; probably the three most flagrant exampl are Most Holy Reemer Parish San Francis and St. Pl the Apostle Church New York Cy as well as the “official” Archdce of Los Angel outreach to those wh same sex-attractn: The Catholic Mistry wh Lbian and Gay Persons; but, there are gay-affirmg parish almost every major cy wh the Uned Stat as evinced by a list of gay-iendly parish mataed by New Way Mistry.