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Contents:
- GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
- BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
- FOR SOME BLACK PASTORS, ACCEPTG GAY MEMBERS MEANS LOSG OTHERS
GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
The pastor of an Atlanta megachurch wh thoands of followers, who was twice married and is a father of four, is speakg out about his recent cisn to publicly clare he is gay. * black gay ministers in atlanta *
But those lears, he said, were often surround by LGBTQ members who ma the church’s choirs livelier, helped wh llectns and filled the Oliver Cly Allen Weatherspoon for TODAYThose dynamics, bed wh sermons that cried non-heterosexuali as abomatns, are part of the reason Allen se himself as more than a lear of a Black or gay than a preacher, Allen scrib himself as an abolnist whose job is to spread a msage of eedom and acceptance, two elements that he argu are the fundamentals of Christian belief.
“J Christ didn’t say anythg about gay people and said everythg about liberatg people. I didn’t know a way out, bee I hated myself, bee that’s what I was tght, to hate a person who was gay.
BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
* black gay ministers in atlanta *
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FOR SOME BLACK PASTORS, ACCEPTG GAY MEMBERS MEANS LOSG OTHERS
2, 2010— -- The pastor of a Geia megachurch wh thoands of followers, who was twice married and is a father of four, is speakg out about his recent cisn to publicly clare he is gay.