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Contents:
- IN THIS SGAPOREAN CHURCH, YOU CAN BE HAPPY AND GAY
- IN SGAPORE, A CHRISTIAN GROUP AIMS TO HELP LGBTQ INDIVIDUALS ‘OVERE’ BEG GAY
- SGAPORE GAY VENU: NTEMPORARY
IN THIS SGAPOREAN CHURCH, YOU CAN BE HAPPY AND GAY
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Photo: Ko Lyn Cheang“We are a Christian Church, first and foremost, not a gay Church, ” said Siew, who spent three years pletg a Masters Divy at the Pacific School of Relign Berkeley, California. The Methodist Church Sgapore's Bishop Gordon Wong told VICE that the Methodist Church's posn is that “the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachgs, ” but said celibate romantic same-sex relatnships are "theoretilly" permissible.
Intellectual, well-read, and “radil, ” said Pastor Siew, the foundg members were active Sgapore’s fledgg gay and lbian liberatn movement. Photo: Ko Lyn CheangThe Church’s first parish, where they spent half a year 2004, was a pub on the fourth floor of an elegant red brick shophoe buildg that was also home to a proment gay bar known as Mox. Worshippers met beneath two silver dis balls hangg om the ceilg where they listened to the pastors preach acceptance of May 2018, while Ong was preparg for a Church event to memorate Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, she received a ll om the Sgaporean police who qutned her about the event.
The FREE (First Realise Everyone’s Equal) COMMUNITY CHURCH affirms that all dividuals, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr persons, are dividuals of sacred worth created God’s image.
IN SGAPORE, A CHRISTIAN GROUP AIMS TO HELP LGBTQ INDIVIDUALS ‘OVERE’ BEG GAY
The documentatn and chroniclg of gay venu Sgapore form an important aspect of the human geography of a signifint segment of the populatn. It was extremely difficult to fd or rerd such rmatn the past as the social activi nducted the areas were sometim at... * gay church singapore *
Ined, we fd discrimatn based on negative judgment of others, fear of difference, and homophobia nsistent wh Christian teachgs.
In the same breath, the anizatn explicly lls beg gay a “stggle”: that the “urg” n be, and should be, himself also nces that sex should be rerved for “monogamo heterosexual marriage. Screenshot om the Redd threadIn May 2019, an anonymo Medium wrer also took to the platform to reunt attendg a Te Love event as a “gay ex-Christian.
’ This seems to be a guidg prciple for the mpaign: straight Christians occupy a higher moral ground and gay people mt up their level of moraly, ” said the wrer admted that Te Love do not seem to be outwardly homophobic, but rather, any sign of homophobia is implic. More than anythg he felt that Te Love don’t “actually want to listen” to gay a send post, outlg further disapproval for the iative, he wrote that the group is “rooted so eply s moral opposn to homosexualy.
SGAPORE GAY VENU: NTEMPORARY
Free Communy Church is Sgapore's only affirmg church. This means that they openly support transgenr, lbian, gay, and bisexual people, and celebrate same-sex relatnships. This extends to the mistry: pastors Miak and Ple are both gay. Last month I went on vatn to Sgapore to see my partner, and joed FCC for their Sunday service… * gay church singapore *
”“[Te Love] choos to ignore the substantial scientific evince that tablish homosexualy as a natural, voluntary, and harmls variatn human psychology, ” wrote the Medium thor. Evangelil Christians me to Sgapore the 1980s, and the movement has been flourishg sce, wh ep-rooted works across the wh Sgaporeans nmng Te Love e exampl of other church Sgapore that have routely attempted to rid Christians of beg gay. Any male found guilty of havg sex wh another male uld be punished wh a prison sentence of up to 2, along wh the church’s attu towards homosexualy mak even more difficult for those who intify as part of the LGBTQ muny , 33, who asked to have her name changed for her protectn, claims she unrwent nversn therapy at the hands of her church when she was 14 years old.
But Ashley and several others believe that the anizatn's passnate rhetoric is jt an unrhand way to nvce people to turn away om beg box adorned wh words such as – “He did not create me a gay.