(RNS) — As whe evangelil nomatns double down on their opposn to equaly, many younger evangelils, gay and straight, are votg wh their feet.
Contents:
- FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
- 3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
- WHO ARE THE GAY EVANGELILS?
- HOW EVANGELILS ARE CHANGG THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
- COMG OUT AS A GAY EVANGELIL CHRISTIAN - LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH REFLECTN BY PAM GOLD
- U.S. HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST WEBSE PROVIS LIST OF 'GAY FRIENDLY' CATHOLIC PARISH
- WHY ARE MORE EVANGELILS SUPPORTG GAY MARRIAGE?
- PRAYG AWAY THE GAY: “THIS IS WHAT LOVE FEELS LIKE?”
- WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
- MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
- 'IT WAS VASTATG': QUEER EVANGELIL SURVIV GAY NVERSN THERAPY AND HELPS OTHERS HEAL
- THIS EVANGELIST ASKED A GAY BAKERY TO MAKE A TRADNAL MARRIAGE KE. NOW HE MAY FACE CHARG.
FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
The Prbyterian Church (USA) officially regnized gay marriage this week. * evangelist mary gay *
Our First Speaker was Elr Leatrice Caldwell, Founr of Christian Women’s Semars, Burlgton, NJ, and also Evangelist Mary Gay, founr of Prayer Vigil of Philalphia, PA and Elr Vernell Ricks of Willgboro, NJ.
3 OTHER CHRISTIAN DENOMATNS THAT ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
* evangelist mary gay *
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.
WHO ARE THE GAY EVANGELILS?
Evangelil Christians are famo for their opposn to gay marriage. Slowly but unniably, however, they are changg urse. * evangelist mary gay *
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.
HOW EVANGELILS ARE CHANGG THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
An outspoken cric of the Relig Right and print of the Sojourners magaze, Jim Wallis reversed his stance on gay marriage an terview wh the Huffgton Post 2013.
COMG OUT AS A GAY EVANGELIL CHRISTIAN - LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH REFLECTN BY PAM GOLD
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. One of the relatively few proment female voic on the evangelil scene, Hatmaker received a fierce backlash when she said she thought God saw monogamo gay relatnships as holy.
U.S. HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST WEBSE PROVIS LIST OF 'GAY FRIENDLY' CATHOLIC PARISH
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. 'And was pecially the ttimony of my gay iends that helped me to see how they have been margalised that my ey beme open to the jtice that the church has wrought.
He fend tradnal marriage a 2008 Christiany Today article, sayg he wasn’t sure he’d perform a same-sex blsg, although he did exprs support for gay and lbian civil rights. After takg a leave of absence om Harvard Universy to study the Bible and homosexualy, Matthew V gave a speech at his church about acceptg gay Christians that has amassed over 1 ln views on YouTube sce 2012.
He also started The Reformatn Project, a nonprof tryg to “reform church teachg on sexual orientatn and genr inty, ” and wrote the book “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships. In a post on his webse tled “My Comg Out Letter, ” Christian rock mician Trey Pearson told fans that he intified as a gay man, spe beg married wh children.
WHY ARE MORE EVANGELILS SUPPORTG GAY MARRIAGE?
In one of her old posts, “An Evangelil’s Rponse to Homosexualy, ” she ref to chose a si of the issue but do adm to wonrg if the evangelil church “has wrong.
While he said recently that his church, Northland, A Church Distributed, will mata that the Bible prohibs gay relatnships, he now believ nservative church should wele and support those of all sexual orientatns. Then there was the time that he said the September 11th attacks happened bee God was angry at Ameri's acceptance of, among others, "the abortnists, and the femists, and the gays and the lbians who are actively tryg to make that an alternative liftyle.
PRAYG AWAY THE GAY: “THIS IS WHAT LOVE FEELS LIKE?”
Angley has prevly been acced of operatg a cult where followers are tght that enough prayer n heal HIV and "childls men are enuraged to have vasectomi and Angley — who preach vehemently agast the 's' of homosexualy — is himself a gay man who personally exam the genals of the male parishners before and after their surgeri. In sayg so, he jos a proment group of Christians whose views on same-sex marriage and LGBT issu have popular Christian wrers, pastors or micians, no particular orr, have publicly broken om the tradnal hard-le posn agast same-sex HatmakerEvangelil lear, thor and HGTV star Jen Hatmaker publicly changed her views on gay marriage 2016. He fend tradnal marriage a 2008 Christiany Today article, sayg he wasn't sure he'd perform a same-sex blsg, although he did exprs support for gay and lbian civil rights.
WHERE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OTHER RELIGNS STAND ON GAY MARRIAGE
Matthew VAfter takg a leave of absence om Harvard Universy to study the Bible and homosexualy, Matthew V gave a speech at his church about acceptg gay Christians that has amassed over 1 ln views on YouTube sce 2012.
MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
He also started The Reformatn Project, a nonprof tryg to "reform church teachg on sexual orientatn and genr inty, " and wrote the book God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex BellThe former pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church publicly stated his views on gay marriage while speakg at San Francis's Grace Cathedral 2013.
'IT WAS VASTATG': QUEER EVANGELIL SURVIV GAY NVERSN THERAPY AND HELPS OTHERS HEAL
He scribed "a very narrow, polilly tertwed, culturally ghettoized, evangelil subculture" that he se dyg PearsonIn a post on his webse tled "My Comg Out Letter, " Christian rock mician Trey Pearson told fans that he intified as a gay man, spe beg married wh children. Sce g out, he has wrten about life as a gay Christian and created a mic vio pictg his RodgersAlthough she has intified as gay sce high school, Julie Rodgers has officially supported gay marriage for only a few years.
THIS EVANGELIST ASKED A GAY BAKERY TO MAKE A TRADNAL MARRIAGE KE. NOW HE MAY FACE CHARG.
In one of her old posts, "An Evangelil's Rponse to Homosexualy, " she ref to choose a si of the issue but do adm to wonrg if the evangelil church "has wrong.