Evangelils and the Gay Closet: Is Ray Boltz Still a Christian? — The Life and Tim of Bce Gerencser

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• CHRISTIAN SGER RAY BOLTZ COM OUT, LIV A NORMAL GAY LIFE
• EVANGELILS AND THE GAY CLOSET: IS RAY BOLTZ STILL A CHRISTIAN?
• USA BOLT ON LGBT RIGHTS JAMAI AND HANGG UP HIS SPIK I AM LEGENDTHE SUBJECT OF THE THRILLG DOCUMENTARY ‘I AM BOLT’ OPENS UP ABOUT HIS JOURNEY TO GREATNS, HIS NATIVE UNTRY, AND HOW HE PLANS TO TRY HIS HAND AT PROFSNAL SOCCER. MARLOW STERNUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 8:35PM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 29, 2016 6:36AM EST CAMERON SPENCER/GETTYTHERE’S A STORY TOLD EARLY ON I AM BOLT, A NEW DOCUMENTARY CELEBRATG THE ATHLETIC PROWS OF USA BOLT, THAT HELPS ILLUMATE HOW HE BEME THE GREATT SPRTER TO EVER SET FOOT ON THE TRACK.THE YARN BEGAN AT THE 2002 WORLD JUNR CHAMPNSHIPS WHERE, BEFORE A HOMETOWN CROWD KGSTON, JAMAI, A THEN 15-YEAR-OLD BOLT WAS SO OVERE BY PRE-RACE NERV HE PUT HIS CLEATS ON THE WRONG FEET. IT DIDN’T MATTER. BOLT EMERGED VICTOR THE 200 METERS, EARNG THE DISTCTN AS THE YOUNGT WORLD JUNR GOLD MEDALIST EVER. UPON CROSSG THE FISH LE, HE TURNED AND SALUTED HIS ECSTATIC UNTRYMEN. IT IS STILL, HE SAYS, THE GREATT MOMENT OF HIS LIFE. DAYS LATER, BOLT’S PAL RAN AFOUL OF SCHOOL ADMISTRATORS FOR TOSSG HIS SHOE AT A FEMALE CLASSMATE, AND BOLT, EVER THE LOYAL IEND, REFED TO GIVE HIM UP. BOLT’S FATHER, WELLLEY, WASN’T HAVG . HE MARCHED DOWN THERE, YANKED HIS SON OF OUT CLASS, AND WHOOPED HIM ONT OF THE ENTIRE SCHOOL. “MY DAD WAS JT A REALLY SER PERSON,” BOLT TELLS THE DAILY BEAST. “HE WAS A DISCIPLARIAN, AND THAT REALLY HELPED ME BEE HE KEPT ME HONT AND TGHT ME TO ALWAYS RPECT PEOPLE. I LEARNED A LOT OF GREAT LSONS BY THE FACT THAT HE WAS A DISCIPLARIAN, BUT”—HE LGHS—“THAT SPECIFIC CINT DIDN’T REALLY HELP!”BOLT’S FATHER WOULD BEG TO DIFFER. HE’S JT ONE OF SEVERAL TALKG HEADS WHO SHARE TAL OF THE LIVG LEGEND I AM BOLT, WHICH TRAC BOLT’S JOURNEY OM A TY, STUTE TOWN THE PARISH OF TRELAWNY TO WORLD’S FASTT MAN WH A RERD NE OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS SPRTG. “WHEN YOU THK OF USA BOLT, YOU’RE FELY GOG TO HAVE TO THK OF THE MUHAMMAD ALIS, THE PEL, THE MICHAEL JORDANS—AMAZG ATHLET THAT HAVE REACHED BEYOND WHAT ANY OTHER ATHLETE HAS REACHED. SERENA WILLIAMS. USA BOLT’S NAME GO RIGHT THERE,” SAYS SERENA WILLIAMS THE FILM. MUCH OF THE FILM IS DITED TO THE BUILD-UP TO THIS PAST SUMMER’S R OLYMPIC GAM, WHERE BOLT WAS VYG FOR HIS THIRD STRAIGHT THREE-GOLD OLYMPICS: THE 100M, 200M, AND 4 X 100M RELAY. THE MAN THEY LL LIGHTNG BOLT WASN’T FEELG PARTICULARLY MOTIVATED LEADG UP TO R—THAT IS, UNTIL JT GATL AND THE OTHER AMERIN SPRTERS BEGAN RIPPG TO BOLT FOR RECEIVG A MEDIL EXEMPTN AFTER JURG HIS ANKLE.“AT THE TRIALS, WHEN I HAD TO PULL OUT BEE I HAD A SMALL JURY LEADG UP THE CHAMPNSHIPS, THE MENTS THAT THE U.S. GUYS MA REALLY GOT UNR MY SK. I’VE NEVER BEEN SO UPSET ABOUT SOMETHG MY ENTIRE LIFE UNTIL THAT VERY MOMENT,” HE TELLS ME. THE IRONY, OF URSE, IS THAT GATL AND MANY OF THE AMERIN SPRTERS HAD BEEN BTED FOR DOPG VLATNS, YET SOMEHOW HAD THE NERVE TO CRICIZE THE GREAT ONE. “FOR ME, I DON’T MAKE THE L OF TRACK AND FIELD, BUT I’VE ALWAYS BEEN RPECTFUL OF THEM AND NEVER BASHED THEM ANY WAY. I’VE ALWAYS SHOWN RPECT, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? SO THE WAY THAT THEY ME AT ME I FELT WAS REALLY DISRPECTFUL,” HE SAYS. “IT REALLY ANNOYED ME AND GOT ME ANGRY FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER.”BOLT PROMISED GATL THAT HE “WILL FEEL MY FULL WRATH” R—AND HE DID. BOLT TOOK HOME GOLDS THE 100M, 200M, AND 4 X 100M RELAY, ACHIEVG IMMORTALY.THE SPORTS IN PARTI JT AS HARD AS HE TRAS, TOO (HE’S OM JAMAI, AFTER ALL). FOLLOWG THAT R W, BOLT WAS PHOTOGRAPHED GETTG DOWN VAR LONDON NIGHTCLUBS—AND BRGG A GROUP OF 10 WOMEN BACK TO HIS HOTEL. WHEN ASKED HOW HE BALANC HIS PROLIFIC PARTYG AND GELG TRAG, HE LGHS. “OVER THE YEARS I’VE LEARNED TO KNOW WHEN TO DO . EARLY THE SEASON, SAY THE WTERTIME, I ALWAYS MAKE SURE I TRA VERY HARD BEE, AS MY ACH ALWAYS EXPLAS, THE BACKGROUND TRAG IS VERY IMPORTANT SCE THEN IF YOU GET JURED DURG THE SEASON WON’T BE A PLETE LOSS,” HE OFFERS. “I’VE REALLY FIGURED OUT OVER THE YEARS HOW TO TRA AND WHEN I N SLACK OFF A LTLE B. AND I NEED TO LET LOOSE SOMETIM! IT KEEPS ME SANE, AND KEEPS ME RELAXED.”LAST YEAR, BOLT ATTEND A TOWN HALL KGSTON, THE UNTRY’S PAL, HOSTED BY PRINT OBAMA. DURG THE TALK, THE PRINT ADDRSED THE ISSUE OF LGBT RIGHTS JAMAI—A UNTRY WILY NSIRED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST HOMOPHOBIC THE WORLD DUE TO S HIGH RAT OF VLENT CRIME AGAST THE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR MUNY. IN JAMAI, SODOMY IS PUNISHABLE BY AS MUCH AS 10 YEARS PRISON, AND “GULLY QUEENS,” A MUNY OF LGBT YOUTHS WHO’VE BEEN KICKED OUT OF THEIR HOM FOR THEIR SEXUALY, ARE FORCED TO LIVE STORM DRAS.ON THE SUBJECT OF LGBT RIGHTS—OR THE LACK THEREOF— HIS NATIVE UNTRY, BOLT SAYS THAT HE PERSONALLY HAS NO PROBLEM WH THE LGBT MUNY. “FOR ME, I HAVE NO ISSUE, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? OVER THE YEARS I’VE WORKED WH A LOT OF THE [GAY] PEOPLE, BUT JAMAI, ’S THE LE AND THE LAW,” HE SAYS. “I DON’T AL WH POLICS, BUT I WORK WH A LOT OF PEOPLE, AND I HAVE A FEW IENDS [THAT ARE GAY] AND STUFF LIKE THAT, SO ’S NOT A BIG ISSUE FOR ME, AND I TRY NOT TO GET VOLVED . I LET THE POLICIANS AL WH THAT.”BOLT’S SIRE TO REMA APOLIL ALSO EXTEND TO THE RECENT ELECTN OF DONALD TMP. “FOR ME, I’M NOT A POLICS PERSON—AT ALL. I DIDN’T REALLY FOLLOW THE ELECTN. YOU ALWAYS HEAR THE MENTS OR WHATEVER, BUT I JT FOUND TERTG, THAT’S ALL,” HE SHAR. ONE THG BOLT IS CERTA ABOUT IS RETIREMENT. HE’S PLANNG TO HANG UP HIS SPIK FOLLOWG THE 2017 WORLD CHAMPNSHIPS LONDON, NNG OM AUG. 8 TO 13. “DEFELY, Y. THAT WILL BE . FOR SURE. THIS IS THE LAST CHAMPNSHIP,” HE SAYS, MATTER-OF-FACTLY. “THIS ONE IS JT FOR THE FANS, TO E OUT AND ENJOY SEEG ME ONE LAST TIME.”IN ADDN TO HIS UAL HOBBI OF DOMO, ATVS, MOVIE-WATCHG, AND PLAYG CALL OF DUTY, THE TRACK SUPERSTAR PLANS ON SPENDG HIS RETIREMENT TRYG HIS HAND AT A NEW SPORT: SOCCER. BOLT IS A LONGTIME FAN OF THE CLUB MANCHTER UNED, AND HAS JOKED THAT HE’S AWAG TEAM MANAGER JOSE MOURHO’S LL.“IT’S SOMETHG THAT I WANT TO TRY—TO DO A LTLE TRYOUT OR A LTLE TRAG AND SEE IF ’S SOMETHG THAT I WANT TO DO, AND THEN I’LL CI. IT’S NOT A PLETE ‘Y’ OR A ‘NO’ AT THIS POT,” HE SAYS. “THE CEO OF PUMA, HE’S GOOD IENDS WH [GERMAN CLUB] BOSSIA DORTMUND, SO HE’S TALKED TO THEM AND THEY’VE SAID THAT THEY’LL LET ME E TRA WH THEM FOR A WEEK AFTER MY SEASON, NEXT SEASON. IT’S SOMETHG THAT I’M REALLY LOOKG FORWARD TO.” MARLOW STERN
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CHRISTIAN SGER RAY BOLTZ COM OUT, LIV A NORMAL GAY LIFE

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EVANGELILS AND THE GAY CLOSET: IS RAY BOLTZ STILL A CHRISTIAN?

“I don't want to be a spokperson, I don't want to be a poster boy for gay Christians, I don't want to be a ltle box on TV wh three other people ltle box screamg about what the Bible says, I don't want to be some kd of teacher or theologian — I’m jt an artist and I’m jt gog to sg about what I feel and wre about what I feel and see where go. The majory of Christian publitns, while not openly attackg him, ma clear that they do not support his cisn to live his life as a homosexual man.

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USA BOLT ON LGBT RIGHTS JAMAI AND HANGG UP HIS SPIK I AM LEGENDTHE SUBJECT OF THE THRILLG DOCUMENTARY ‘I AM BOLT’ OPENS UP ABOUT HIS JOURNEY TO GREATNS, HIS NATIVE UNTRY, AND HOW HE PLANS TO TRY HIS HAND AT PROFSNAL SOCCER. MARLOW STERNUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 8:35PM EDT / PUBLISHED NOV. 29, 2016 6:36AM EST CAMERON SPENCER/GETTYTHERE’S A STORY TOLD EARLY ON I AM BOLT, A NEW DOCUMENTARY CELEBRATG THE ATHLETIC PROWS OF USA BOLT, THAT HELPS ILLUMATE HOW HE BEME THE GREATT SPRTER TO EVER SET FOOT ON THE TRACK.THE YARN BEGAN AT THE 2002 WORLD JUNR CHAMPNSHIPS WHERE, BEFORE A HOMETOWN CROWD KGSTON, JAMAI, A THEN 15-YEAR-OLD BOLT WAS SO OVERE BY PRE-RACE NERV HE PUT HIS CLEATS ON THE WRONG FEET. IT DIDN’T MATTER. BOLT EMERGED VICTOR THE 200 METERS, EARNG THE DISTCTN AS THE YOUNGT WORLD JUNR GOLD MEDALIST EVER. UPON CROSSG THE FISH LE, HE TURNED AND SALUTED HIS ECSTATIC UNTRYMEN. IT IS STILL, HE SAYS, THE GREATT MOMENT OF HIS LIFE. DAYS LATER, BOLT’S PAL RAN AFOUL OF SCHOOL ADMISTRATORS FOR TOSSG HIS SHOE AT A FEMALE CLASSMATE, AND BOLT, EVER THE LOYAL IEND, REFED TO GIVE HIM UP. BOLT’S FATHER, WELLLEY, WASN’T HAVG . HE MARCHED DOWN THERE, YANKED HIS SON OF OUT CLASS, AND WHOOPED HIM ONT OF THE ENTIRE SCHOOL. “MY DAD WAS JT A REALLY SER PERSON,” BOLT TELLS THE DAILY BEAST. “HE WAS A DISCIPLARIAN, AND THAT REALLY HELPED ME BEE HE KEPT ME HONT AND TGHT ME TO ALWAYS RPECT PEOPLE. I LEARNED A LOT OF GREAT LSONS BY THE FACT THAT HE WAS A DISCIPLARIAN, BUT”—HE LGHS—“THAT SPECIFIC CINT DIDN’T REALLY HELP!”BOLT’S FATHER WOULD BEG TO DIFFER. HE’S JT ONE OF SEVERAL TALKG HEADS WHO SHARE TAL OF THE LIVG LEGEND I AM BOLT, WHICH TRAC BOLT’S JOURNEY OM A TY, STUTE TOWN THE PARISH OF TRELAWNY TO WORLD’S FASTT MAN WH A RERD NE OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALS SPRTG. “WHEN YOU THK OF USA BOLT, YOU’RE FELY GOG TO HAVE TO THK OF THE MUHAMMAD ALIS, THE PEL, THE MICHAEL JORDANS—AMAZG ATHLET THAT HAVE REACHED BEYOND WHAT ANY OTHER ATHLETE HAS REACHED. SERENA WILLIAMS. USA BOLT’S NAME GO RIGHT THERE,” SAYS SERENA WILLIAMS THE FILM. MUCH OF THE FILM IS DITED TO THE BUILD-UP TO THIS PAST SUMMER’S R OLYMPIC GAM, WHERE BOLT WAS VYG FOR HIS THIRD STRAIGHT THREE-GOLD OLYMPICS: THE 100M, 200M, AND 4 X 100M RELAY. THE MAN THEY LL LIGHTNG BOLT WASN’T FEELG PARTICULARLY MOTIVATED LEADG UP TO R—THAT IS, UNTIL JT GATL AND THE OTHER AMERIN SPRTERS BEGAN RIPPG TO BOLT FOR RECEIVG A MEDIL EXEMPTN AFTER JURG HIS ANKLE.“AT THE TRIALS, WHEN I HAD TO PULL OUT BEE I HAD A SMALL JURY LEADG UP THE CHAMPNSHIPS, THE MENTS THAT THE U.S. GUYS MA REALLY GOT UNR MY SK. I’VE NEVER BEEN SO UPSET ABOUT SOMETHG MY ENTIRE LIFE UNTIL THAT VERY MOMENT,” HE TELLS ME. THE IRONY, OF URSE, IS THAT GATL AND MANY OF THE AMERIN SPRTERS HAD BEEN BTED FOR DOPG VLATNS, YET SOMEHOW HAD THE NERVE TO CRICIZE THE GREAT ONE. “FOR ME, I DON’T MAKE THE L OF TRACK AND FIELD, BUT I’VE ALWAYS BEEN RPECTFUL OF THEM AND NEVER BASHED THEM ANY WAY. I’VE ALWAYS SHOWN RPECT, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? SO THE WAY THAT THEY ME AT ME I FELT WAS REALLY DISRPECTFUL,” HE SAYS. “IT REALLY ANNOYED ME AND GOT ME ANGRY FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER.”BOLT PROMISED GATL THAT HE “WILL FEEL MY FULL WRATH” R—AND HE DID. BOLT TOOK HOME GOLDS THE 100M, 200M, AND 4 X 100M RELAY, ACHIEVG IMMORTALY.THE SPORTS IN PARTI JT AS HARD AS HE TRAS, TOO (HE’S OM JAMAI, AFTER ALL). FOLLOWG THAT R W, BOLT WAS PHOTOGRAPHED GETTG DOWN VAR LONDON NIGHTCLUBS—AND BRGG A GROUP OF 10 WOMEN BACK TO HIS HOTEL. WHEN ASKED HOW HE BALANC HIS PROLIFIC PARTYG AND GELG TRAG, HE LGHS. “OVER THE YEARS I’VE LEARNED TO KNOW WHEN TO DO . EARLY THE SEASON, SAY THE WTERTIME, I ALWAYS MAKE SURE I TRA VERY HARD BEE, AS MY ACH ALWAYS EXPLAS, THE BACKGROUND TRAG IS VERY IMPORTANT SCE THEN IF YOU GET JURED DURG THE SEASON WON’T BE A PLETE LOSS,” HE OFFERS. “I’VE REALLY FIGURED OUT OVER THE YEARS HOW TO TRA AND WHEN I N SLACK OFF A LTLE B. AND I NEED TO LET LOOSE SOMETIM! IT KEEPS ME SANE, AND KEEPS ME RELAXED.”LAST YEAR, BOLT ATTEND A TOWN HALL KGSTON, THE UNTRY’S PAL, HOSTED BY PRINT OBAMA. DURG THE TALK, THE PRINT ADDRSED THE ISSUE OF LGBT RIGHTS JAMAI—A UNTRY WILY NSIRED TO BE ONE OF THE MOST HOMOPHOBIC THE WORLD DUE TO S HIGH RAT OF VLENT CRIME AGAST THE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR MUNY. IN JAMAI, SODOMY IS PUNISHABLE BY AS MUCH AS 10 YEARS PRISON, AND “GULLY QUEENS,” A MUNY OF LGBT YOUTHS WHO’VE BEEN KICKED OUT OF THEIR HOM FOR THEIR SEXUALY, ARE FORCED TO LIVE STORM DRAS.ON THE SUBJECT OF LGBT RIGHTS—OR THE LACK THEREOF— HIS NATIVE UNTRY, BOLT SAYS THAT HE PERSONALLY HAS NO PROBLEM WH THE LGBT MUNY. “FOR ME, I HAVE NO ISSUE, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? OVER THE YEARS I’VE WORKED WH A LOT OF THE [GAY] PEOPLE, BUT JAMAI, ’S THE LE AND THE LAW,” HE SAYS. “I DON’T AL WH POLICS, BUT I WORK WH A LOT OF PEOPLE, AND I HAVE A FEW IENDS [THAT ARE GAY] AND STUFF LIKE THAT, SO ’S NOT A BIG ISSUE FOR ME, AND I TRY NOT TO GET VOLVED . I LET THE POLICIANS AL WH THAT.”BOLT’S SIRE TO REMA APOLIL ALSO EXTEND TO THE RECENT ELECTN OF DONALD TMP. “FOR ME, I’M NOT A POLICS PERSON—AT ALL. I DIDN’T REALLY FOLLOW THE ELECTN. YOU ALWAYS HEAR THE MENTS OR WHATEVER, BUT I JT FOUND TERTG, THAT’S ALL,” HE SHAR. ONE THG BOLT IS CERTA ABOUT IS RETIREMENT. HE’S PLANNG TO HANG UP HIS SPIK FOLLOWG THE 2017 WORLD CHAMPNSHIPS LONDON, NNG OM AUG. 8 TO 13. “DEFELY, Y. THAT WILL BE . FOR SURE. THIS IS THE LAST CHAMPNSHIP,” HE SAYS, MATTER-OF-FACTLY. “THIS ONE IS JT FOR THE FANS, TO E OUT AND ENJOY SEEG ME ONE LAST TIME.”IN ADDN TO HIS UAL HOBBI OF DOMO, ATVS, MOVIE-WATCHG, AND PLAYG CALL OF DUTY, THE TRACK SUPERSTAR PLANS ON SPENDG HIS RETIREMENT TRYG HIS HAND AT A NEW SPORT: SOCCER. BOLT IS A LONGTIME FAN OF THE CLUB MANCHTER UNED, AND HAS JOKED THAT HE’S AWAG TEAM MANAGER JOSE MOURHO’S LL.“IT’S SOMETHG THAT I WANT TO TRY—TO DO A LTLE TRYOUT OR A LTLE TRAG AND SEE IF ’S SOMETHG THAT I WANT TO DO, AND THEN I’LL CI. IT’S NOT A PLETE ‘Y’ OR A ‘NO’ AT THIS POT,” HE SAYS. “THE CEO OF PUMA, HE’S GOOD IENDS WH [GERMAN CLUB] BOSSIA DORTMUND, SO HE’S TALKED TO THEM AND THEY’VE SAID THAT THEY’LL LET ME E TRA WH THEM FOR A WEEK AFTER MY SEASON, NEXT SEASON. IT’S SOMETHG THAT I’M REALLY LOOKG FORWARD TO.” MARLOW STERN

“I basilly lived an ‘ex-gay’ life — I read every book, I read all the scriptur they e, I did everythg to try and change. Some fans look up to his cisn to go public so that people n see that gay people n love and serve the Lord.

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There are some that feel that his "givg to the temptatn of s" and "succumbg to the homosexual lie" wip out every shred of value that his mic ever had the world and that he should be "shunned om the body of Christ until he repents and chang his ways bee he n not receive fivens until he actually repents om the s. Livg a gay liftyle is equated by some Christians to havg an open marriage or cheatg on a spoe. Whether someone was born gay bee God ma him that way so he has no choice is pared by some Christians to beg born a fay of alholics wh a predisposn to the ndn.

They see the rejectn of homosexual persons as gog agast the very gra of J' preachg to love your neighbors as yourself. "Did God create Ray Boltz gay? In 2008, Boltz me out of the closet and admted he was gay.

What follows is an terview Boltz gave about beg gay and still beg a Christian. Boltz is hont and open about his life, and is actually que passnate towards people who attack him for beg gay. Here’s a man who was loved, rpected, and revered by Evangelils, yet now he says he is gay.

NO STOPPG BOLT – GAY

“All those wonrful songs he wrote, yet he had “gay lt” his heart the whole time!

Remember, most Evangelils believe homosexualy to be a sign of a reprobate heart; that there is no such thg as a “gay” Christian; that there will be NO LGBTQ people Heaven. A 2018 Thought Co article tled, Christian Sger Ray Boltz Com Out, Says He Liv a Normal Gay Life, tails how many (most) Evangelils view Boltz’s g out:. “I basilly lived an ‘ex-gay’ life—I read every book, I read all the scriptur they e, I did everythg to try and change.

There are some that feel that his “givg to the temptatn of s” and “succumbg to the homosexual lie” wip out every shred of value that his mic ever had the world and that he should be “shunned om the body of Christ until he repents and chang his ways bee he n not receive fivens until he actually repents om the s. He currently liv wh his partner and attends a gay-affirmg church Florida.