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Contents:

• GAY MARRIAGE: LUTHERAN PASTOR MARRI ANOTHER MAN, WILL LEAVE THE MISTRY
• GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
• PASTOR WHO MARRIED GAY SON SPEND--WH A TCH
• SOUTH AIN GAY PASTOR MARRI HIS LONG-TIME BOYIEND
• GAY PASTOR GETS MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN
• FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
• A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
• EX-GAY MARRIED, BEME A PASTOR
• IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?
• METHODIST MISTER WHO LOST JOB FOR BEG GAY GETS MARRIED
• LOL GAY PASTOR FORCED TO RIGN MARRI PARTNER ONT OF SUPPORTERS
• CALIFORNIA PASTOR CLAIMS SATAN IS BEHD GAYS GETTG MARRIED
• CHURCH CL TO DISCIPLE GAY PASTOR
• THIS METHODIST CHURCH IS MARRYG TWO GAY MEN IN AN ACT OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

GAY MARRIAGE: LUTHERAN PASTOR MARRI ANOTHER MAN, WILL LEAVE THE MISTRY

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.

I want to tell you that is not, " Jim Swilley said a vio shot the nonnomatnal megachuch Swilley found 25 years Swilley said g out was a cisn he's stggled wh sce childhood, he ma the announcement last month not for personal reasons -- he said he hop to save 52-year-old founr of Church the Now Conyers, Ga., said he's g out to help stem the recent ti of gay suicis Ameri and won't be swayed by some hateful msag that have been wrten about him onle. ""Hearg about the kids who are mtg suici, the reactn as a gay adult is, 'I wish I uld have jt talked to them for 15 mut or five mut and told them gets better, '" Savage said.

"Officials, Celebri Jo 'It Gets Better'Three weeks later, a cy uncil meetg Fort Worth, Texas, gay cy uncilman Joel Burns was moved to share his own emotnal story about how close he me to killg himself at age 13.

GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY

A Uned Methodist pastor found guilty of vlatg church law for marryg his gay son to another man gets to keep his ordatn crentials--for at least the next month. Frank Schaefer of the Zn Uned Methodist church Lebanon, PA., was nvicted a church trial on Monday of officiatg at a gay weddg and showg "disobedience to the orr and disciple of the Uned Methodist Church. The likelihood of Schaefer promisg to never aga officiate a same-sex weddg, however, is slim--three of his four children are gay.

”Schaefer’s trial is the first sce the 1, 000-member General Conference 2012 reaffirmed the Uned Methodist Church’s policy on homosexualy, which accepts gay and lbian members but nsirs the practice “patible wh Christian teachg. ” Soon after stat began legalizg same-sex marriage, the church implemented a le barrg Methodist pastors om officiatg at gay unns. "There were only a handful of church trials between the years 1998 and 2011 for Methodist clergy acced of performg same-sex weddgs, or of g out as gay themselv.

PASTOR WHO MARRIED GAY SON SPEND--WH A TCH

But the last uple years have seen five new potential s emerge, cludg two other pastors who performed their gay children's weddgs, and a retired bishop--the only one to have ever publicly prid over a same-sex ceremony.

SOUTH AIN GAY PASTOR MARRI HIS LONG-TIME BOYIEND

Church members were full of cheers and applse when a gay Anglin prit the Anglin Church South Ai recently “married” another man.

Pastor Pl Mwra is seen makg out wh his homosexual lover, another gay prit om Kenya, John Maierepi as they tie the knot to live wh each other till the end of life. “Sexual orientatn is born, unchosen and unchangeable, don’t judge them please, touch not the anoted on, ” the two pastors are quoted as sayg when asked why they chose to be gays.

GAY PASTOR GETS MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN

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South Ain Anglin gay prit has tied the knot wh his Kenyan longtime gay partner. Peter mazillibed said I do to Jam Kimani a lorful weddg attend by fay, iends and gay muny members.

FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE

In Ai, gay marriage is officially legal South Ai, Botswana and Mozambique. 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.

A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY

'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.

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. 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.

EX-GAY MARRIED, BEME A PASTOR

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. I want the very bt for my gay iends. 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. '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.

IS BIBLILLY ALLOWABLE FOR A PASTOR TO BE GAY?

Unfundamentalist Christians founr John Shore recently shared a letter om a gay Christian who is stgglg wh his sexualy and fah. Among the many enuragg ments on that post was one om a gay pastor who betifully explaed his unrstandg of the Bible, Christiany, and pastor gracly agreed to let me share his ment as blog post here.

Pl was not sayg that idolatry turns people gay; rather, he was sayg that idolatry led to participatn shameful acts of lt.

METHODIST MISTER WHO LOST JOB FOR BEG GAY GETS MARRIED

As I said before, Romans 1 is not about gay Christian boys or girls, but about idolaters wh darkened unrstandg.

LOL GAY PASTOR FORCED TO RIGN MARRI PARTNER ONT OF SUPPORTERS

Another passage often quoted agast is 1 Corthians 6:9, wrongly translated as “homosexuals. But Genis 19 no more nmns all homosexualy than Judg 19 nmns all heterosexualy. If I ever meet a fe gay man who is Spirual and lovg and mutually attractive, and if I felt the Lord leadg me to him and him to me, I would feel ee to be his mate.

He fought same-sex attractn as a young person and plunged to the homosexual liftyle after a false accatn unmasked his. By his sophomore year high school, the feelgs were tensifyg. “I was acced of beg homosexual, which is illegal Bermuda, ” Domen rells.

If I’m gog to be ostracized for beg a homosexual, I might as well be one. I want to love and be loved, so I’m gog to the homosexual liftyle….

CALIFORNIA PASTOR CLAIMS SATAN IS BEHD GAYS GETTG MARRIED

Even though he wanted to turn toward God, he thought that as soon as he got back on his feet he would probably drift back to the homosexual liftyle. “But what if you are able to help te the church on how to rpond to the homosexual muny, ” the pastor untered, “how to share the love of Christ and stand for tth at the same time.

I’ve e out of the homosexual liftyle, I’m a pastor, I jt bought my first hoe, and now I have my gree. “Homosexualy is a behavr. Some people nsir themselv gay bee they are attracted to members of their own genr, even if they do not act on those attractns.

CHURCH CL TO DISCIPLE GAY PASTOR

So may be biblilly allowable for a pastor to nsir himself gay—that is, he stggl wh homosexual attractn—if he is mted to sexual pury, never acts on those sir, and never enurag anyone else to do so (see Romans 1:32). For the purpos of this article, we will fe gay as “practicg a homosexual liftyle.

THIS METHODIST CHURCH IS MARRYG TWO GAY MEN IN AN ACT OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

This qutn of whether the Bible warrants a gay pastor was unheard of until the last uple of s. There was never any qutn wh the church about whether a practicg homosexual uld or should pastor a church. The sfulns of homosexualy has never been up for bate until our sexually exploive culture cid should be.

God’s Word is as clear on the s of homosexual behavr as has always been (Levic 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26–27; 1 Timothy 1:10; 1 Corthians 6:9). Homosexualy is clud often lists of wickedns and never validated any way Scripture.