Michael Passons recently revealed that he had to leave the band Avalon bee he was gay. And not bee he wanted to go solo.
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- FORMER AVALON SGER MICHAEL PASSONS SAYS HE WAS KICKED OUT OF CHRISTIAN BAND FOR BEG GAY
- FORMER AVALON SGER MICHAEL PASSONS CLAIMS HE HAD TO LEAVE BAND FOR BEG GAY AFTER REJECTG ONGOG NVERSN THERAPY
- MICHAEL PASSONS SAYS HE WAS FIRED FROM AVALON FOR BEG GAY
- MICHAEL PASSONS TELLS THE WORLD WHY HE WAS FORCED TO LEAVE AVALON 2003. BEE HE WAS GAY!
- MICHAEL PASSONS: I WAS KICKED OUT OF THE CHRISTIAN BAND I FOUND FOR BEG GAY
- SGER MICHAEL PASSONS REVEALS HE WAS KICKED OUT OF CHRISTIAN GROUP AVALON BEE HE WAS GAY
FORMER AVALON SGER MICHAEL PASSONS SAYS HE WAS KICKED OUT OF CHRISTIAN BAND FOR BEG GAY
The sger-songwrer, 54, revealed durg Wednday's episo of Jonah and the Whale podst that he was actually kicked out of the Grammy-wng mil act bee he is gay.
FORMER AVALON SGER MICHAEL PASSONS CLAIMS HE HAD TO LEAVE BAND FOR BEG GAY AFTER REJECTG ONGOG NVERSN THERAPY
"I'm a gay man and I'm glad to be, " he told Skner. "Back then, gay people uld be discrimated agast the workplace.
The worship sger, who me out as gay on The Voice 2019, told Baldridge he was let go om his job as a worship lear at his church after revealg his sexualy.
MICHAEL PASSONS SAYS HE WAS FIRED FROM AVALON FOR BEG GAY
's high time christian mic got a shake up wh a msage of realy & hope beyond the homogenized CCM...
The reactn mirrors the way many morn megachurch eher offer vague statements about acceptance while tryg to shift the foc away om their anti-gay polici or stay quiet on the issue. Sger-songwrer Julien Baker me out as queer 2016 alongsi Trey Pearson om Everyday Sunday, who me out as gay an emotnal letter to fans. “I’m a gay man and I’m glad to be.
MICHAEL PASSONS TELLS THE WORLD WHY HE WAS FORCED TO LEAVE AVALON 2003. BEE HE WAS GAY!
Back then, gay people uld be discrimated agast the workplace. As for why a gay man moved to Nashville to make Christian mic the first place, Passons adms he knew was “a b of a mefield” but as was his “passn” at the time, he “wasn’t gog to let that ter” him om his dreams.
Michael Passons left the band Avalon 17 years ago (Picture: Michael Passons/Instagram)Michael Passons has claimed he had to leave Christian sgg group Avalon for beg gay and for refg ongog gay nversn therapy. Michael, who was a foundg member of Avalon, add: ‘I am out now, I’m a gay man, and I’m glad to be.
On that day, although I had no power the cisn, I was unr the same nservative Christian fluence that told me that beg gay was a s. So at that moment, although I loved Michael, I thought that beg gay uld not be renciled wh beg a Christian artist, for was nsired a s.
MICHAEL PASSONS: I WAS KICKED OUT OF THE CHRISTIAN BAND I FOUND FOR BEG GAY
In July, public figur cludg Sir Elton John, Dua Lipa and Stephen Fry backed a letter by the Ban Conversn Therapy mpaign group llg for an end to the treatments ‘for all lbian gay bi, trans and genr diverse people the UK. Whether a subtle jab, as Stt Wley Brown sgg about “fools who march for the right to jtify their s, ” or more overtly the se of whe rapper Carman warng of “the homosexual San Francis trapped vile bondage, ” proment artists wh the genre have often peppered their lyrics wh reactnary homophobia. CCM lumary Ray Botlz, whose “Thank You” sred untls evangelil funerals, announced 2008 that his 30 years of attemptg to “pray the gay away” hadn’t worked and that he would be livg his remag years wh a man.
Brish worship volist Vicky Beechg, who The Guardian lled “the most fluential Christian of her generatn, ” announced she was gay 2014, followed by Trey Pearson, ontman of the 90s Christian pop punk band Everyday Sunday, 2016. In a 2015 blog post entled “Do I Love Gay People? ” Hillsong founr Brian Hoton said the church’s nvictns mean do “not affirm a gay liftyle” or “knowgly have actively gay people posns of learship, eher paid or unpaid.
CCM is gog through a transformatn and search for inty, ” Semler rhetoric is a watered-down versn of the homophobia peddled for s by the Christian right, as well as s most proment mouthpiec.
SGER MICHAEL PASSONS REVEALS HE WAS KICKED OUT OF CHRISTIAN GROUP AVALON BEE HE WAS GAY
In the 1980s, CCM often functned as an unofficial marketg mpaign for the Moral Majory, a Christian polil movement whose lear, Jerry Falwell, once referred to AIDS as “a lethal judgment of God on the s of homosexualy. ” While he wouldn’t e out for nearly 20 years, Passons was kicked out of Avalon for beg gay 2003.
But ’s important to Knapp to note that she wasn’t closeted durg her years at the foreont of CCM and that she didn’t leave bee she was gay. She got her masters theologil studi, married a woman, and returned to mic 2010 wh a new album and a publicly gay inty. Passons sang backup vols on a 2020 ver of Avalon’s “Orphans of God” released by gay untry sger Ty Herndon and Broadway staple Krist Chenoweth.
”“The first Sunday of every month is gospel mic night at the gay bars Nashville, and I see multi–Dove Award wners there every time, ” she said, referrg to the evangelil equivalent of the Grammys. “The night before the Dove Awards there’s somethg lled a Pk Party for all the gay nome, and s a super gay, drag queens–and-fountas-of-champagne-type party. "I'm a gay man and I'm glad to be.