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testimonies of gay christians

How a gay atheist teenager disvered J and stopped livg unrver.

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'I GAVE MY HOMOSEXUALY TO GOD': FORMER GAY ACTIVIST MET J AND HIS LIFE WAS COMPLETELY CHANGED

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David Bent, a former gay activist, is now a mted Christian and member of 'Livg Out' Baker Photography. A former anti-Christian gay rights activist has scribed how he met J a pub – and turned over his homosexualy to God.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

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Until he met J a pub Atralia, David Bent was an active mpaigner for gay rights. He took part Sydney's annual gay rights para, Mardi Gras.

"I really unrstand how gay experience is so important, and how the Church has not taken that to acunt. He is still gay and is not lked to the ex-gay movement.

CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FIR GAY SOCCER COACH OVER INSTAGRAM STORI

He "me out" as gay when he was 14.

He experienced homophobia. "I said, 'I'm homosexual, I don't thk God is terted me. At first he remaed nvced that gay marriage uld be sanctified by God.

BEG A GAY CHRISTIAN N BE HURTFUL AND GELLG. BUT I REFE TO LOSE FAH

"It me down to a moment where God said to me, 'You need to give me your homosexualy pletely. ' So I gave him my homosexualy, and felt that ll to celibacy.

GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS

By studyg scripture, he then reached a pot where he no longer saw marriage as simply a life-long mment between two dividuals like a secular or gay marriage. Bill, I’m gay.

I was the gay one. 1984 was a terrible time to realize you’re gay. As the year progrsed, around 100 gay men the US were dyg of AIDS every week.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

I had no ia Madonna would bee a gay in. A gay atheist teenager tryg to ver over my shame.

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I'M GAY, BUT I'M NOT SWCHG TO A CHURCH THAT SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE

No one had ever talked to me about J except a grandmother years earlier, and I uldn’t remember what she had said or whether was even applible to gay people who had never gone to church.

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