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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

" 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. 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. 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. 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.

SOUTHERN BAPTIST PASTOR ACCEPTS HIS GAY SON, CHANG HIS CHURCH.

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.

'""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.

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.

FORMER SBC PRINT RIGNS SEMARY POST OVER CONTROVERSY INVOLVG 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.

CHRISTIAN PASTOR STANDS UP AGAST CHURCH FOR HIS 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. 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.

BREAKING: JAM MERRT FENDS GAY SON’S PREACHG BY ATTACKG TMP SUPPORTERS

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. 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.

GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY

” 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.

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. It is troublg to hear Jonathan Merrt jtify his cisn to live as a gay man (a chosen inty and activy) ma out of whole cloth that has nothg to do wh the Lord J’s view of homosexualy that is the Bible. He knows this but perhaps, like so many other lud homosexuals and heterosexuals who dulge sexual activy out of marriage, he has chosen to put the tth asi and embrace a liftyle of his own choosg.

MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY

He n believe what he wants to, but what this tells me is that this profsg follower of J Christ, who brags that he’s “raisg a glass to my full and plete self—a gay man” is actually thumbg his nose at his Creator.

As I stated above, J, who is the Son of God and the Send Person of the Try, nmned homosexualy and sexual relatns outsi of marriage. Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God. From the two pots, follows that adoptg a homosexual inty is also a s, sce such an inty entails at least a tac approval of homosexual sir (Si B), if not also of homosexual practic (Si A).

A Uned Methodist pastor found guilty of vlatg church law for marryg his gay son to another man gets to keep his ordatn crentials--for at least the next month.

PASTOR WHO MARRIED GAY SON SPEND--WH A TCH

Frank Schaefer of the Zn Uned Methodist church Lebanon, PA., was nvicted a church trial on Monday of officiatg at a gay weddg and showg "disobedience to the orr and disciple of the Uned Methodist Church. ”Schaefer’s trial is the first sce the 1, 000-member General Conference 2012 reaffirmed the Uned Methodist Church’s policy on homosexualy, which accepts gay and lbian members but nsirs the practice “patible wh Christian teachg. "There were only a handful of church trials between the years 1998 and 2011 for Methodist clergy acced of performg same-sex weddgs, or of g out as gay themselv.

But the last uple years have seen five new potential s emerge, cludg two other pastors who performed their gay children's weddgs, and a retired bishop--the only one to have ever publicly prid over a same-sex ceremony. Rob and Lda Robertson did what they believed was expected of them as good their 12-year-old son Ryan said he was gay, they told him they loved him, but he had to change. But stead of breakg wh evangelilism -- as many parents siar circumstanc have done -- the uple is takg a different approach, and they're spirg other Christians wh gay children to do the same.

The parents have only recently started fdg each other onle and through fah-oriented anizatns for gays and lbians such as the Gay Christian Network, The Reformatn Project and The Mar Lda Robertson, who blogs about her son at, said a private Facebook page she started last year for evangelil mothers of gays has more than 300 members. And the last few years, high-profile s of proment Christian parents embracg their gay children dite a change is occurrg beyond a few isolated Brownson, a New Ttament scholar at Wtern Theologil Semary, a Michigan school affiliated wh the Reformed Church Ameri, last year published the book "Bible, Genr, Sexualy, " advotg a re-examatn of what Scripture says about same-sex relatnships. In a statement urgg the church to accept gays and lbians, Wenger noted the pa his fay experienced when a church lear exmunited his son three s ago whout any discsn wh Wenger and his Rev.

EVANGELILS WH GAY CHILDREN CHALLENGE CHURCH

The natnal nomatn this fall cut ti wh the the Uned Methodist Church, two misters wh gay sons drew natnal attentn for separately pridg at their children's same-sex weddgs spe a church prohibn agast dog so: The Rev. "I thk at some pot moms and dads are gog to say to their pastors and church learship that you n't tell me that my child is not loved unndnally by God, " said San Shopland, the dghter of a Prbyterian missnary who, along wh her gay son, is active wh the Gay Christian Baldock, a Christian who advot for gay acceptance through her webse, said evangelil parents are speakg out more bee of the example set by their children. Gay and lbian Christians have creasgly been makg the argument they n be attracted to people of the same genr and rema fahful to God, whether that means stayg celibate or havg a mted same-sex relatnship.

The annual nference of the Gay Christian Network has grown om 40 people a ago to an expected 1, 400 for the next event January. Matthew V, thor of "God and the Gay Christian, " has attracted more than 810, 000 views on YouTube for a 2012 lecture he gave challengg the argument that Scripture bars same-sex relatnships. Baldock, The Mar Foundatn and the Gay Christian Network all say Christian parents have been reachg out to them for help notably higher numbers the last uple of years.

MOM: OUTED PASTOR TOLD MY GAY SON HE WAS GOG TO HELL

Rsell Moore, addrsed the issue on his blog and at the marriage nference last month, tellg Christian parents they shouldn't shun their gay children.

Mohler has said he expects some evangelil church to eventually regnize same-sex relatnships, but not signifint Robertson said the mothers who ntact her through her Facebook page ually aren't ready to fully accept their gay sons or dghters. But then they're gog back to their church and speakg to their pastors, speakg to their elrs and speakg to their iends, sayg, 'We have a gay child.

Stuck a small town wh even smaller mds long before the ia of gay marriage beg legalized even existed, he fds ways to vent both his sexual tratn and ternalized homophobia the most unlikely place: the arms of the pastor's elst son. 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.

AS FORMER SBC PREZ DOUBL DOWN ON SUPPORT FOR GAY SON SERMON, PASTORS BEG BREAKG 11TH COMMANDMENT

In rponse to the CBN broadsi lnched three days before Thanksgivg, Jonathan Merrt tweeted: “I’m not the only gay child of an SBC pastor who’s home for the holidays. Earlier this year, Towne View lost s relatnship wh the Southern Baptist Conventn (SBC) and almost half s membership, along wh their du, as a rult of Conrad’s cisn 2019 to accept a gay uple and their three children as members of Towne View. He and McClanah were eager to raise their sons, then ag 7, 9 and 11, the Southern Baptist tradn that meant so much to them, but unrstood the difficulty their fay would face fdg a ngregatn given the SBC’s stnch posn agast homosexualy.

“When one of our church choos to affirm or endorse homosexual behavr through their fn of regenerate church membership, we have clearly e to a different unrstandg on what we believe is an sential doctre, ” JD Greear, SBC print and pastor of The Summ Church, said an email statement to CNN. Brockton Bat, a 24-year-old om Dallas, Geia, said he and his partner have also found sanctuary wh Towne View, after years of stgglg to fd his place the church as an openly gay man. Bat said he began to really unrstand the church’s msagg on homosexualy after g out middle school to his parents, who took him to a unselor to “pray the gay away.

“It was pafully clear the muny I was volved would not love me the same if I were to emphatilly say, ‘hey, I’m gay, ’ and this is how is, ” Bat said.

PASTOR LED SON’S GAY WEDDG, REVEALG FLT LE CHURCH

Conrad’s beliefs of acceptance were at the foreont of Easter servic this past weekend where he said the signifince of havg openly gay parishners such as Bat lead worship ls than two months after beg disfellowshipped was not lost on him. Given that his son is an open, unrepentant homosexual who livered the sermon at his open and affirmg pro-LGBTQ church, his mendatn of is more than tchg some heat, Merrt sermon doubled down on his statements, wrg:. Merrt’s recent endorsement of the preachg of his openly gay son, I have some ser qutns for you as the Print of SEBTS, an stutn owned by and unr the thory of the 47, 000+ SBC your posn that a person n be openly gay and a Christian?

I am sure you are aware that the Baptist Fah and Msage, Article XV, stat: “In the spir of Christ, Christians should oppose…homosexualy”. Merrt endors the sermon of his gay son and is such an fluential Southern Baptist and a member of your own faculty, I believe Southern Baptists are servg of an answer to the qutns I have posed to you above.