The relig nversatn about LGBTQ issu often epts to personalized bat about biblil passag or scientific studi. In Dear Church: I’m Gay,…
Contents:
- RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
- GAY EX-HILLSONG MEMBERS SPEAK OUT AGAST CHRIS PRATT’S CHURCH: ‘THEY DON’T BELIEVE US AS HUMAN BEGS’
- DEAR CHURCH: I'M GAY
RENNTRE GRATUE GAY à PARIS, (75)
"Tim Schraer, an openly gay Christian and the -founr of Church Clary, said his anizatn chose megachurch church for this new report, bee, "We know people look to the church for fluence. The anizatn tegori church as Undisclosed, Unclear: Non-Affirmg, Unclear: Affirmg, Clear: Non-Affirmg, Clear: Affirmg, Actively Discerng or Verified speakg about the importance of transparency regardg LGBTQ polici, Schraer referenced the story of Nathaniel Totten, a gay Christian who attend the nonnomatnal Elevatn Church Roanoke, Virgia. Listeng to one of his favore sgers speak, Jabs, who is gay, had a sudn realizatn.
GAY EX-HILLSONG MEMBERS SPEAK OUT AGAST CHRIS PRATT’S CHURCH: ‘THEY DON’T BELIEVE US AS HUMAN BEGS’
Zoe Church has not officially e out agast the LGBTQ muny, though s pastor produced a film that equated homosexualy wh “sexual brokenns. However, as The Daily Beast prevly reported, parent church Hillsong has a lengthy history of gay nversn therapy, and refg learship rol to LGBTQ people. A reprentative for Hillsong cled to ment on the church’s current LGBTQ beliefs, stead referrg to global senr pastor Brian Hoton’s 2015 blog tled, “Do I Love Gay People?
” Followg backlash after the firg of Josh Canfield, a gay man who served as Hillsong’s NYC choir director, over his sexualy, Hoton wrote, “Hillsong Church wel ALL people but do not affirm all liftyl. Put clearly, we do not affirm a gay liftyle and bee of this we do not knowgly have actively gay people posns of learship, eher paid or unpaid.
DEAR CHURCH: I'M GAY
” The news me as a shock to many who didn’t expect homophobia wh the morn, high-tech church. “They’re not gog to put anti-gay their love songs.
“No one had openly e out to me there, but I had some iends who wanted to jo that were gay.
She no longer feels alone her ristance to Hillsong but is trated that Pratt and other celebri won’t ndidly discs the church’s homophobia. Such a spirual mulligan would not be afford to people gay relatnships, which are not mentned at all the Bible the way we unrstand them today, yet are swiftly nmned. Bieber ved a gay fan who was stgglg to fd a church to jo him at Hillsong, tellg her, “If you ever want to e to any of the servic, any of them would love to have you.