It is OK to be a Gay (Celibate) Pastor? - Texas Srerd

Contents:

• GAY PASTOR(S) A STRAIGHT CHURCH
• TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
• TEXAS PASTOR CALLS FOR GAY PEOPLE TO BE SHOT THE HEAD
• NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE ORDAS OPENLY GAY PASTOR
• THE LIBERTY CAFE IT IS OK TO BE A GAY (CELIBATE) PASTOR?
• ANTI-GAY PASTOR RIGNS AFTER ALLEGEDLY 'BEG WH PROSTUT'
• TEXAS PASTOR: GOD 'CHANGED' SERMON AFTER OBAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE ENDORSEMENT
• GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN
• PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE
• ANTI-GAY BAPTIST PASTOR STEPS DOWN OM TEXAS CHURCH AFTER ALLEGEDLY "BEG WH PROSTUT"
• FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
• TEXAS PASTOR CONMNS CY'S PRI CELEBRATN AND CALLS FOR EXECUTN OF GAY PEOPLE IN HORRIFIC COUNCIL MEETG SPEECH
• PASTOR SAID GAY PEOPLE ‘SHOULD BE SHOT BACK OF THE HEAD’ DURG SERMON
• GAY PASTOR APOLOGIZ AFTER ACCG WHOLE FOODS OF WRG SLUR ON CHOLATE CAKE

GAY PASTOR(S) A STRAIGHT CHURCH

Central Congregatnal UCC Dallas on Royal Lane lled s first gay pastor four years ago. To add to the racism he alt wh as a boy, Jordan said he was also stgglg wh his awakeng awarens of beg gay. He said the pastor at the church was “a pany man” who told Jordan uld ntue wh the church as long as he was an “unavowed” gay man — meang as long as he remaed closeted, and celibate.

But when Jordan cid to bee an “avowed” gay, the head pastor told him, “My llege roommate is gay, and he’s a UCC mister. So he went om what he lled the fear of beg gay to liberatn om self-hate, guilt and shame. And when the church’s members learned he was gay, Jordan said gay and lbian members troduced themselv and other members told him about their gay or lbian children or other relativ.

The fact that Jordan is gay hasn’t been much of an issue for his children, eher, he said.

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

Jordan said that although he rarely talked to his children about beg gay, he was glad his sense of social jtice had bbed off on them. 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.

TEXAS PASTOR CALLS FOR GAY PEOPLE TO BE SHOT 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.

NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE ORDAS OPENLY GAY PASTOR

""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. The church's ma pastor, Jonathan Shelley, fend Aw sayg a lengthy statement that Ameri has weakened "punishments for homosexualy. A pastor at a church Texas labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center livered a sermon llg for the ernment executn of LGBTQ+ folks, and 's not the first time he's ma such disturbg lls for his sermon entled, Why We Won't Shut Up, Dillon Aw of the Stedfast Baptist Church Hurst said gay men were predatory pedophil who have eher mted sex crim agast a child or jt haven't had the opportuny to do so yet, leadg him to the ncln that "We need to put the people to ath through the proper channels of the ernment.

THE LIBERTY CAFE IT IS OK TO BE A GAY (CELIBATE) PASTOR?

""What do God say is the answer, is the solutn for the homosexual 2022, here the New Ttament, here the book of Romans? "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, they should be sentenced to ath, they should be led up agast a wall and shot the back of the head.

""God's already led that murr, adultery, wchcraft, rape, btialy, and homosexualy are crim worthy of pal punishment, " he said. Stedfast Baptist Church's webse says the ernment should impose the ath penalty for homosexualy, but "Christians should not take the law to their own hands. It's an pennt church, not affiliated wh any larger Baptist has also produced a vio lled the Sodome Deceptn which purports to center the alleged dangers of the LGBTQ+ muny, but appears to nta ltle more than anti-gay ephets and threats.

""No homos will ever be allowed on this church as long as I'm the pastor here! Church law prohibs ordatn of “self-avowed practicg” homosexuals, but nference officials noted her sgle stat and said she qualified for ordatn.

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

“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. 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.

TEXAS PASTOR: GOD 'CHANGED' SERMON AFTER OBAMA'S GAY MARRIAGE ENDORSEMENT

Graner, 57, is believed to be the first openly gay person ordaed an elr eher of the southern jurisdictns of The Uned Methodist Church.

GAY FURRY HACKERS ARE TARGETG US STAT FOR PASSG ANTI-TRANS LEGISLATN

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. Rachel Bghman will appot Isabel Marquez and Ryan Wager, staff members at Oak Lawn UMC who rpectively intify as lbian and gay, whout the thorizatn of the North Texas Conference of the Uned Methodist act is nsired “civil disobedience” and fiance agast the church.

The North Texas Conference said a statement to The Dallas Morng News that they would not publicize why the appotments were nied appotments are a blow to Wager and Marquez, who, after years of alg wh the personal turmoil of their inti and the church, wanted to fully pursue their llg mistry at Oak Lawn left Christiany after g out as gay his 20s, but he found his way back to church after his father died. “I knew at the time that beg gay meant I uldn’t be a pastor, ” he said. Edlen Cowley, metro district supertennt for the North Texas Conference, plans to attend Sunday’s worship service at Oak Lawn UMC and has been ntact wh the church’s Uned Methodist Church has been at odds for s about s posn on sexualy and genr wh the church, specifilly regardg the ordatn and marriage of LGBTQ Uned Febary 2019, 53% of church lears and lay members voted to tighten the ban on LGBTQ marriag and that “the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg.

”Sce beg openly gay, Marquez said she faced ristance almost every facet of a Methodist church she once belonged to, which she said was fairly nservative. At a nvotn Louisville, he realized he wanted to be part of the church for the rt of his his 20s, Wager me out as gay, and his outlook on pursug mistry moved to the Oak Lawn neighborhood about ne years ago.

PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE

When his father died 2019, Wager said phed him to attend servic aga, even though his absence om church was vised New Paltz UMC, where he first began his fah journey, and noticed a gay pri flag above the door. “They have really — good fah — gone through every possible step, facg discrimatn along the way, knowg that there are those among who don’t value or see their role as legimate bee they are people who are the LGBTQ muny, ” Bghman North Texas Conference said they have been tentnal supportg the mistry of the LGBTQ muny; In 2019, the North Texas Conference ordaed an openly gay Rachel Bghman will be leadg an "act of civil disobedience" and appot Isabel Marquez and Ryan Wager after they were nied appotment by the North Texas Conference of the Uned Methodist Church.

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

ANTI-GAY BAPTIST PASTOR STEPS DOWN OM TEXAS CHURCH AFTER ALLEGEDLY "BEG WH PROSTUT"

On this week’s Liberty Cafe, we exame one form of this attack on God and the church: Si B Homosexualy and gay pastors. Well, we’re gog to talk about that, particularly as relat to homosexualy today, and how relat to the culture around . And, and so we’re gog to foc on today on homosexualy, bee as far as we know, and the culture the nceled culture today, that Christians who speak out agast some of the thgs that are gog on the culture today, whether ’s drag shows fay iendly drag shows, or gay marriage or anythg else, are often attacked, sometim physilly, more often through verbal attacks or beg nceled their jobs or their work or those kds of thgs the culture.

And so ’s really important for to have a clear picture of the perspective, the biblil perspective on homosexualy, heterosexualy, those kds of thgs.

FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE

So what’s been gog on , my nomatn is there’s been a lot of bate over what is known as si B, homosexualy, or otherwise known as beg a gay celibate Christian.

And the ncept is, ’s okay to be a gay Christian, as long as you’re celibate. But overture 15 talked about the problem we’re havg the PCA, specifilly about whether a gay Christian, somebody who scrib himself as a gay Christian intifi as a gay Christian.

TEXAS PASTOR CONMNS CY'S PRI CELEBRATN AND CALLS FOR EXECUTN OF GAY PEOPLE IN HORRIFIC COUNCIL MEETG SPEECH

So some nomatns have said, ’s okay to be a practicg homosexual. The problem is whether or not a gay celibate Christian, so to speak, or somebody who’s intifi that way says they’re gay, and that they’re celibate n be a pastor the PCA. Bee what that says that, basilly, if you intify as a gay Christian, you’re sayg, ultimately, that havg the kds of attractns to men or women, pendg on which way you’re gog there, there’s nothg sful about them, as long as you don’t act on them.

PASTOR SAID GAY PEOPLE ‘SHOULD BE SHOT BACK OF THE HEAD’ DURG SERMON

Maybe not specifilly about the gayns, but you know, for stance, lt, murr, right?

Same people who intify as same sex attracted Gay Christian om beg an elr or a pastor our nomatn. And if you’re an elr our church, and you believe that I don’t thk you have any more bs, beg an elr our church, than the person who’s scribg himself as, as homosexual.

GAY PASTOR APOLOGIZ AFTER ACCG WHOLE FOODS OF WRG SLUR ON CHOLATE CAKE

Men who scrib themselv as homosexuals, or maybe I didn’t say the first time.

But anyway, men who scribed themselv as homosexuals, even those who scribed themselv as homosexual and claimed to practice celibacy by reag om homosexual nduct are disqualified om holdg office the Prbyterian Church of Ameri. Well, jt like the lack of clary, on the gay issue si the Prbyterian Church of Ameri is harmg s peace and pury. I thk ’s very clear that the lack of clary on homosexualy is g a lot of problems wh the peace and pury of our culture.

And aga, I don’t want to jt make seem like I’m foced on homosexualy alone. Bee if we n get some clary on all the different issu, but this se, homosexualy, and what is really te and right and good unr God’s ey, then the whole culture will start to repent on this and the laws that we have the dividuals that are gog agast this, cludg we hope dividuals who are mtg a heterosexual adultery, and we’ll have a lot more peace and pury the culture around today. 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.