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Contents:
- A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
- TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
- HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
- NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE ORDAS OPENLY GAY PASTOR
- COMO A IGREJA ANDADA POR ANDRé VALADãO PROMOVE A ABSURDA “CURA GAY”
- I'M A GAY, CELIBATE PASTOR OF A NSERVATIVE CHURCH. HERE'S A TRICK FOR -LATN.
- FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
- “I’M THE GAY PASTOR OF THE GAY CHURCH”
- GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
- IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
- 'QUEER EYE'S' FAB 5 HELPS GAY FISHTOWN PASTOR FD HIMSELF
- LUTHERAN GAY AND LBIAN PASTORS ARE 'REAL PEOPLE'
- REFLECTNS OM A CLOSETED GAY PASTOR
- FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER TO BE ORDAED BY PRBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) TOMORROW
- FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
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. * gay paster *
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 pastor gracly agreed to let me share his ment as blog post here. 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. 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. A Texas baptist church — labeled an "anti-LGBT hate group" by the Southern Poverty Law Center — has ed outrage after a pastor said gay people should be "led up agast the wall and shot the back of the head.
TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
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" Aw read several passag om the Bible and nmned homosexualy as a s.
At one pot, he told the ngregatn that gay people "are dangero to society" and said that "all homosexuals are pedophil. ""I’m not sayg that every sgle homosexual that’s alive right now has mted that act wh a child already bee uld be they haven’t had the opportuny yet and they will at some pot later their life, " he said.
HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
For nearly 20 years, Greg Johnson has served as a pastor to the ngregatn of Memorial Prbyterian Church St. Louis, which is part of the Prbyterian Church Ameri. Last year, the PCA attempted to ban clergy for intifyg as gay. * gay paster *
Aw told the room that he thks the "solutn for the homosexual 2022" is the ath penalty. Every sgle homosexual our untry should be charged wh a crime. The abomatn of homosexualy that they have, they should be nvicted a lawful trial.
NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE ORDAS OPENLY GAY PASTOR
I'm jt a gay atheist kid who fell love wh J and end up the lead pastor one of the most nservative evangelil nomatns. * gay paster *
"Enuragg the executn of gay persons is not protected speech. The church's ma pastor, Jonathan Shelley, fend Aw sayg a lengthy statement that Ameri has weakened "punishments for homosexualy. Greg Johnson scrib himself as a “gay atheist teenager” who fell for J — and found himself at the center of evangelil Christiany’s ternal battl over nearly 20 years, Johnson has pastored Memorial Prbyterian Church St.
He says he’s been gay and celibate the entire time. When he me out to his church, he said he received a standg ovatn and shouts of “We love you, Greg” om sce Johnson went public wh his orientatn Christiany Today, pastors his nomatn, the Prbyterian Church Ameri, have tried to banish clergy who intify as gay, even if they m to celibacy.
COMO A IGREJA ANDADA POR ANDRé VALADãO PROMOVE A ABSURDA “CURA GAY”
The pastor of an Atlanta megachurch wh thoands of followers, who was twice married and is a father of four, is speakg out about his recent cisn to publicly clare he is gay. * gay paster *
“I spent a lot of years nvcg myself that I was a straight man wh a disease lled homosexualy that uld be cured, ” Johnson said on Wednday’s St. ”The ln Johnson is referrg to are people who participated the so-lled “ex-gay movement, ” which centered on the theory that one n change sexual orientatn.
“I really believe that J lov gay people, and I want evangelil church to learn to say that and believe that, ” he said. Gay pastor Greg Johnson is fightg for the future of the PCA. Last year, Johnson released a book lled “Still Time To Care: What We Can Learn om the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexualy, ” which scrib the fall of the ex-gay movement.
I'M A GAY, CELIBATE PASTOR OF A NSERVATIVE CHURCH. HERE'S A TRICK FOR -LATN.
Is biblilly allowable for a pastor to be gay? Do beg gay disqualify a man om servg as a pastor? * gay paster *
”When the PCA nomatn voted last year on whether to keep gay people om beg clergy members, one observer wrote that the actn was signed to “prevent another Greg Johnson.
FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
Pastor Noah Hepler shar his story about fdg himself after g out as gay his 30s. * gay paster *
”More than 60% of regnal church bodi voted favor of barrg people who intify as gay om beg clergy, even if they do not engage sexual behavr. “My nstant fear is that somebody's gog to tell their kid, ‘Why n't you be one of the good gays like Greg Johnson?
”Johnson said there’s a huge need wh the evangelil church to tra parents and pastors to love gay youth whout tryg to ntrol them. “If you're gog to be a nomatn that says you n't have gay marriage, then you've got to provi alternate forms of muny, ” Johnson said. Graner, 57, is openly gay.
“I’M THE GAY PASTOR OF THE GAY CHURCH”
Preachg Out Loud: Wh Noah Hepler, Guy Erw, Megan Rohrer, Bobby Berk. The Fab Five help a timid gay pastor who me out his 30s update his look and fd the nfince to lead his ngregatn to the future." data-id="ma * gay paster *
Church law prohibs ordatn of “self-avowed practicg” homosexuals, but nference officials noted her sgle stat and said she qualified for ordatn. It me not long after she disvered she was gay.
“And I thought naively that by the time I got through high school and llege and semary, there wouldn’t be any problem wh beg an openly gay ordaed person The Uned Methodist Church. The Uned Methodist Church officially prevents “self-avowed practicg” homosexuals om servg as clergy.
GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
I’m a closeted gay man. When I first typed that sentence, felt good. The more I looked at on my screen, the ls good felt. I want the urage to lete the word “closeted” and to not nfe my claratn to wrten words that will never be attributed to me by name. I’m a closeted gay man, but of a different sort. I’m attracted to other men – always have been – but * gay paster *
Graner, while outspoken about beg gay, has been sgle sce her 28-year-partnership wh another woman end some years back. North Texas Conference Bishop Michael McKee said the nference’s Board of Ordaed Mistry and Clergy Conference were wh the Book of Disciple to approve her ordatn, given that she’s self-avowed but non-practicg her homosexualy. Other nferenc have ordaed openly gay persons, and Mounta Sky Area Bishop Karen Oliveto, a lbian married to another woman, was elected and nsecrated a bishop 2016.
Graner, 57, is believed to be the first openly gay person ordaed an elr eher of the southern jurisdictns of The Uned Methodist Church.
IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
Church law prohibs ordatn of “self-avowed practicg” homosexuals, but Graner is sgle, a fact North Texas Conference officials noted when asked about her ordatn. But Graner is glad her ordatn me this year, as The Uned Methodist Church has seen wispread ristance to 2019 General Conference, which strengthened official rtrictns agast same-sex unns and ordatn of self-profsed practicg homosexuals.
She has two gay brothers, a lbian sister and a transgenr son. ”In addn to the trans actor playg a female role, “Barbie” is also guilty of “phg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr character stori, ” acrdg to Moviegui, a Christian movie review se found by Ted and Lili Baehr. “I curse the name of the Lord this new Barbie movie that has been released full of transexual and transgenr and homosexualy, ” Christmas is heard sayg.
'QUEER EYE'S' FAB 5 HELPS GAY FISHTOWN PASTOR FD HIMSELF
’”Christian preacher Kent Christmas nmns the new Barbie movie for beg full of "transsexual and transgenr and homosexualy.
SOB HOLOFOTES - O midiáti Valadão: ataqu no púlpo à unida LGBTQIA+ e bate à homossexualida (@andrevaladaoofficial/Facebook).
LUTHERAN GAY AND LBIAN PASTORS ARE 'REAL PEOPLE'
Sem fazer alar, mas modo cisivo, a igreja andada por ele fen e promove uma suposta “reorientação” da sexualida, aberração nhecida o cura gay. A promoção da “cura gay” não é explíca. “Nossos retiros não são só para homossexuais, lésbis, sas isas, mas sempre trabalhamos a cura e a libertação terr, e mua gente sai rtrada”, rmou uma atennte do lol.
Ela nta que nas dâmis os participant são bombarados iias o as que “a homossexualida é o pedo extremo” e que quem se envolver em ato sexual ssa natureza “será nnado à morte eterna”. Hoje ligado a uma igreja progrsista, o pastor gay Bob Botelho, 29 anos, fundador da anização Evangélicxs pela Diversida, ada era missnár, em 2015, quando mergulhou numa crise.
Bu o retiro jtamente para “anular” sua homossexualida. D 1999, o Conselho Feral Psilogia proíbe que ss associados tratem a homossexualida o patologia.
REFLECTNS OM A CLOSETED GAY PASTOR
Com cultos equentados por famosos o o ex-jogador Kaká, o aprentador Silv Santos e o ntor Wley Safadão, Valadão vem afiando a pregação anti-gay pois que cru o movimento “Ds oia o ulho”, em junho, o mês do ulho LGBTQIA+.
Procurado pela reportagem, o pastor alegou em nota que suas palavras ntra os LGBTQIA+ foram distorcidas e que jamais timulou a vlência nem tampou a morte homossexuais, a quem diz dar “xíl pirual”. É importante enfatizar que o pastor jamais afirmou a ase “e Ds ixou o trabalho sujo para nós”, que faz referência à falsa iia que ele tava se referdo à morte homossexuais.
FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER TO BE ORDAED BY PRBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) TOMORROW
É válido lembrar que os religsos têm o direo se posicnar em relação a temas ntroversos, o o aborto e a homossexualida, s que fundamentem suas opiõ em ss prcíps religsos e não cem a vlência ou a discrimação. I'm jt a gay atheist kid who fell love wh J llege and end up the lead pastor of a historic Prbyterian church one of Ameri's most nservative evangelil nomatns.
Louis, is thor of "Still Time to Care: What We Can Learn om the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexualy. If you said someone was evangelil you knew pretty much what you were gettg – errancy of the Bible, importance of preachg, a foc on evangelism, warngs of hell and most of all – opposn to gay marriage. While still far om the mastream and the overwhelmg majory of self-scribed evangelils are still opposed to gay marriage, there are a growg list of pastors who scribe themselv as evangelil and yet support same sex upl.
FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
'It has taken untls hours of prayer, study, nversatn and emotnal turmoil to brg me to the place where I am fally ready to ll for the full acceptance of Christian gay upl to the Church, ' he wrote. 'Through [my wife] Peggy, I have e to know so many gay Christian upl whose relatnships work much the same way as our own. In a bate at San Francis's Grace Cathedral 2013, the thor and pastor Rob Bell, already discreded by many evangelils for his book Love Ws, gave a blanket endorsement of gay marriage.
An outspoken cric of the Relig Right and print of the Sojourners magaze, Jim Wallis reversed his stance on gay marriage an terview wh the Huffgton Post 2013.