Danny Cortez, once a Southern Baptist mister, did do more than accept his gay son: He cid to talk to his ngregatn about homosexualy, even though ultimately meant his leavg the church.
Contents:
- WHEN HIS SON CAME OUT AS GAY, THIS PASTOR DELIVERED A SERMON OF SUPPORT
- SOUTHERN BAPTIST PASTOR ACCEPTS HIS GAY SON, CHANG HIS CHURCH.
- FORMER SBC PRINT RIGNS SEMARY POST OVER CONTROVERSY INVOLVG GAY SON
- CHRISTIAN PASTOR STANDS UP AGAST CHURCH FOR HIS GAY SON
- BREAKING: JAM MERRT FENDS GAY SON’S PREACHG BY ATTACKG TMP SUPPORTERS
- GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
- MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
- PASTOR WHO MARRIED GAY SON SPEND--WH A TCH
- EVANGELILS WH GAY CHILDREN CHALLENGE CHURCH
- MOM: OUTED PASTOR TOLD MY GAY SON HE WAS GOG TO HELL
- AS FORMER SBC PREZ DOUBL DOWN ON SUPPORT FOR GAY SON SERMON, PASTORS BEG BREAKG 11TH COMMANDMENT
- PASTOR LED SON’S GAY WEDDG, REVEALG FLT LE CHURCH
WHEN HIS SON CAME OUT AS GAY, THIS PASTOR DELIVERED A SERMON OF SUPPORT
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" At the time, Danny told his ngregatn about the moment his son me out: "I was drivg my son Drew to school, and he turned over to me and he says, 'Dad, I'm gay.
SOUTHERN BAPTIST PASTOR ACCEPTS HIS GAY SON, CHANG HIS CHURCH.
Former SBC Print Jam Merrt rigned om Southeastern Baptist Theologil Semary over ntroversy volvg Merrt's Gay Son. * pastor gay son *
A Southern Baptist church California has broken wh the nomatn's stance on homosexualy and has cid to accept the LGBT muny whout judgment.
The church ma the change after s lead pastor announced that he no longer holds to the teachg that homosexualy is a Cortez, who leads New Heart Communy Church La Mirada, explaed his journey a letter to progrsive Christian blogger John Shore, founr of Unfundamentalist Christians, last month. At the end of that journey, his son me out to him as Heart Communy Church Pastor Danny Cortez addrs his ngregatn on Febary 9, 2014 about why he changed his posn on homosexualy. | (Photo: Danny Cortez / YouTube Screenshot)"I recently beme gay affirmg after a 15-year journey of havg multiple people my ngregatn e out to me every year, " Cortez wrote.
FORMER SBC PRINT RIGNS SEMARY POST OVER CONTROVERSY INVOLVG GAY SON
Pastor Kent Christmas sists God stopped his son om attendg gay nightclubs. * pastor gay son *
After readg many of Shore's wrgs and hearg ttimony om gay iends who felt margalized, Cortez said his "ey beme open to the jtice that the church has wrought" and Augt 2013, he said he "realized I no longer believed the tradnal teachgs regardg homosexualy. "Soon after his shift beliefs, his 15-year-old son, Drew, revealed that he was gay and later me out publicly on believ that if wasn't for that 15-year journey and his change theology, "I may have stroyed my son through reparative therapy.
CHRISTIAN PASTOR STANDS UP AGAST CHURCH FOR HIS GAY SON
The pastor of an Atlanta megachurch wh thoands of followers, who was twice married and is a father of four, is speakg out about his recent cisn to publicly clare he is gay. * pastor gay son *
A sentence of life wh no chance to love, " he majory of his sermon that day foced on Romans 1, a passage which many Christians terpret as nmng homosexual behavr. In his letter to Shore, he also acknowledged that Ken Wilson's book, A Letter to My Congregatn, had been 's announcement, which the pastor acknowledged had trated church elrs by s abptns, left many the church displeased and the church cid to vote on whether to termate the pastor or accept his a perd of prayer, study and discernment, which also clud hearg om gay and straight teachers on both sis of the homosexualy bate, the church voted May not to dismiss Cortez and "stead to bee a Third Way church, " Cortez explaed.
At the very least, their cisn to rema the ngregatn is a cisn to stay wh a church that affirms same-sex behavrs and relatnships, " he also poted to progrsive Christian blogger Tony Jon, who disagre wh Mohler's views on homosexualy but has ma a siar pot to that of his nservative lleague last month.
"I've got a few iends to gracly and tenacly hang on to the ia that a third way n be found on this issue, a middle ground between affirmg gay marriage and nmng . In ls than 48 hours, WV reversed their cisn, " he said he believ that New Heart will ultimately be forced to leave the Southern Baptist Conventn, given that the "the Baptist Fah & Msage, the nomatn's nfsn of fah, stat that homosexualy is immoral and that marriage is 'the ung of one man and one woman venant mment for a lifetime.
BREAKING: JAM MERRT FENDS GAY SON’S PREACHG BY ATTACKG TMP SUPPORTERS
A Uned Methodist pastor found guilty of vlatg church law for marryg his gay son to another man now gets to keep his crentials--for the next month. * pastor gay son *
'""Furthermore, the Conventn's nstutn stat explicly that any ngregatn that endors homosexual behavr is 'not operatn wh the Conventn, ' and th exclud om s membership.
GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
After losg son, Rob and Lda Robertson try to change church policy while helpg other evangelil parents accept their gay children * pastor gay son *
And was pecially the ttimony of my gay iends that helped me to see how they have been margalized that my ey beme open to the jtice that the church has wrought. I shared that the body of Christ is segregated every sunday between gay affirmg and non-gay affirmg and that there mt be uny and love.
This is an hont man of God sharg his heartfelt, hard-won ttimony of how he me to unrstand, spe everythg he’d been tght to believe, that is no s to be gay.
MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
A mother Michigan says a lol pastor almost drove her gay son to suici. CNN affiliate WNEM reports that the pastor has now rigned after beg outed on a webse. * pastor gay son *
Former Southern Baptist Conventn Print Jam Merrt rigned last week as a visg profsor at Southeastern Baptist Theologil Semary over ntroversy sparked by Merrt’s cisn to share a sermon onle by his son who’s gay. If a person tak the time to expla his or her perversn that’s bad enough (if ’s private, ’s private), but to brandish about wh the ‘gay’ badge that tomatilly supports the ‘queer’ agenda, that’s not preachg Christ om envy.
A person openly practicg homosexualy is utterly unqualified to preach any venue, jt as a practicg adulterer, practicg alholic, practicg child aber, practicg dg aber is also utterly unqualified. A Christian Reformed Church pastor who has a gay son has spoken out agast the nomatn’s cisn to uphold s teachg agast same-sex relatnships and Styk, pastor of Communy Church Wyomg, Mich., was a legate to the Christian Reformed synod — a meetg of nomatnal lears — last week Grand Rapids, Mich.
PASTOR WHO MARRIED GAY SON SPEND--WH A TCH
One of the groups aimg to take the Southern Baptist Conventn a more nservative directn ntu to sound the alarm about liberalism the natn’s largt non-Catholic Christian nomatn and now has attacked one of the ins of the last “nservative rurgence” the SBC bee his son is gay. * pastor gay son *
At the synod, legat voted to stand by a cisn ma 2022, upgradg the nomal posn opposg same-sex relatnships om pastoral advice to “nfsnal stat, ” meang “is nsired part of the re beliefs of the [Christian Reformed Church] and that anyone holdg office the church is expected to uphold , ” acrdg to a Christian Reformed said his gay son, CNN producer Ryan Styk, has helped him bee a supporter of LGBTQ+ equaly. ”Pastor stands up for son after church exclus LGBTQ supporters Your Se ArticlInclivens Is an Asset to Major LGBT-Affirmg Church and Synagogu ›Same-Sex Weddg Likely to End Profsor's Job at Christian School ›Michigan Church Congregatn Ref to Remove LGBTQ+ Dean ›Chick fil A COO Dan Cathy Officially Com Out as Antigay ›WATCH: Ted Cz Says Marriage Equaly Rulg 'Will Not Stand' ›Iowa Republins Seek to End Marriage Equaly State ›Christian-Owned Bs Can Discrimate Agast LGBTQ+ People: Court ›.
Twter er summarized the post perfectly: “Am I mistaken, or did Jam Merrt really jt say that you nnot cricize him promotg his gay sons preachg if you supported Tmp? Pastor Kent Christmas (his actual name) of Regeneratn Nashville, whose upg plans clu healg a woman a “vegetative a, ” is also rabidly anti-gay.
EVANGELILS WH GAY CHILDREN CHALLENGE CHURCH
Durg his sermon on Sunday, Christmas explaed how his prayers helped cure his own son’s homosexualy… which was necsary bee his son was apparently so gay, he had his own parkg spot at a lol gay nightclub. But when you’re raised by parents who scribe homosexualy as a “monic spir that’s e after our seed, ” we shouldn’t be surprised when a son do everythg he n to avoid the label.
MOM: OUTED PASTOR TOLD MY GAY SON HE WAS GOG TO HELL
2, 2010— -- The pastor of a Geia megachurch wh thoands of followers, who was twice married and is a father of four, is speakg out about his recent cisn to publicly clare he is gay.
AS FORMER SBC PREZ DOUBL DOWN ON SUPPORT FOR GAY SON SERMON, PASTORS BEG BREAKG 11TH COMMANDMENT
I want to tell you that is not, " Jim Swilley said a vio shot the nonnomatnal megachuch Swilley found 25 years Swilley said g out was a cisn he's stggled wh sce childhood, he ma the announcement last month not for personal reasons -- he said he hop to save 52-year-old founr of Church the Now Conyers, Ga., said he's g out to help stem the recent ti of gay suicis Ameri and won't be swayed by some hateful msag that have been wrten about him onle. ""Hearg about the kids who are mtg suici, the reactn as a gay adult is, 'I wish I uld have jt talked to them for 15 mut or five mut and told them gets better, '" Savage said.
"Officials, Celebri Jo 'It Gets Better'Three weeks later, a cy uncil meetg Fort Worth, Texas, gay cy uncilman Joel Burns was moved to share his own emotnal story about how close he me to killg himself at age 13.
” On his 39th birthday Jonathan Merrt jumped out of the closet wh both feet after years of repeated nials that he is a homosexual. In 2012 Azariah Southworth, a “gay evangelil, ” claimed he had a sexual enunter wh Jonathan and chid him publicly for not admtg to beg gay.
PASTOR LED SON’S GAY WEDDG, REVEALG FLT LE CHURCH
Followg the news of Merrt’s homosexual adventure wh Southworth, Ken Silva of Apprisg Mistri penned a piece entled “Homosexualy and Jonathan Merrt” where he wrote:. Here at Apprisg Mistri I’ve told you that I believe a major evangelil figure will e out as homosexual “soon” servg to fully tonate this whole gay bate—currently rippg apart and dividg male nomatns—right wh the mastream of evangelilism self.
So today, I’m raisg a glass to my full and plete self—a gay man, beloved by God, who has endured the worst the world uld throw at him and fought his way to health and wholens.