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Contents:
- THE E OF A SCENE: WHY GAY CHRISTIANS ARE AAID TO E OUT TO THEIR PASTORS
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
- HOW TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
THE E OF A SCENE: WHY GAY CHRISTIANS ARE AAID TO E OUT TO THEIR PASTORS
When I started wrg my new book, God and the Gay Christian, I was well aware that Christians who oppose same-sex marriage the church have long ed the Bible to fend their pot of view. As a gay Christian om an evangelil church Kansas, that stat quo has had a damagg impact on my life, which is one reason I'm settg out to change the flty perspective. Here are 10 reasons why God accepts gay Christians. * gay christian twitter *
READ: Bt-sellg thor Eugene Peterson chang his md on gay marriage. Evangelil lear, thor and HGTV star Jen Hatmaker publicly changed her views on gay marriage 2016. He fend tradnal marriage a 2008 Christiany Today article, sayg he wasn’t sure he’d perform a same-sex blsg, although he did exprs support for gay and lbian civil rights.
After takg a leave of absence om Harvard Universy to study the Bible and homosexualy, Matthew V gave a speech at his church about acceptg gay Christians that has amassed over 1 ln views on YouTube sce 2012. He also started The Reformatn Project, a nonprof tryg to “reform church teachg on sexual orientatn and genr inty, ” and wrote the book “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships. The former pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church publicly stated his views on gay marriage while speakg at San Francis’s Grace Cathedral 2013.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
Beg open about your sexual orientatn should be as easy as breathg, but realy, tak nsc effort and a ltle practice. First, nsir what the Bible says about gay love, and tly ci if that is the path you wish to... * gay christian twitter *
In a post on his webse tled “My Comg Out Letter, ” Christian rock mician Trey Pearson told fans that he intified as a gay man, spe beg married wh children. Sce g out, he has wrten about life as a gay Christian and created a mic vio pictg his experience. Although she has intified as gay sce high school, Julie Rodgers has officially supported gay marriage for only a few years.
As she has chronicled on her blog and The Washgton Post, she first spent a long time advotg celibacy for Christians who were gay or lbian.
HOW TO BE AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
” This label om her posns on LGBT rights and homosexualy, topics she’s grappled wh publicly sce startg her blog 2008. In one of her old posts, “An Evangelil’s Rponse to Homosexualy, ” she ref to chose a si of the issue but do adm to wonrg if the evangelil church “has wrong. While he said recently that his church, Northland, A Church Distributed, will mata that the Bible prohibs gay relatnships, he now believ nservative church should wele and support those of all sexual orientatns.
Durg her keynote addrs at the 2015 Gay Christian Network’s annual nference, the U. In his song “Cse of a Scene, ” Jake Wley Rogers laments the stggle between wantg to e out to his muny and fearg the social nsequenc of beg publicly gay. However, there is somethg to be said about the feelgs this song, pecially through the lens of the gay Christian experience.
They also are gay. “Tellg a gay Christian, ‘I will pray for you’ when hearg about their sexualy, is not productive. What many heteronormative Christians don’t realize is that tellg a gay Christian, “I will pray for you” when hearg about their sexualy, is not productive.