(RNS) 'I never wanted to be gay,' Trey Pearson said. 'I was sred of what God would thk and what all of the people I loved would thk about me.'
Contents:
- PROMENT CHRISTIAN SGER COM OUT OF THE CLOSET AS GAY! WHO IS IT?
- CHRISTIAN ROCK STAR OUT AS GAY. HERE’S THE LETTER HE WROTE TO THE WORLD
- IS TOBY MAC GAY?
PROMENT CHRISTIAN SGER COM OUT OF THE CLOSET AS GAY! WHO IS IT?
* tobymac gay *
Instead, this Christian sger me out of the closet as gay. Back April, she attend an event supportg gay marriage. Now she’s g theologil trag to change church views on gays and lbians:.
Are you like her and believe that God lov and accepts everyone spe their sexual orientatn or is she missg val knowledge om the Holy Bible that still shows homosexualy, as well as her views of J’ love, is not necsarily wrong, but plete? What do you thk of SCOTUS lg on gay marriage?
Our Missn Fosterg pri and rpect for all lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muni, lolly, natnally, and globally. But he cid to put his reer on the le this week and acknowledge to his fans that he is gay.
CHRISTIAN ROCK STAR OUT AS GAY. HERE’S THE LETTER HE WROTE TO THE WORLD
“I never wanted to be gay, ” he tells (614). “I was not makg an optn to be gay so I uld be loyal to her and my children, ” he told me. But he cid to put his reer on the le this week and acknowledge to his fans that he is gay.
His study of the Scriptur, he says, has led him to believe that the handful of Bible vers that directly addrs homosexualy do not prohib the kd of lovg, mted gay relatnships known to the morn world. Pearson’s shift plac him the center of a growg movement of popular Christian micians who are g out as gay and are advotg for a more open and acceptg posture the church. Ray Boltz, whose songs were stapl evangelil church throughout the 1990s, me out as gay 2004.
Grammy-nomated Anthony Williams beme the first openly gay gospel artist 2009. Sce Christian mic fans tend to be nservative and believe that homosexual acts are sful, you won’t hear the artists’ mic played most church or on Christian rad the days. He will perform at Wild Goose, the Christian ftival July, and hop to bee a voice wh the burgeong “gay Christian” movement.
IS TOBY MAC GAY?
To make an extremely long story short, I have e to be able to adm to myself, and to my fay, that I am gay. I had never before admted to myself that I was gay, let alone to anyone else.
I never wanted to be gay.
I have tried not to be gay for more than 20 years of my life. Tryg not to be gay, has only led to a sire for timacy iendships which phed iends away, and has rulted a marriage where I uldn’t love or satisfy my wife a way that she need. I am never gog to be able to change how I am, and no matter how healthy our relatnship be, ’s never gog to change what I know ep down: that I am gay.