The Prbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has bee the fourth Prottant nomatn the U.S. to allow the ordatn of gay and lbian clergy. It follows a majory vote by the 173 prbyteri (district erng bodi) on Tuday to change the body’s nstutn
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- FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
- 500 CLERGY SUPPORT GAY UNED METHODIST CLERGY WHO ME OUT
- THE UNED METHODIST QUEER CLERGY CC (UMQCC) IS MA UP OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND TERSEX PEOPLE WHO ARE LLED, MISSNED, AND ORDAED CLERGY THE UNED METHODIST CHURCH.
- 10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI
- IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
- NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE ORDAS OPENLY GAY PASTOR
- BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
- TOP 5 ANTI-GAY MISTERS ACCED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL
- PCUSA VOT TO ALLOW OPENLY GAY CLERGY
- SR OF NGREGATNS QU UNED METHODIST CHURCH OVER GAY CLERGY, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
Answer to a qutn about a preacher who says he ed to be gay. * list of gay preachers *
This victory reflects recent pollg that shows that majori of all relig groups are favor of “broad nondiscrimatn protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people.
500 CLERGY SUPPORT GAY UNED METHODIST CLERGY WHO ME OUT
Is biblilly allowable for a pastor to be gay? Do beg gay disqualify a man om servg as a pastor? * list of gay preachers *
Grav-Fzsimmons told the thors that, “Intifyg as both a Christian and a gay man mak me eply mted to the work of llective liberatn. As a gay Black man, he is particularly terted reformg the relatnship between the New York Cy Police Department and New York Cy’s LGBTQ muny and muni of lor. His current scholarship teas out the terplay of relign, sexualy, and palism artifacts of popular and queer culture, and his earlier scholarly work examed the activist histori of gay and lbian Catholics durg the early years of the AIDS epimic.
THE UNED METHODIST QUEER CLERGY CC (UMQCC) IS MA UP OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, AND TERSEX PEOPLE WHO ARE LLED, MISSNED, AND ORDAED CLERGY THE UNED METHODIST CHURCH.
Wh an timated 3.1 ln members, the Prbyterian Church (USA) is very supportive of gay, lbian and bisexual people. * list of gay preachers *
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.
'Through [my wife] Peggy, I have e to know so many gay Christian upl whose relatnships work much the same way as our own. 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.
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.
10 MOST WILDLY ANTI-GAY PREACHERS AMERI
While many black pastors nmn homosexualy om the pulp, the choir lofts behd them are often filled wh gay sgers and micians. The fact that gays and lbians often hold learship posn the church is the worst kept secret black Ameri. * list of gay preachers *
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.
IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
Bishop Eddie Long is not the first preacher who ranted agast homosexualy, who turn was acced of beg gay. There have been several others, all who have been acced of rryg out homosexual affairs the bedroom, while ragg agast gays the pulp. Here are 5 misters who preached agast homosexualy public yet were acced of dulgg homosexualy private. * list of gay preachers *
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.
Asked if she would attend a gay iend's weddg she said was an easy answer: 'I would attend that weddg wh gladns, and I would drk champagne. The Southern Baptist church pastor om Los Angel, California, announced 2014 he is 'gay affirmg' and had accepted his son's homosexualy.
'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.
NORTH TEXAS CONFERENCE ORDAS OPENLY GAY PASTOR
'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.
BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
The former pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church publicly stated his views on gay marriage while speakg at San Francis’s Grace Cathedral 2013. 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.
Although she has intified as gay sce high school, Julie Rodgers has officially supported gay marriage for only a few years. As she has chronicled on her blog and The Washgton Post, she first spent a long time advotg celibacy for Christians who were gay or lbian. ” This label om her posns on LGBT rights and homosexualy, topics she’s grappled wh publicly sce startg her blog 2008.
TOP 5 ANTI-GAY MISTERS ACCED OF BEG HOMOSEXUAL
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. A letter om 500 openly LGBTQ clergy, future pastors and fah lear a number of different nomatns offered “much love and light” to the 111 Uned Methodist clergy and ndidat who me out as gay on May 9.
PCUSA VOT TO ALLOW OPENLY GAY CLERGY
“Though we e om different tradns, you are our fay Christ and our siblgs the mon stggle to live fully and thentilly to our God-given inti and llgs, ” stat the letter posted on the webse Believe Out Loud, an onle muny that empowers Christians to work for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer or qutng (LGBTQ) equaly.
The majory of legat at the 2012 General Conference voted agast a proposal to say Uned Methodists disagree whether homosexualy is agast God’s will.
SR OF NGREGATNS QU UNED METHODIST CHURCH OVER GAY CLERGY, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
Gregory Gross, a an and legate om the Northern Illois Conference, said often when Uned Methodists “talk about homosexualy, we talk about as an issue.