Dr. Ken Hutcherson, the pastor of Antch Bible Church Redmond, Wash., posted an announcement earlier this week that many close to him – cludg his wife – have known for years. Hutcherson revealed that he is the "gayt man I know."
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- COMG OUT AS A GAY EVANGELIL CHRISTIAN - LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH REFLECTN BY PAM GOLD
- 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)
- FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
- EVANGELIL PASTOR KEN HUTCHERSON: 'I AM THE GAYT MAN I KNOW'
- 10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI
- MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
- EVANGELILS WH GAY CHILDREN CHALLENGE CHURCH
- TOP 5 ANTI-GAY MISTERS ACCED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL
- EVANGELILS ARE CHANGG THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
COMG OUT AS A GAY EVANGELIL CHRISTIAN - LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH REFLECTN BY PAM GOLD
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). * gay evangelical preacher *
FOR LGBT+ History Month, Pam Gold, former Co-Convenor of the Evangelil Fellowship of Lbian & Gay Christians (EFLGC), and founr of two Open Table muni, shar her story of g out and beg an Evangelil gay out.
I knew what others had said about ‘gays’ as I was growg up, but I uld fight no more, I prayed ‘please God if this is real then brg someone to speak to me’ my surprise the next week I got chattg to a patient (I’m an optometrist) and she me out to me - she said she felt that I need to hear . I ntacted an anisatn lled LGCM (Lbian & Gay Christian Movement, now OneBodyOneFah) and I was sent a bundle of urage my heart and hope for somethg new I went along to a gay Christian group Manchter, where I was the only woman!
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)
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! I gus mt be… * gay evangelical preacher *
Neverthels, they put me touch wh a uple of women and, through them, I went along to Metropolan Communy Church (MCC), also known as ‘the gay church’ first urageo steps set me on the path to disvery of beg an ‘out and proud’ lbian Christian wh a ep and meangful relatnship wh God. 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.
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. '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.
FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
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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. Several of Jen Hatmaker's books have been produced by LifeWay's B&H Publishg, who announced they would no longer work wh her after she changed her stance on gay marriageFacebook / Jen Hatmaker.
EVANGELIL PASTOR KEN HUTCHERSON: 'I AM THE GAYT MAN I KNOW'
Gay revelatns were a disaster for a hero of US evangelils. Now he has lnched a new church his garn * gay evangelical preacher *
In an terview wh Relign News Service she said: 'From a spirual perspective, sce gay marriage is legal all 50 stat, our muni have plenty of gay upl who, jt like the rt of , need marriage support and parentg help and Christian muny.
'In Augt of 2013, on a sunny day at the beach, I realized I no longer believed the tradnal [church] teachgs regardg homosexualy, ' Cortez said a letter published on Patheos blog.
10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI
(RNS) — As whe evangelil nomatns double down on their opposn to equaly, many younger evangelils, gay and straight, are votg wh their feet. * gay evangelical preacher *
He and Jam Hansen, one of his mistry lears who is married wh three children, are challengg others, pecially evangelils, to e forward and also adm that they are the thg is Hutcherson is not a homosexual, nor do the happily married man have a same-sex attractn of any kd. '"READ: REAL ANSWERS TO REAL QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE AND BEING GAYWATCH VIDEO OF KEN HUTCHERSON SAYING GAY MARRIAGE IS NOT GOOD FOR SOCIETYWATCH VIDEO OF KEN HUTCHERSON'S AMAZING TESTIMONY ON BECOMING A CHRISTIAN AND OVERCOMING RACISM Free Relig Freedom UpdatJo thoands of others to get the FREEDOM POST newsletter for ee, sent twice a week om The Christian Post. Haggard, once Ameri's leadg evangelil pastor, who was brought down and removed om his own mega-church after admtg to a gay sex sndal, has set up a new mistry and will hold the first service his new church wife, Gayle, who has stood by him throughout his troubl, will be the church's -pastor.
Haggard now says he is heterosexual, but had gay urg bee he was molted by a man when he was a Haggard says he wants gays and bisexuals to e to his new church, whose first few meetgs will be held the garn of his suburban home. Louie Gigl beg removed om givg the benedictn at the Ingural addrs over his past anti-gay ments serv to remd everyone that gay bashg is still a favore past-time certa evangelil Christian to anti-gay pastors specifilly, there are those wh feelgs of hate and those wh somethg so far off the wall that you wonr if supernatural mon posssn is to blame.
” Addnally, he flted this "unnatural behavr" wh spreadg disease and nfg children about proper genr pro-gay groups and supporters submted a petn llg for him to apologize and take his post down, Gipson ignored them and doubled down.
MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
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When he’s really hont, he’s quick to remd you that gays are g after your children and your grandchildren and sexually transmted diseas are God’s punishment for ’s not jt a Christian though, he’s also a patrt.
” Yup, that’ll teach ‘em, pecially bee nothg says “my son is gay” like a limp d of his sermon leaked onle, Fahful Ameri gathered 10, 000 signatur om people pletely appalled by Harris’ statements. The lear of the famo Wtboro Baptist Church regularly pickets ary funerals, polil ralli, and gay pri gathergs to spread the msage that the bloodshed Iraq and Afghanistan is God’s punishment for toleratg gays.
EVANGELILS WH GAY CHILDREN CHALLENGE CHURCH
After losg son, Rob and Lda Robertson try to change church policy while helpg other evangelil parents accept their gay children * gay evangelical preacher *
No stranger to ntroversy, the host of the 700 Club has done some outrageo thgs on his show like enuragg a father to seek anti-gay nversn therapy for his gay son, as well as pare gay marriage wh polygamy, btialy, and pedophilia.
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.
TOP 5 ANTI-GAY MISTERS ACCED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL
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.
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.
EVANGELILS ARE CHANGG THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
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. 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 .