Oprah Giv Platform to Pastor Joel Osteen’s Anti-Gay Views – The Hollywood Reporter

Contents:

• IS JOEL OSTEEN GETTG DIVORCED? IS HE GAY?
• PASTOR JOEL OSTEEN TO OPRAH: HOMOSEXUALY IS S — BUT GAY PEOPLE WILL GET INTO HEAVEN
• JOEL OSTEEN'S GAY PROBLEM: THE RELIG RIGHT IS HISTORY IF HE N'T SOLVE
• JOEL OSTEEN: STRAIGHT, GAY, GOOD OR BAD – ALL ARE WELE
• JOEL OSTEEN TALKS PREACHG S, MATERIALISM, AND GAY MARRIAGE
• OPRAH GIV PLATFORM TO PASTOR JOEL OSTEEN’S ANTI-GAY VIEWS
• GAY MARRIAGE AND HOMOSEXUALY: WHAT HAVE JOEL OSTEEN, BILLY AND FRANKL GRAHAM, JOYCE MEYER, TD JAK AND OTHER TOP PASTORS SAID ON THE SUBJECTSEVANGELIST, REVEREND FRANKL GRAHAM RECENTLY PARTICIPATED A NEWS PANEL DISCSN WHICH HE ANSWERED QUTNS ON HOMOSEXUALY. SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR EVANGELILS AMERI HAVE SHARED A SIAR BIBLIL POSN AS GRAHAM PAST TERVIEWS.JOEL OSTEEN, JOYCE MEYERS, T.D. JAK AND MORE, LIKE GRAHAM, HAVE OPENLY SHARED THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE DIVISIVE SUBJECT, AND  THEY HAVE ED THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF SCRIPTURE TO SHED A LIGHT ON WHAT GOD THKS AND HOW THE BIBLE GUIS WH REGARDS TO S AND HOMOSEXUALY.DURG THE ABC SEGMENT WH RSELL MOORE, RALPH REED AND COKIE ROBERTS, LAST WEEK, GRAHAM WAS QUTNED ON WHETHER HIS POSN ON HOMOSEXUALY REMAED THE SAME OM PAST TERVIEWS."FRANKL GRAHAM IS A SNER," THE SON OF BILLY GRAHAM SAID, "AND I'M NO BETTER THAN A GAY PERSON. I'M A SNER. BUT I'VE BEEN FIVEN, AND I'VE TURNED OM MY SS. FOR ANY PERSON THAT'S WILLG TO REPENT TURN, GOD WILL FIVE."POPULAR PASTOR JOEL OSTEEN, WHO LEADS THE LARGT CHURCH AMERI, IS KNOWN FOR HIS MOTIVATNAL MSAG THAT ARE WELL LOVED THE LGBT MUNY. THE PASTOR HAS BEEN KNOWN TO TREAD LIGHTLY ON THE SUBJECT FORMER TERVIEWS, BUT ULTIMATELY WHEN PHED ON THE TOPIC HE AGRE WH GRAHAM."I BELIEVE THAT SCRIPTURE SAYS THAT 'S A S BUT I ALWAYS FOLLOW THAT UP BY SAYG YOU KNOW WHAT, WE'RE NOT AGAST ANYBODY," OSTEEN SAID TO LARRY KG. "THERE'S A LOT OF THGS LARRY THAT I DON'T UNRSTAND - SO I JT DON'T WANT TO PREACH ON , PREACH ABOUT ."IN ANOTHER TERVIEW HE TOLD PIERS MAN, "I'M NOT AGAST ANYTHG." IN THAT SAME SEGMENT HE AND HIS WIFE VICTORIA SAID THAT THEY WOULD ATTEND A HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE.IN ANOTHER STANCE, OPRAH QUTNED MEGACHURCH PASTOR T.D. JAK ON THE MATTER AND HE SAID, "I'M NOT LLED TO GIVE MY OPN. I'M LLED AS A PASTOR TO GIVE THE SCRIPTURAL POSN ON ."THE PASTOR ADD, "DON'T MEAN THAT I HAVE TO AGREE WH YOU TO LOVE YOU. I DON'T DISLIKE ANYBODY. I LOVE EVERYBODY."WHEN ASKED IF BEG GAY IS A S HE REPLIED, "I THK THAT SEX BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX IS NMNED THE SCRIPTUR, AND AS LONG AS IS NMNED THE SCRIPTUR, I DON'T GET TO SAY WHAT I THK. I GET TO SAY WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS," JAK SAID. "I'M NOT ANTI-GAY, I'M NOT ANTI-ANYTHG. I DON'T WANT TO EVEN BE KNOWN BY WHAT I'M AGAST."YOU N HEAR JAK' RPONSE 24 MUT TO THE VIO BELOW:IN 2005 BELOVED CHARISMATIC THOR AND SPEAKER JOYCE MEYER TOLD LARRY KG ON HIS PROGRAM THAT SHE THKS 'S "A CHOICE.""OBVLY, LARRY, IF I BELIEVE THE BIBLE, THEN I DON'T BELIEVE THAT A GAY LIFTYLE OR A HOMOSEXUAL LIFTYLE IS THE RIGHT WAY TO CHOOSE TO LIVE. I BELIEVE THAT THERE'S SOMETHG SO MUCH BETTER," SHE SAID. "I BELIEVE 'S FELY A CHOICE. WELL, I THK THAT THAT'S THE NATURAL WAY THAT GOD TEND TO BE. I JT FOLLOWED THE NATURAL WAY THAT I WAS. I DIDN'T HAVE TO NSCLY THK, DO I WANT TO DO THIS OR DON'T I?"SCREEN-GRAB (PHOTO : SCREEN-GRAB )BT-SELLG THOR AND PASTOR RICK WARREN EXPLAED ON PIERS MAN, WHILE HE MAY DISAGREE WH PEOPLE ON THEIR VIEWS ON SEXUALY, HE DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO MEAN, TO MORALIZE, OR FAME ANYONE AND TURN THEM TO A MON.WARREN THOUGH, DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE BIBLE FN OF MARRIAGE AS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN SHOULD BE CHANGED. HE ADD, "I DON'T THK OTHER GROUPS GET THE OPPORTUNY TO REFE A TERM. I FEAR THE DISAPPROVAL OF GOD MORE THAN I FEAR YOUR DISAPPROVAL OR THE DISAPPROVAL OF SOCIETY."COLORADO EVANGELIL PASTOR TED HAGGARD, WAS VOLVED A SAME-SEX AND DG SNDAL SIX YEARS AGO. DURG AN ONLE BATE 2012 THE NTROVERSIAL PASTOR SAID, "IF SOMEONE IS ALG WH SAME-SEX ATTRACTN OR HOMOSEXUALY, AND THEY WANT SOMEONE TO BE THEIR LIFE PARTNER OF THE SAME GENR, THOUGH WE WOULD OPPOSE THAT OUR CHURCH, SHOULD BE ALLOWED BY THE STATE."DPE ALL HE'D BEEN THROUGH AND EXPERIENCED HIMSELF, HAGGARD MATAED THAT GOD TEND MARRIAGE TO BE BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, BUT HE BELIEV THE ROL OF THE STATE AND RELIG MUNI ARE DIFFERENT.RPECTED AND WORLD-RENOWNED EVANGELIST, PASTOR BILLY GRAHAM, FATHER OF FRANKL GRAHAM, PREVLY ISSUED A STATEMENT REGARDG THE MARRIAGE PROTECTN AMENDMENT MNOTA AFFIRMG THAT HE IS FOR THE ORIGAL FN OF MARRIAGE. "I PRAY THAT THE GOOD PEOPLE OF MNOTA WILL SHOW THEIR SUPPORT FOR GOD'S FN OF MARRIAGE, BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN. I WHOLEHEARTEDLY ENDORSE THE MARRIAGE PROTECTN AMENDMENT," THE STATEMENT READ. "WATCHG THE MORAL CLE OF OUR UNTRY ME GREAT NCERN, I BELIEVE THE HOME AND MARRIAGE IS THE FOUNDATN OF OUR SOCIETY AND MT BE PROTECTED."THIS IS WHAT THE PASTORS HAD TO SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE AND SCRIPTURE, NOW WHAT DO YOU THK ABOUT ACRDANCE WH WHAT THE BIBLE TEACH?LATEST NEWS

IS JOEL OSTEEN GETTG DIVORCED? IS HE GAY?

Lakewood Church Pastor Affirms Biblil View on Homosexualy as S CNN InterviewEvangelil Christian pastor Joel Osteen attempted to fend his views on homosexualy a televised terview Thursday, sayg that he believ homosexualy is a s and not "God's bt. Soledad O'Brien, host of CNN's "Startg Pot, " then steered the nversatn toward the subject of homosexualy, askg Osteen if he believ that homosexualy is a rpond by tellg O'Brien that although he do believe that homosexualy is a s acrdg to the Bible, he do not foc on the subject his sermons as much as he do terviews.

""I don't thk [homosexualy is] God's bt, " he add. O'Brien then asked Osteen, "You would say, the Scripture says homosexualy is a s? "Do you thk you n choose to be gay or not gay?

… I don't know where the fe le is, but I do try to stay my lane, " Osteen has often been cricized the past for not speakg firmly on some issu, cludg the topics of homosexualy and has repeatedly affirmed that he choos to stay away om heated topics bee he wants to make himself, as a man of God, accsible to people of all orientatns and beliefs. This clus his divorce ntroversy and gay stori. Joel isn’t Anti-Gay.

PASTOR JOEL OSTEEN TO OPRAH: HOMOSEXUALY IS S — BUT GAY PEOPLE WILL GET INTO HEAVEN

However, an terview on the show ‘Larry Kg now, ’ he spoke on homosexualy. Larry quired Osteen about his thoughts on gay marriage and homosexuals.

JOEL OSTEEN'S GAY PROBLEM: THE RELIG RIGHT IS HISTORY IF HE N'T SOLVE

And he said that sce we don’t know about the e of homosexualy or heterosexualy, we nnot say for sure. Furthermore, Joel says he is not agast Gay marriage. Osteen Ref the Invatn om the Gay Group.

JOEL OSTEEN: STRAIGHT, GAY, GOOD OR BAD – ALL ARE WELE

Joel Osteen Says God Accept Gay.

There the host prsed him on his changg views on the gay muny. Joel Osteen is not Gay.

Even though he approv of Gay marriage and thks God accepts everyone, he is a straight person. There are many stanc where the pastor left his views favor of Gays and Lbians. He approv of the gay muny and thks they too have a place society, even though the Christian scriptur believe ’s a s.

JOEL OSTEEN TALKS PREACHG S, MATERIALISM, AND GAY MARRIAGE

However, this don’t necsarily make him a Gay.

Joel’s gay mors are jt mors. On Sunday eveng, Oprah Wey terviewed Osteen on her new program, “Oprah’s Next Chapter, ” where he lved eply to his views on homosexualy and s.

OPRAH GIV PLATFORM TO PASTOR JOEL OSTEEN’S ANTI-GAY VIEWS

“Will a gay person be accepted to heaven, as you see ?, ” Oprah asked the famed pastor.

”Sometim we look at gay beg a bigger s than beg proud or not tellg the tth.

”Here, Osteen ma clear that he believ homosexualy is sful. But Oprah phed him a b harr to solidify his stance, askg, “Do that mean that you’re sayg that you believe that beg gay is a s?

GAY MARRIAGE AND HOMOSEXUALY: WHAT HAVE JOEL OSTEEN, BILLY AND FRANKL GRAHAM, JOYCE MEYER, TD JAK AND OTHER TOP PASTORS SAID ON THE SUBJECTSEVANGELIST, REVEREND FRANKL GRAHAM RECENTLY PARTICIPATED A NEWS PANEL DISCSN WHICH HE ANSWERED QUTNS ON HOMOSEXUALY. SOME OF THE WORLD'S MOST POPULAR EVANGELILS AMERI HAVE SHARED A SIAR BIBLIL POSN AS GRAHAM PAST TERVIEWS.JOEL OSTEEN, JOYCE MEYERS, T.D. JAK AND MORE, LIKE GRAHAM, HAVE OPENLY SHARED THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE DIVISIVE SUBJECT, AND  THEY HAVE ED THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF SCRIPTURE TO SHED A LIGHT ON WHAT GOD THKS AND HOW THE BIBLE GUIS WH REGARDS TO S AND HOMOSEXUALY.DURG THE ABC SEGMENT WH RSELL MOORE, RALPH REED AND COKIE ROBERTS, LAST WEEK, GRAHAM WAS QUTNED ON WHETHER HIS POSN ON HOMOSEXUALY REMAED THE SAME OM PAST TERVIEWS."FRANKL GRAHAM IS A SNER," THE SON OF BILLY GRAHAM SAID, "AND I'M NO BETTER THAN A GAY PERSON. I'M A SNER. BUT I'VE BEEN FIVEN, AND I'VE TURNED OM MY SS. FOR ANY PERSON THAT'S WILLG TO REPENT TURN, GOD WILL FIVE."POPULAR PASTOR JOEL OSTEEN, WHO LEADS THE LARGT CHURCH AMERI, IS KNOWN FOR HIS MOTIVATNAL MSAG THAT ARE WELL LOVED THE LGBT MUNY. THE PASTOR HAS BEEN KNOWN TO TREAD LIGHTLY ON THE SUBJECT FORMER TERVIEWS, BUT ULTIMATELY WHEN PHED ON THE TOPIC HE AGRE WH GRAHAM."I BELIEVE THAT SCRIPTURE SAYS THAT 'S A S BUT I ALWAYS FOLLOW THAT UP BY SAYG YOU KNOW WHAT, WE'RE NOT AGAST ANYBODY," OSTEEN SAID TO LARRY KG. "THERE'S A LOT OF THGS LARRY THAT I DON'T UNRSTAND - SO I JT DON'T WANT TO PREACH ON , PREACH ABOUT ."IN ANOTHER TERVIEW HE TOLD PIERS MAN, "I'M NOT AGAST ANYTHG." IN THAT SAME SEGMENT HE AND HIS WIFE VICTORIA SAID THAT THEY WOULD ATTEND A HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE.IN ANOTHER STANCE, OPRAH QUTNED MEGACHURCH PASTOR T.D. JAK ON THE MATTER AND HE SAID, "I'M NOT LLED TO GIVE MY OPN. I'M LLED AS A PASTOR TO GIVE THE SCRIPTURAL POSN ON ."THE PASTOR ADD, "DON'T MEAN THAT I HAVE TO AGREE WH YOU TO LOVE YOU. I DON'T DISLIKE ANYBODY. I LOVE EVERYBODY."WHEN ASKED IF BEG GAY IS A S HE REPLIED, "I THK THAT SEX BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE OF THE SAME SEX IS NMNED THE SCRIPTUR, AND AS LONG AS IS NMNED THE SCRIPTUR, I DON'T GET TO SAY WHAT I THK. I GET TO SAY WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS," JAK SAID. "I'M NOT ANTI-GAY, I'M NOT ANTI-ANYTHG. I DON'T WANT TO EVEN BE KNOWN BY WHAT I'M AGAST."YOU N HEAR JAK' RPONSE 24 MUT TO THE VIO BELOW:IN 2005 BELOVED CHARISMATIC THOR AND SPEAKER JOYCE MEYER TOLD LARRY KG ON HIS PROGRAM THAT SHE THKS 'S "A CHOICE.""OBVLY, LARRY, IF I BELIEVE THE BIBLE, THEN I DON'T BELIEVE THAT A GAY LIFTYLE OR A HOMOSEXUAL LIFTYLE IS THE RIGHT WAY TO CHOOSE TO LIVE. I BELIEVE THAT THERE'S SOMETHG SO MUCH BETTER," SHE SAID. "I BELIEVE 'S FELY A CHOICE. WELL, I THK THAT THAT'S THE NATURAL WAY THAT GOD TEND TO BE. I JT FOLLOWED THE NATURAL WAY THAT I WAS. I DIDN'T HAVE TO NSCLY THK, DO I WANT TO DO THIS OR DON'T I?"SCREEN-GRAB (PHOTO : SCREEN-GRAB )BT-SELLG THOR AND PASTOR RICK WARREN EXPLAED ON PIERS MAN, WHILE HE MAY DISAGREE WH PEOPLE ON THEIR VIEWS ON SEXUALY, HE DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO MEAN, TO MORALIZE, OR FAME ANYONE AND TURN THEM TO A MON.WARREN THOUGH, DO NOT BELIEVE THAT THE BIBLE FN OF MARRIAGE AS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN SHOULD BE CHANGED. HE ADD, "I DON'T THK OTHER GROUPS GET THE OPPORTUNY TO REFE A TERM. I FEAR THE DISAPPROVAL OF GOD MORE THAN I FEAR YOUR DISAPPROVAL OR THE DISAPPROVAL OF SOCIETY."COLORADO EVANGELIL PASTOR TED HAGGARD, WAS VOLVED A SAME-SEX AND DG SNDAL SIX YEARS AGO. DURG AN ONLE BATE 2012 THE NTROVERSIAL PASTOR SAID, "IF SOMEONE IS ALG WH SAME-SEX ATTRACTN OR HOMOSEXUALY, AND THEY WANT SOMEONE TO BE THEIR LIFE PARTNER OF THE SAME GENR, THOUGH WE WOULD OPPOSE THAT OUR CHURCH, SHOULD BE ALLOWED BY THE STATE."DPE ALL HE'D BEEN THROUGH AND EXPERIENCED HIMSELF, HAGGARD MATAED THAT GOD TEND MARRIAGE TO BE BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, BUT HE BELIEV THE ROL OF THE STATE AND RELIG MUNI ARE DIFFERENT.RPECTED AND WORLD-RENOWNED EVANGELIST, PASTOR BILLY GRAHAM, FATHER OF FRANKL GRAHAM, PREVLY ISSUED A STATEMENT REGARDG THE MARRIAGE PROTECTN AMENDMENT MNOTA AFFIRMG THAT HE IS FOR THE ORIGAL FN OF MARRIAGE. "I PRAY THAT THE GOOD PEOPLE OF MNOTA WILL SHOW THEIR SUPPORT FOR GOD'S FN OF MARRIAGE, BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN. I WHOLEHEARTEDLY ENDORSE THE MARRIAGE PROTECTN AMENDMENT," THE STATEMENT READ. "WATCHG THE MORAL CLE OF OUR UNTRY ME GREAT NCERN, I BELIEVE THE HOME AND MARRIAGE IS THE FOUNDATN OF OUR SOCIETY AND MT BE PROTECTED."THIS IS WHAT THE PASTORS HAD TO SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE AND SCRIPTURE, NOW WHAT DO YOU THK ABOUT ACRDANCE WH WHAT THE BIBLE TEACH?LATEST NEWS

”“I believe that homosexualy is shown as a s the scripture, ” he rpond. I don‘t thk anybody’s send class, ” Osteen ntued, as he explaed that the bible’s msage on the matter, his view, is this dialogue, below:Osteen’s ma pot addrsg the issue, though, was that homosexualy, should be nsired a s, isn’t any different om other offens.

In his view, shouldn’t be raised above the other ss that dividuals ma siar statements to CNN’s Piers Man back October, though he also ma headl for sayg that he would, out of rpect, attend a gay weddg support of a close iend or fay member. The anti-gay posn of mastream Christiany has fallen out of favor wh the public.

Every reputable poll currently shows unntted majory support for gay marriage.