Ex-gays rpond to Andy Stanley’s remarks on gay churchgoers | Church & Mistri News

Contents:

• STANLEY KAMEL : WAS HE GAY?
• EX-GAYS RPOND TO ANDY STANLEY’S CLAIM THAT LGBT PEOPLE HAVE ‘MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU’
• IS PL STANLEY GAY OR MARRIED TO A WIFE? HIS CHILDREN, FAY, HEIGHT
• ANDY STANLEY SAYS GAY CHURCHGOERS 'HAVE MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU'
• IS PL STANLEY GAY? ON SEXUALY AND A LONG DATG HISTORY
• KISS FRONTMAN PL STANLEY DON'T MD IF YOU THK HE'S GAY
• STANLEY TUCCI: IT’S OK FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY ROL IF DONE ‘THE RIGHT WAY’
• STANLEY TUCCI IS PRETTY FE WH STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS
• STANLEY TUCCI SAYS HE THKS STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS

STANLEY KAMEL : WAS HE GAY?

Sce I’m gay, I never really got the job as producer and there was a real glass ceilg there. Pastor Andy Stanley recently left some Christians qutng his stance on homosexualy after preachg a msage on grace and tth that clud an acunt of a gay uple last month. They separated after the woman's hband began a same-sex relatnship wh another man, who was still married to a man and his partner wanted to serve as volunteers at the church, but Stanley explaed that the two men were mtg adultery sce one of them did not falize his divorce yet and th uld not serve as "msy" story, as Stanley scribed , ends wh the gay uple, the first man's ex-wife and their child, as well as her new boyiend and his child om another relatnship, all g together to worship together at a big service at North Pot Church.

Albert Mohler of The Southern Baptist Theologil Semary, to ponr whether Stanley was nmng only adultery and not homosexualy.

"Stanley clearly and repeatedly strsed the s of adultery, but then left the realy of the homosexual relatnship between the two men unaddrsed as s, " Mohler wrote on his blog this week. The moral stat of their relatnship seemed to be qutned only terms of adultery, wh no moral judgment on their homosexualy. "Both Mohler and Delzell are hopg the Geia pastor will clarify his stance and "affirm the biblil claratn of the sfulns of homosexual behavr, even as he preach the fivens of s any form through the ath and rurrectn of J Christ, " as Mohler first seven parts of Stanley's "Christian" sermon seri are available for viewg on North Pot's official webse.

EX-GAYS RPOND TO ANDY STANLEY’S CLAIM THAT LGBT PEOPLE HAVE ‘MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU’

"READ: CHRISTIANITY IS NOT ABOUT GOING FROM GAY TO STRAIGHT; IT'S ABOUT TURNING FROM SIN TO JESUSFree Relig Freedom UpdatJo thoands of others to get the FREEDOM POST newsletter for ee, sent twice a week om The Christian Post. While I DID have that relatnship wh a woman, LONG before that, I was both amed and trated by how many people & extend fay om my small home town were "whisperg" and jt nvced that I was gay!

Where I am om, if you don't have a hband and at least one kid by the time you are 25-ish, they really jt assume that you are gay and/or to some sort of "crazy liftyle.

I like to thk that I have a pretty good "gaydar, " but I never saw this actor and nsired the possibily. The late, great Tony Perks had a lovely wife and two sons, but he was most fely bisexual, if not jt gay. And he drew the bt cks the universe: He uld have gotten a job workg at a gay porno magaze.

IS PL STANLEY GAY OR MARRIED TO A WIFE? HIS CHILDREN, FAY, HEIGHT

(BP) — Megachurch pastor Andy Stanley is beg cricized for a recent sermon illtratn volvg a gay uple which Stanley labeled adultery, but not homosexualy, a s.

ANDY STANLEY SAYS GAY CHURCHGOERS 'HAVE MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU'

I need a … drama-ee zone, '” Stanley gay uple did go to another church — Buckhead Church, which is one of North Pot’s mp church that shows Stanley’s msag on a large screen.

Stanley — who ed graphics of stick figur durg the sermon to illtrate his pot — said he learned about the gay uple’s attendance at Buckhead Church durg a nversatn wh the woman. She told him that not only was the gay uple attendg Buckhead, but that they were servg on one of the church’s “gut servic teams.

'”The illtratn is problematic, Mohler said, bee Stanley seemed to be sayg that while adultery is a s and a barrier to service, homosexualy isn’t. “The pable imprsn left by the acunt was that the s of ncern was adultery, but not homosexualy, ” Mohler wrote. “Stanley clearly and repeatedly strsed the s of adultery, but then left the realy of the homosexual relatnship between the two men unaddrsed as s.

IS PL STANLEY GAY? ON SEXUALY AND A LONG DATG HISTORY

Earlier the same sermon, Stanley mentned that North Pot and s mp have gay attenrs who have left predomantly gay church. Stanley said gay attenrs tell him: “In the church that kd of ter to gay upl, I feel like all they do is affirm my gayns. “After watchg this msage, I am nfed as to how Andy Stanley would answer someone who is stgglg wh the s of homosexualy, ” Stt wrote.

“Stanley is a master munitor and I n’t help but thk that his illtratn was signed to munite a particular belief about how the church should apply grace and tth as relat to the issue of homosexualy (although he went to great lengths to avoid mentng homosexualy at all his illtratn).

KISS FRONTMAN PL STANLEY DON'T MD IF YOU THK HE'S GAY

When the issu are clear — and homosexualy is one of those issu — then we nnot afford to sacrifice tth for grace. | Screenshot: YouTube/Gwt Church Christians who once intified as homosexual have mixed opns about recent remarks ma by Pastor Andy Stanley, which the megachurch lear said that LGBT dividuals who go to church have “more fah than a lot of you.

”Last month, a short clip of Stanley was posted on Twter which he said “a gay person who still wants to attend church after the way the church has treated the gay muny, I'm tellg you, they have more fah than I do. Stanley acknowledged that there were vers the Bible that nmned homosexualy, but then add, “oh my goodns, a gay man or woman who wants to worship their heavenly Father, who did not answer the cry of their heart when they were 12 and 13 and 14 and 15. ”“Stanley is filled wh such rpt theology that he believ ‘gay’ and other rpt inti are legimate, ” said Black.

STANLEY TUCCI: IT’S OK FOR STRAIGHT ACTORS TO PLAY GAY ROL IF DONE ‘THE RIGHT WAY’

”“Andy Stanley repeatedly munit ‘gay people’ as a legimate inty given to this morn culture over the last 100 years om psychology and the Amerin Psychologil Associatn legimizg rpt human sexual sir as orientatns.

STANLEY TUCCI IS PRETTY FE WH STRAIGHT ACTORS PLAYG GAY CHARACTERS

”Black drew a parallel to the mistry known as Revoice, a Christian mistry that, while adherg to the belief that homosexualy is sful, garnered ntroversy theologilly nservative circl for s embrace of ias like Christians beg able to intify as LGBT. I know hundreds of ex-homosexuals who are livg out a life whout labels and are found J Christ alone. Durg the urse of that terview, Daigle was asked whether or not she thought homosexualy was a s.

Sce I “found out” the answer to that qutn long ago through the study of God’s word and the proclamatn of my pastor, I took upon myself to wre Daigle a letter explag to her that homosexualy is, fact, a s. For many years there have been many people who claim that the sger is gay, although there is not much to support this claim.

STANLEY TUCCI SAYS HE THKS STRAIGHT ACTORS SHOULD BE ABLE TO PLAY GAY CHARACTERS

Marilyn Manson scribed the band as “four gay guys Halloween stum”, somethg that was not well received by Stanley and other band members.

| Willow Creek AssociatnDo gay dividuals who go to church have more fah than most Christians?

""A gay person who still wants to attend church after the way they've been treated, I'm tellg you, they have more fah than I do, " Stanley said the clip, which had over 1. " asked msage — which reportedly me durg North Pot's Drive Conference May 2022 — also spoke directly to the "gay men and women who grew up church and the gay men and women who've e to fah Christ as adults, who want to participate our church. "After acknowledgg the multiple passag of Scripture that nmn homosexualy as s, Stanley appeared to suggt that rather than a failure to repent on behalf of LGBT dividuals who go to church, was God who didn't change their hearts.