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Contents:

• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS
• ARE THERE REALLY “GAY CHRISTIANS”?
• GAY CHRISTIANS
• CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FIR GAY SOCCER COACH OVER INSTAGRAM STORI
• AT THE SIGNG OF THE MARRIAGE ACT, THE TWO GAY CHRISTIAN MEN TOOK THE NEXT STEP
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

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. 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.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

“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. “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.

Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay.

JAGUARS’ KEV MAXEN IS FIRST MALE ACH TO E OUT AS GAY US MEN’S PRO SPORTS

Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual. Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league.

Jacksonville Jaguars associate strength ach Kev Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach major North Amerin men's sports after g out publicly an terview wh Outsports. ”Maxen is believed to be the first openly gay male ach the NFL and all of major Amerin men's pro sports, acrdg to Outsports.

" San Francis 49ers assistant Katie Sowers, a pneer among female ach the NFL, me out as the the league's first openly gay ach 2017, acrdg to Outsports.

ARE THERE REALLY “GAY CHRISTIANS”?

He add that he reached out last year for advice on g out om former Las Vegas Rairs lebacker Carl Nassib, who beme the first active openly gay player NFL history 2021. God and the Gay Christian is a book that seeks to teach rears that the Bible ndon livg a monogamo homosexual liftyle. 1 He garnered natnal attentn aga 2013 when he started his mistry The Reformatn Project and hosted a nference to teach people how to “reform” the church on the issue of homosexualy.

2 And April of this year, V ma news once aga wh the release of his new book God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships.

As we broke down his arguments ncerng the creatn orr, we realized that God and the Gay Christian was not the typil progrsive attack on the thory of Scripture. However, I want to turn to exame two of the key assertns on which V reli God and the Gay Christian: the ia that “sexual orientatn” nnot be changed, and the relevance of celibacy to his pot. Are There “Gay Christians”?

GAY CHRISTIANS

And so, by analogy, V believ that his “orientatn” to homosexual behavr is jt part of who he is.

His book’s tle hts at this belief, as refers to “the gay Christian. ” Ined, there are many profsg Christians who have adopted termology such as “gay Christian” as a scriptor for those Christians who stggle wh same-sex attractn (SSA). Owen Strachan, assistant profsor of Christian theology and church history at SBTS, wr about the problem wh g the term “gay Christian” to scribe believers who al wh same-sex attractn.

Even g “gay” or “lbian” as a sendary tegory of fg a Christian troduc nfn. Some Christians argue that while inty Christ is of first importance for a believer to grasp, we should also enurage them to mata this other inty as a “gay Christian, ” as a way of classifyg their experience.

CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FIR GAY SOCCER COACH OVER INSTAGRAM STORI

But homosexualy is an inty issue—the sful inty fights agast the new inty Christ. Many people alg wh SSA will be tempted to say what Matthew V has—that beg homosexual is simply part of who they are—and to treat that as a sendary inty to or as a replacement for their inty as a new creatn Christ.

AT THE SIGNG OF THE MARRIAGE ACT, THE TWO GAY CHRISTIAN MEN TOOK THE NEXT STEP

Homosexualy is an inty issue—the sful inty fights agast the new inty Christ. Moreover, such a msage also ntradicts the Apostle Pl’s msage 1 Corthians 6:11 when he said that Christians have been “washed, ” “sanctified, ” and “jtified” Christ—and Pl specifilly clus homosexualy the list of thgs the believers had left behd. In light of that, what should believers make of Matthew V’s stance ncerng homosexual orientatn?

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

V’s other key assumptn God and the Gay Christian is that celibacy should only be practiced by those lled to , and the men and women alg wh SSA who are not lled to celibacy should be allowed to fulfill their sexual sir through marriage.

Mandatory celibacy for gay Christians do not fulfill that purpose. It sends the msage to gay Christians that their sexual selv are herently shameful. It’s not a fulfillment of sexualy for gay Christians, but a rejectn of .

But the Apostle Pl was crystal clear about homosexual behavr. Moreover, the Levil law refers to all homosexual behavr no uncerta terms as an “abomatn” (Levic 18:22; 20:13).