In early March, evangelil Pastor Stan Mchell announced to his ngregatn, GracePot Church Nashville, that he fully affirmed gay members. Growg numbers of evangelil pastors the Uned Stat are g out favor of full acceptance of LGBTQ+ people and their sir and relatnships, albe wh the nf of tradnal, monogamo, chaste, and lifelong marriag (which are strict nf ed).
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- TOP 10 GAY MEN EVANGELIL AMERIA RELIGN HAS S SECRETSJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED I’M JONATHAN. I BLOG GOD.·10 M READ·MAY 27--14SHAREIF YOU THOUGHT THAT QUEER MEN THE EVANGELIL WORLD WERE JT THE CLOSETED CHOIR DIRECTORS OF SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH — WELL, YOU’D BE WRONG.THIS ‘PRI’ MONTH, I’M THKG ABOUT A DIFFICULT PLACE TO BE GAY, GAYISH OR OTHERWISE ‘QUEER’: AMERI’S LARGT RELIGN. EVANGELILISM DON’T POT THEM OUT, BUT FEAR NOT!THEY’RE THERE.JIM ELLT BY MIDJOURNEY (2023)1. KG JAM I (1566–1625)I GUS MT BE GOD’S SENSE OF HUMOR THAT THE MOST FAMO NAME EVANGELILISM—OTHER THAN “GOD”—IS AN OPENLY GAY MAN.SOMETIM I EVEN GET A LTLE GIDDY AND REFER TO HOMOSEXUALY AS ‘THE KG JAM PERVERSN’.JAM I WAS THE ENGLISH KG WHO SPONSORED THE ‘KG JAM VERSN’, OR KJV, WHICH BEME THE SACRED TEXT OF PROTTANTISM. THE RELIGN WON’T TELL YOU ABOUT HIM, BUT HISTORIANS WILL. IN 1963, MRICE ASHLEY REPORTS: “OF MARY’S ONLY CHILD, KG JAM I, ONE MT ACCEPT THAT FUNDAMENTALLY HE WAS A HOMOSEXUAL.”A SPEECH BY JAM TO HIS PRIVY UNCIL HAS HIM JTIFYG HIS SEXUALY ON THE GROUNDS THAT J WAS GAY TOO!“I WISH TO SPEAK MY OWN BEHALF AND NOT TO HAVE THOUGHT TO BE A FECT, FOR J CHRIST DID THE SAME, AND THEREFORE I NNOT BE BLAMED. CHRIST HAD HIS JOHN, AND I HAVE MY GEE.”JAM VI AND I (C.1605)A 2007 PAPER BY CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS DONALD CAPPS AND NATHAN STEVEN CARL, “THE HOMOSEXUAL TENNCI OF KG JAM: SHOULD THIS MATTER TO BIBLE REARS TODAY?,” TRI TO TALK CHRISTIANS THROUGH THE EVINCE.A DIFFICULT TASK.2. GEE FRERIC HANL (1685–1759)
- CAN YOU BE GAY-VANGELIL?
- LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
- COMG OUT AS A GAY EVANGELIL CHRISTIAN - LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH REFLECTN BY PAM GOLD
- MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
TOP 10 GAY MEN EVANGELIL AMERIA RELIGN HAS S SECRETSJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED I’M JONATHAN. I BLOG GOD.·10 M READ·MAY 27--14SHAREIF YOU THOUGHT THAT QUEER MEN THE EVANGELIL WORLD WERE JT THE CLOSETED CHOIR DIRECTORS OF SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH — WELL, YOU’D BE WRONG.THIS ‘PRI’ MONTH, I’M THKG ABOUT A DIFFICULT PLACE TO BE GAY, GAYISH OR OTHERWISE ‘QUEER’: AMERI’S LARGT RELIGN. EVANGELILISM DON’T POT THEM OUT, BUT FEAR NOT!THEY’RE THERE.JIM ELLT BY MIDJOURNEY (2023)1. KG JAM I (1566–1625)I GUS MT BE GOD’S SENSE OF HUMOR THAT THE MOST FAMO NAME EVANGELILISM—OTHER THAN “GOD”—IS AN OPENLY GAY MAN.SOMETIM I EVEN GET A LTLE GIDDY AND REFER TO HOMOSEXUALY AS ‘THE KG JAM PERVERSN’.JAM I WAS THE ENGLISH KG WHO SPONSORED THE ‘KG JAM VERSN’, OR KJV, WHICH BEME THE SACRED TEXT OF PROTTANTISM. THE RELIGN WON’T TELL YOU ABOUT HIM, BUT HISTORIANS WILL. IN 1963, MRICE ASHLEY REPORTS: “OF MARY’S ONLY CHILD, KG JAM I, ONE MT ACCEPT THAT FUNDAMENTALLY HE WAS A HOMOSEXUAL.”A SPEECH BY JAM TO HIS PRIVY UNCIL HAS HIM JTIFYG HIS SEXUALY ON THE GROUNDS THAT J WAS GAY TOO!“I WISH TO SPEAK MY OWN BEHALF AND NOT TO HAVE THOUGHT TO BE A FECT, FOR J CHRIST DID THE SAME, AND THEREFORE I NNOT BE BLAMED. CHRIST HAD HIS JOHN, AND I HAVE MY GEE.”JAM VI AND I (C.1605)A 2007 PAPER BY CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS DONALD CAPPS AND NATHAN STEVEN CARL, “THE HOMOSEXUAL TENNCI OF KG JAM: SHOULD THIS MATTER TO BIBLE REARS TODAY?,” TRI TO TALK CHRISTIANS THROUGH THE EVINCE.A DIFFICULT TASK.2. GEE FRERIC HANL (1685–1759)
(RNS) — As whe evangelil nomatns double down on their opposn to equaly, many younger evangelils, gay and straight, are votg wh their feet. * evangelical gay *
“Most people know and love someone who’s openly gay, ” said Julie Rodgers, a Christian wrer, activist and lbian whose story is featured the new documentary on Netflix, “Pray Away.
In ntrast wh most male Prottant nomatns where LGBTQ members are routely ordaed and their marriag solemnized church (the Uned Methodist Church beg the exceptn), whe evangelil nomatns such as the Southern Baptist Conventn, the Prbyterian Church Ameri, the Anglin Church North Ameri and dozens of others have risted offerg gay people equaly. Ellt Rossomme, a 26-year-old gay man who had been attendg a nonnomatnal evangelil church while studyg for a graduate gree chemistry at the Universy of California, Berkeley, ma the break two years ago.
CAN YOU BE GAY-VANGELIL?
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A relign has s secretsIf you thought that queer men the Evangelil world were jt the closeted choir directors of Southern Baptist church — well, you’d be ‘Pri’ month, I’m thkg about a difficult place to be gay, gayish or otherwise ‘queer’: Ameri’s largt relign. Sometim I even get a ltle giddy and refer to homosexualy as ‘the Kg Jam Perversn’ I was the English kg who sponsored the ‘Kg Jam Versn’, or KJV, which beme the sacred text of Prottantism. 1605)A 2007 paper by Christian scholars Donald Capps and Nathan Steven Carl, “The Homosexual Tennci of Kg Jam: Should this Matter to Bible Rears Today?, ” tri to talk Christians through the evince.
The great diversy prent among fundamentalist and leralist Christians, relative to the small number of Bible passag that actually mentn homosexual activy, leav a lot of room for someone to be an LGBTQ+ fundamentalist Christian. A lifelong unselor, teacher and tor, havg worked elementary and sendary tn for 25 years, Gary Simpson is a member of the Canadian Counselg and Psychotherapy Associatn and has spoken and led workshops on gay-straight allianc, bullyg, spirual self-fense, gay Christian inty, and the needs of GLBT youth and young adults.
The bill, bis crimalizg homosexualy, also crimaliz the “promotn” and "abettg" of homosexualy and follows a January parliamentary vtigatn to an alleged promotn of homosexualy schools. The bill, bis crimalizg homosexualy, also crimaliz the “promotn” and “abettg” of homosexualy and follows a January parliamentary vtigatn to an alleged promotn of homosexualy schools.
LGBT RIGHTS AI: WILL KENYA BE THE LATT TO PASS ANTI-GAY LAW?
In the vio, 26-year-old Elisha Misa, who is reported to have been prevly imprisoned on filement charg, speaks for a ltle over eight mut tailg how he was lured as a mor to actg gay porn by Sexual Mori Uganda (SMUG)—a nonernmental anizatn (NGO) based Kampala workg to support and fend LGBTQ+ persons the untry. The send reason the vio kdled my tert was that add to the growg list of stanc of mass media beg weaponized Uganda to propagate the “ex-gay” narrative, which a person claims to have been “lured” and “reced” to homosexualy. From the days of European lonialism, when sodomy warranted the ath penalty, the church has been the face of the anti-LGBTQ+ movement and has ployed language and amg nsistent wh prent-day ex-gay movements.
COMG OUT AS A GAY EVANGELIL CHRISTIAN - LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH REFLECTN BY PAM GOLD
When the pro-nversn therapy Christian group Exod Internatnal put Yvette Cantu Schneir and other ex-gay spokpeople on TV the 2000s to talk about beg formerly gay, was bee of such beliefs. The prodigal son parable has propped up the ex-gay movement Uganda, ensurg there are open arms to gay people who n speak about prevly beg that life of “s” and nounce their gayns publicly. In the early 2000s, Amerin evangelil Stt Lively was part of a seri of anti-gay events that culmated Uganda’s 2009 “Kill the gays” bill, which lled for the ath penalty for what scribed as “aggravated homosexualy.
Schmierer spoke on a lack of good upbrgg as a e of homosexualy and was quoted as sayg that 56 percent of homosexuals experienced abe as children, which turned them to homosexuals. That same rhetoric drawg nnectns between homosexualy and pedophilia has remaed largely unchanged om how evangelils created panic around gay people the early days of the anti-gay movement. Preacher Jerry Falwell scribed gay people as out to “rec, ” sayg “many of them are out after my children and your children” and that they “mt not be reced to a profane liftyle.
However, claimg that homosexualy is uniquely Wtern offers the Uned Stat’ ex-gay movement the opportuny to prent self as beg on the right si of history, as beg close to the sourc of “moral nce” but still ristg . They require an enemy for their fight to be valid, and they go to great lengths to nstct this enemy as a well-fund and all-powerful foreign movement while falsely prentg the lol anti-gay movement as a grassroots unrdog, spe s heavy reliance on U. Image source, Getty ImagIn the latt sign of risg homophobia different Ain untri, a Kenyan opposn MP is leadg a mpaign for parliament to further crimalise the untry's small LGBTQ muny.
MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
Gee Peter Kaluma's move after neighbourg Uganda adopted a tough new anti-gay law, rejectg threats by US Print Joe Bin to impose sanctns and travel rtrictns on "anyone volved ser human rights ab".
"We want to prohib everythg to do wh homosexualy, " Mr Kaluma tells me, addg that his bill will be much broar than the legislatn passed by Uganda's parliament and approved by Print Yoweri Meveni May. The Ugandan law is regard as one of the harsht anti-LGBTQ laws the propos life imprisonment for anyone nvicted of homosexualy, and the ath penalty for so-lled aggravated s, which clu havg gay sex wh someone below the age of 18 or where someone be fected wh a life-long illns such as the other si of the ntent, MPs Ghana earlier this month unanimoly voted favour of amendments to the untry's anti-gay legislatn, phg closer to beg enacted to law.
Though ls harsh than Uganda's new law, the Promotn of Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Fay Valu Bill propos a three-year prison sentence for anyone who intifi as LGBTQ and a 10-year sentence for anyone who promot homosexualy. Gay sex is already illegal Kenya, but the ernment n also be tolerant of gay people - for example, has given asylum to people om other Ain untri, cludg Uganda, who faced persecutn their home untri bee of their sexual orientatn. Image source, Getty ImagImage ptn, Many Kenyans believe that gay rights are agast their relign - whether Christian or MlimAlthough the meetg Uganda was billed as an attempt to protect the "sovereignty" of Ain stat, was actually -sponsored by an Amerin Christian right-wg anisatn, Fay Watch Internatnal (FWI) Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian prit the Anglin Church and an amic at Boston Universy the US, says Ain untri are beg targeted by FWI and siar US-based anisatns, and that the impact of s lobbyg has been "horrible and humane" parts of Ai, fuellg what he lls "ant homophobia".