David Gura speaks wh Rev. Kimberly Stt about last week's meetg of the Uned Methodist Church's Council of Bishops and s impedg vote on whether to orda gay pastors.
Contents:
- 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
- A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
- PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE
TEXAS PASTOR SAYS GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE 'SHOT THE BACK OF THE HEAD' SHOCKG SERMON
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Earlier this year, Towne View lost s relatnship wh the Southern Baptist Conventn (SBC) and almost half s membership, along wh their du, as a rult of Conrad’s cisn 2019 to accept a gay uple and their three children as members of Towne View. Would Reynolds, as an openly gay man, be weled to Towne View wh his partner, John McClanah, and their three children?
He and McClanah were eager to raise their sons, then ag 7, 9 and 11, the Southern Baptist tradn that meant so much to them, but unrstood the difficulty their fay would face fdg a ngregatn given the SBC’s stnch posn agast homosexualy.
“When one of our church choos to affirm or endorse homosexual behavr through their fn of regenerate church membership, we have clearly e to a different unrstandg on what we believe is an sential doctre, ” JD Greear, SBC print and pastor of The Summ Church, said an email statement to CNN. Brockton Bat, a 24-year-old om Dallas, Geia, said he and his partner have also found sanctuary wh Towne View, after years of stgglg to fd his place the church as an openly gay man. Bat said he began to really unrstand the church’s msagg on homosexualy after g out middle school to his parents, who took him to a unselor to “pray the gay away.
HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
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 "l * lgbt pastor *
“It was pafully clear the muny I was volved would not love me the same if I were to emphatilly say, ‘hey, I’m gay, ’ and this is how is, ” Bat said. Conrad’s beliefs of acceptance were at the foreont of Easter servic this past weekend where he said the signifince of havg openly gay parishners such as Bat lead worship ls than two months after beg disfellowshipped was not lost on him. “To be openly gay wh my partner, to take part holy munn is a blsg, ” Bat said.
A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
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. * lgbt pastor *
Kimberly Stt about last week's meetg of the Uned Methodist Church's Council of Bishops and s impedg vote on whether to orda gay pastors. The Uned Methodist nomatn has over 6 ln members the Uned Stat, and they're divid over the qutn of ordag gay misters.
She left the church for seven years and me back to be s first Black, female, openly gay pastor, and she jos now om Phoenix. KIMBERLY SCOTT: Thank you, So this bate over ordag gay clergy has been gog on for a while, sce the late '60s.
And then the other part was always send-gusg myself - whether or not I was supposed to be open about my sexual orientatn, whether or not I was supposed to play the game of don't ask, don't Jt so that I'm clear, is the church's official stance on homosexualy today ambiguo or is pretty clearly fed and you'd like to see changed?
PASTOR SAYS 'SOLUTN' TO GAY PEOPLE IS EXECUTNS: IT'S THE BIBLE
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. * lgbt pastor *
It clearly stat that you nnot be an openly-practicg homosexual and be ordaed the Uned Methodist Church. It also stat that although all human begs are of sacred worth, homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg.
S., church have gone beyond what the Book of Disciple says to make the church open and accsible to gay and lbian clergy like Do you know other pastors who aren't as open as you or haven't been able to be as open as you - have ma this choice to keep this important si of their liv quiet or secret om their ngregatns? The bate around homosexualy is not somethg that most Ain and third-world untri are - really re about. She has two gay brothers, a lbian sister and a transgenr son.
This victory reflects recent pollg that shows that majori of all relig groups are favor of “broad nondiscrimatn protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people. As a gay man, Grav-Fzsimmons has wrten on the signifince of his own marriage phg him closer to God. Grav-Fzsimmons told the thors that, “Intifyg as both a Christian and a gay man mak me eply mted to the work of llective liberatn.