Unfundamentalist Christians founr John Shore recently shared a letter om a gay Christian who is stgglg wh his sexualy and fah. Among the many enuragg ments on that post was one om a gay pastor who betifully explaed his unrstandg of the Bible, Christiany, and sexualy.
Contents:
- WHEN HIS SON CAME OUT AS GAY, THIS PASTOR DELIVERED A SERMON OF SUPPORT
- A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
- PASTOR LED SON’S GAY WEDDG, REVEALG FLT LE CHURCH
- HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
WHEN HIS SON CAME OUT AS GAY, THIS PASTOR DELIVERED A SERMON OF SUPPORT
Danny Cortez, once a Southern Baptist mister, did do more than accept his gay son: He cid to talk to his ngregatn about homosexualy, even though ultimately meant his leavg the church. * minister son gay *
When His Son Came Out As Gay, This Pastor Delivered A Sermon Of Support. He also has a son who recently me out as gay.
" 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 Gay Pastor Explas What the Bible Really Says About Homosexualy. Unfundamentalist Christians founr John Shore recently shared a letter om a gay Christian who is stgglg wh his sexualy and fah.
Among the many enuragg ments on that post was one om a gay pastor who betifully explaed his unrstandg of the Bible, Christiany, and sexualy.
A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
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a gay pastor who spent s nng om my te affectns. But now, after years of nial and fear, I fally realize that God lovgly formed me to be who I am, my mother’s womb, and that the Lord embrac me as his loved gay child.
Pl was not sayg that idolatry turns people gay; rather, he was sayg that idolatry led to participatn shameful acts of lt. As I said before, Romans 1 is not about gay Christian boys or girls, but about idolaters wh darkened unrstandg.
Another passage often quoted agast is 1 Corthians 6:9, wrongly translated as “homosexuals.
PASTOR LED SON’S GAY WEDDG, REVEALG FLT LE CHURCH
Frank Schaefer, like other lears of Uned Methodist ngregatns, had difficult choic to make when his son acknowledged that he is gay. * minister son gay *
But Genis 19 no more nmns all homosexualy than Judg 19 nmns all heterosexualy.
If I ever meet a fe gay man who is Spirual and lovg and mutually attractive, and if I felt the Lord leadg me to him and him to me, I would feel ee to be his mate. Bee Lavrov did not offer any exampl of untri where the supposed bisexualy of J is a standard part of the curriculum, and no one has yet found any, Rsian journalists gused that he might have been riffg off a viral TikTok vio, which an Atralian mother who tak pri tg her young children to be acceptg of anyone who is “different, trans, or gay” filmed her 4-year-old son sayg that J is “bi and nonbary.
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HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
“His own church was sayg to him that, as a homosexual, you n’t go to heaven, ” Frank Schaefer said.
’ ”In a seri of recent terviews, by telephone and Washgton, where they attend a gay pri event wh Print Obama at the Whe Hoe, father and son scribed their separate and shared cris of love and fah, which began 2001 when Tim, then high school, acknowledged to his parents that he was, now 52, had grown up a nservative Baptist church Wt Germany, believg homosexualy was a s, but had quietly bee more acceptg. Tim, now 30, had grown up his father’s nservative Uned Methodist church Pennsylvania, beg prsed and ntemplatg throwg himself off the roof of a parsonage when he realized he was gay. “I didn’t want to be gay, and I didn’t want to go to hell.
”Frank Schaefer rells the moment Tim me out to his parents as “a stab through our heart, ” not bee Tim was gay, but bee he had been unsure he uld nfi them and had stggled private.