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Contents:

• HOW TELEVANGELIST TAMMY FAYE MSNER BEME A GAY IN
• U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS CHRISTIAN BAKER WHO REBUFFED GAY UPLE
• IN NARROW LG, SUPREME COURT GIV VICTORY TO BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG
• TTH ABOUT LANDON BARKER’S GAY RUMORS, GIRLIEND, AND DATG
• BAKER’S SUPPORT FOR GAY BROTHER PART OF MPAIGN PORTRA
• IS SIMON BAKER GAY?
• JULIEN BAKER TALKS ABOUT BEG CHRISTIAN, GAY, AND BLSED
• HIGH URT’S ‘GAY WEDDG WEBSE’ CISN BRGS HOPE TO PHOTOGRAPHER, BAKER, OTHER CREATIV
• 'SRY': CHRISTIAN BAKER GAY WEDDG CASE FACED HATE MAIL, DEATH THREATS, CHAOS ON PATH TO LEGAL VICTORY
• MART BAKER GAY, SR.
• GAY DATG MOSW
• IS MATT BAKER GAY?
• CHEF JASON SMH WIKI/B, GAY?, WIFE, KIDS, WORTH, A PERSONAL LIFE HELD CLOSE TO HIS CHT.

HOW TELEVANGELIST TAMMY FAYE MSNER BEME A GAY IN

Though the televangelist is remembered for all of those thgs and more (cludg her first hband, Jim Bakker, gettg nvicted for dg churchgoers out of more than $150 ln), what endur is the seemgly scere love she had for her gay fans. But was groundbreakg 1985, when she terviewed a gay man livg wh AIDS and showed him passn (amid some very personal qutns about her terviewee’s sex life).

It was a parture om the norm to hear a person her posn – half of an evangelil Christian uple – support gay people, pecially as evangelism beme creasgly nservative. “I thk I have a lot mon wh the gay populatn bee they’ve been ma fun of and put down and misunrstood and have really had a rough row to hoe life, ” she told the South Florida Sun-Sentel 2002, ahead of a live show she performed for primarily gay dienc.

In both films, Msner’s support for gay people and people diagnosed wh AIDS is amplified – and by dog so, both films attempt to reem her memory.

U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS CHRISTIAN BAKER WHO REBUFFED GAY UPLE

When speakg to Pieters, who was reverg om chemotherapy, Msner started to tear up over his parents’ reactn when he me out as gay. Pieters told CNN affiliate KABC he thought Msner was “pretty savvy” askg what she did, even though some of those qutns uld be nsired offensive today, sce her dience likely didn’t know many gay men or people wh AIDS. In a 2002 terview wh the LGBTQ outlet Metro Weekly, Msner said she was aware of the impact that episo would have wh gay viewers.

“I was probably one of the first ever to have a gay man on my show, ” she said of the episo wh Pieters. Followg Jim Bakker’s d nvictn and the uple’s divorce, Msner grew more vol about supportg gay people as a Christian, even when the evangelil Christian muny disapproved. She assisted gay advocy groups at chary events and beiend notable gay figur like RuPl and the filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, and the pair eventually directed the 2000 documentary about Msner’s life.

IN NARROW LG, SUPREME COURT GIV VICTORY TO BAKER WHO REFED TO MAKE KE FOR GAY WEDDG

That documentary was largely sympathetic toward Msner and highlighted her populary among gay fans – and helped rhape the image of Msner om a disgraced televangelist to a pillar of acceptg Christiany.

In a scene the new film “The Ey of Tammy Faye, ” Msner (Chasta) stat her support for gay people early on, years before she ved Pieters onto her program. “I don’t thk of them as homosexuals, I jt thk of them as other human begs that I love, ” she tells a stunned Jerry Falwell, played by Vcent D’Ono. Msner fend her support of gay people as a vout Christian later real life, too.

“[Christians] have bee nmng, ” she said after reassertg her love for her gay fans. Her support for gay people stood sharp ntrast om evangelil lears like Falwell, who took over the Bakkers’ Praise the Lord Network. In a 2000 terview, and repeatedly his broadsts, he lled homosexualy “so wrong.

TTH ABOUT LANDON BARKER’S GAY RUMORS, GIRLIEND, AND DATG

Randy Shulman, then a publisher of Metro Weekly, told NPR at the time that Msner’s msage was muddled, and that he spected she didn’t fully approve of her gay fans’ sexualy. “If you read between the l, she’s not sayg to me, ‘It’s OK that you’re gay; she’s sayg, ‘I five you for beg gay and when you go off and die, ’s gog to be between you and your maker. In a 2002 terview that same year wh Metro Weekly, Msner was asked what advice she would give to a young gay person whose parents haven’t accepted them.

“Don’t throw your gayns anyone’s face, jt live your life, ” she told Metro Weekly. It was clear, though, that Msner unrstood her send wd of succs was largely owed to her gay fans. In her last terview, a nversatn wh Larry Kg the day before she died, Msner said that when she and Jim Bakker lost everythg after he mised funds om the PTL Club’s mistry, “ was the gay people that me to [her] rcue.

BAKER’S SUPPORT FOR GAY BROTHER PART OF MPAIGN PORTRA

Supreme Court on Monday hand a victory on narrow grounds to a Colorado baker who refed based on his Christian beliefs to make a weddg ke for a gay uple, stoppg short of settg a major precent allowg people to claim relig exemptns om anti-discrimatn jtic, a 7-2 cisn, said the Colorado Civil Rights Commissn showed an impermissible hostily toward relign when found that baker Jack Phillips vlated the state’s anti-discrimatn law by rebuffg gay uple David Mulls and Charlie Craig 2012. The cisn also did not addrs important claims raised the se cludg whether bakg a ke is a kd of exprsive act protected by the Constutn’s ee speech of the urt’s four liberals, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, joed the five nservative jtic the lg thored by Jtice Anthony Kennedy, who also wrote the landmark 2015 cisn legalizg gay marriage baker se beme a cultural flashpot the Uned Stat, unrsrg the tensns between gay rights proponents and nservative sis claimed a measure of victory. The uple’s supporters noted that the lg embraced the importance of gay rights and ma clear that bs open to the public mt serve everyone.

“Our society has e to the regnn that gay persons and gay upl nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth, ” Kennedy Kennedy said the state missn’s hostily toward relign “was nsistent wh the First Amendment’s guarantee that our laws be applied a manner that is ntral toward relign.

”Kennedy said the missn led the oppose way three s brought agast bakers which the bs owners refed to bake k ntag msag that meaned gay people or same-sex marriage.

IS SIMON BAKER GAY?

“The First Amendment prohibs ernments om discrimatg agast cizens on the basis of relig beliefs, ” Attorney General Jeff Ssns said a cisn ma clear that even if the urt ultimately l a future se that bakers or other bs that sell creative products such as florists and weddg photographers n avoid punishment unr anti-discrimatn laws, most bs open to the public would have no such the 50 stat, 21 cludg Colorado have anti-discrimatn laws protectg gay se marked a tt for Kennedy, who has thored signifint lgs that advanced gay rights but also is a strong advote for ee speech rights and relig eedom.

“The oute of s like this other circumstanc mt awa further elaboratn the urts, all the ntext of regnizg that the disput mt be rolved wh tolerance, whout undue disrpect to scere relig beliefs, and whout subjectg gay persons to digni when they seek goods and servic an open market, ” Kennedy a wrten dissent, Jtice Ruth Bar Gsburg, joed by fellow liberal Sonia Sotomayor, said what mattered was that Phillips would not provi a good or service to a same-sex uple that he would provi to a heterosexual ligatn, along wh siar s around the untry, was part of a nservative Christian backlash to the Supreme Court’s gay marriage lg. Mulls and Craig were planng their weddg Massachetts 2012 and wanted the ke for a receptn Colorado, where gay marriage was not yet legal.

JULIEN BAKER TALKS ABOUT BEG CHRISTIAN, GAY, AND BLSED

Phillips and others like him who believe that gay marriage is nsistent wh their Christian beliefs have said they should not be required to effectively endorse the practice. The jtic on Thursday will nsir whether to hear an appeal by a Washgton state flower shop owner who refed to create a floral arrangement to celebrate a gay weddg, based on her Christian beliefs. It gave no ht as to how the urt might ci future s volvg florists, bakers, photographers and other bs owners who have ced relig and ee-speech objectns when refg to serve gay and lbian ctomers the wake of the Supreme Court's 2015 same-sex marriage the 7-2 cisn, the urt said legal proceedgs Colorado had shown a hostily to the baker's relig views.

"The disput mt be rolved wh tolerance, whout undue disrpect to scere relig beliefs, and whout subjectg gay persons to digni when they seek goods and servic an open market, " Kennedy the lg, which me durg Pri Month, gave ltle guidance to the lower urts about how to balance those petg cisn was a victory for Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakhop Denver, who has said that his k are works of art and that requirg him to bake them for same-sex weddgs would force him to exprs a view that vlated his relig beliefs. Craig and Mulls filed a plat after nservative Christian baker Jack Phillips refed to make them a weddg ke for their same-sex Somovilla / Getty ImagAfter the uple filed a formal plat, Colorado urts led that the state's public acmodatn law, which bans discrimatn by pani offerg their servic to the public, did not allow Phillips to refe the gay uple's requt.

There have been speculatns around Barker’s sexual orientatn and people have been wonrg if he is gay. Is Landon Barker Gay? Currently, there have been no reports of the 18-year-old rapper beg gay.

HIGH URT’S ‘GAY WEDDG WEBSE’ CISN BRGS HOPE TO PHOTOGRAPHER, BAKER, OTHER CREATIV

His Instagram as well as other social media handl also don’t provi any tth of the gossips of him beg gay. And although there might have been some gay mors the past, all of those speculatns n now be buried as Barker is a buddg relatnship wh his new girliend. Three s ago, when Harvard sophomore Alex Baker nfid his mother that he was gay, she nsulted a therapist, who told her that her son faced a miserable future, “whout any meangful relatnships.

“He said, ‘No big al, I have a uple of gay iends, ’ ’’ Alex Baker brothers relled the nversatn Wednday an terview together the livg room of the South Boston home Alex shar wh his hband of 10 years. That nversatn, along wh a vio of the pair that Charlie Baker’s gubernatorial mpaign released Thursday, are key ponents the Baker mpaign’s efforts to relibrate his public image, prentg the GOP ndidate softer — and, his advisers would say, more genue — Breakg News AlertsStay up-to-date wh important news velopments, livered right to your ntrasts wh the harr-edged image Charlie Baker projected his failed 2010 bid for ernor, when he sometim seemed more terted tough fisl polici than nnectg wh release of the vio of the Baker brothers cis wh Saturday’s 10-year anniversary of the first gay weddgs Massachetts and the natn, a landmark date for social liberals.

“If you told me 30 years ago that I’d be talkg to a reporter about beg gay, would have been unfathomable, ” Alex Baker said. Bi him, Charlie Baker leaned back an overstuffed chair, at ease wh the public nversatn between the brothers may break new ground natnal Republin circl, acrdg to one gay marriage advote who monors GOP polics. Angelo, executive director for the Log Cab Republins, which advot for gay issu around the vio is also likely to stir ntroversy among social nservativ wh the state Republin Party who have long risted the state’s first--the-natn move to allow same-sex marriag.

'SRY': CHRISTIAN BAKER GAY WEDDG CASE FACED HATE MAIL, DEATH THREATS, CHAOS ON PATH TO LEGAL VICTORY

In the September primary, Charlie Baker will probably face a Tea Party opponent, Mark Fisher, a Shrewsbury bsman who oppos gay few major GOP ndidat have aired such timate fay tails on a ntroversial subject, there are a growg number of high-profile Republins who have talked openly about gay fay members. Former vice print Dick Cheney has publicly supported his dghter, who is gay, and has e out support of gay marriage.

US Senator Rob Portman of Oh, once a strong opponent of gay marriage, announced his support of the middle of the 2012 printial electn, cg his son, who is Isaacson, chairwoman of the Gay and Lbian Polil Cc, was tepid her rponse to Charlie Baker’s new vio. Isaacson said she giv cred to Baker for “beg a lovg brother, ” but noted he was not willg to step up at a cril time 2004 when she and other gay lears were lookg for proment Massachetts bs lears to publicly e out favor of marriage equaly. “We knew Charlie had a gay brother and a good relatnship wh him, so he was one of our first stops, ’’ Isaacson said.

As much as some voic the field of munitn and ter have speculated if Simon Baker is gay, there is no kd of evince that n rroborate this.

MART BAKER GAY, SR.

Yet, as often happens wh artists of this field, the mors that Simon Baker is gay are persistent, which is surely annoyg. Celebri such as Simon Baker have not admted they are homosexual, this is bee they are certaly not gay or bee they are and don't want to go public. Although Simon Baker hasn't stated beg homosexual, 's easier to e out the world of the celebri, as there have been many to precent this.

This feelg stems om what many might nsir a dichotomy: Baker’s Christian beliefs and knowg she is gay. Update: This article's headle origally read "Julien Baker Rencil Beg Christian and Gay Her Mic.

GAY DATG MOSW

Carpenter is challengg New York’s “public acmodatn” laws that she and her attorneys say threaten f and jail time for Christian photographers who won’t photograph gay weddgs. Charl LiMandri, special unsel at the Thomas More Society, the law firm reprentg Miller, told CBN’s Fahwire his client isn’t biased agast gay dividuals — somethg the urt ultimately nclud.

IS MATT BAKER GAY?

“She’s happy to serve gay ctomers, ” LiMandri said. “She has a lot of happy gay ctomers.

CHEF JASON SMH WIKI/B, GAY?, WIFE, KIDS, WORTH, A PERSONAL LIFE HELD CLOSE TO HIS CHT.

And she’s also had gay employe, so she certaly don’t discrimate agast gay people. He ntued, “The judge basilly found there was no discrimatn that was unlawful unr the Unh Act, bee there was no vid motivatn or anim towards gay people. Historil rerds matchg Mart Baker Gay, Sr.