Uned Methodist Church spl over gay marriage, clergy hs Colorado

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Jordan Conley, a gay man om Knott County, says servg as -pastor at Crcent Hill Baptist Church is "a burn that I do not take lightly."

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Colo. pastor Ted Haggard, who fell om grace 2006 after a gay sex-and-dg sndal, is now facg siar allegatns at another church * colorado gay preacher *

– The foundg pastor of a send Colorado church has rigned over gay sex allegatns, jt weeks after the evangelil muny was shaken by the sndal surroundg megachurch lear Ted Haggard. Haggard, a gay-marriage opponent, admted to unspecified "sexual immoraly" when he rigned last month as print of the Natnal Associatn of Evangelils and pastor of the 14, 000-member New Life Church Colorado Sprgs.

Click here to read the Denver Post church board of elrs accepted Barn' rignatn on the viotape, which The Post was allowed to view, Barn told church members: "I have stggled wh homosexualy sce I was a 5-year-old boy.... (RNS) — Former Colorado megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, who fell om grace 2006 after a gay sex-and-dg sndal, is now facg some of the same allegatns at another church. Haggard went through a “spirual rtoratn” procs, and his wife, Gayle, wrote a book about the experience, lled “Why I Stayed.

Ted Haggard, the former megachurch pastor who fell om grace amid a sex sndal, speaks durg a news nference Colorado Sprgs, Colorado, on June 2, 2010, wh his wife, Gayle, at his si. Former Colorado megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, who fell om grace 2006 after a gay sex-and-dg sndal, is now facg some of the same allegatns at another church. Haggard’s wife, Gayle, wrote a book about their experience navigatg the sndal, tled “Why I Stayed.

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There are plenty of church that accept out gay men. Not all gay men want partners who they n manipulate and who are unable to nsent. It’s clear he is a gay man tryg to preach, teach and live a liftyle he nnot or will not nform wh.

A divisn over whether the Uned Methodist Church should allow gay clergy and sanctn same-sex marriag is g a spl wh the natn’s send-largt Prottant nomatn, and on Thursday, 38 Uned Methodist ngregatns the Wt will leave the church durg the Mounta Sky Conference’s annual meetg Colorado Sprgs.

The Uned Methodist Church do not ndone the ordatn of openly gay clergy or allow same-sex marriag, but ’s the nservative church that are choosg to leave — part bee they fear a change doctre is g. The Uned Methodist Church spl is particularly bter the Mounta Sky Conference, which has a reputatn wh the nomatn as one of the more liberal nferenc and where s members elected the nomatn’s first openly gay bishop 2016.

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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. * colorado gay preacher *

The church’s posn on homosexualy has been evolvg sce 1972, when first was clud doctre, known as the “church disciple” wh the Uned Methodist fah. Bishops, regnizg the creasg acceptance of homosexualy the Uned Stat, lled for a special meetg to discs and possibly change the church’s stance on LGBTQ clergy and marriag.

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The majory of the 2019 legat — 54% — voted to uphold church disciple that says, “The practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg, ” and says “self-avowed practicg homosexuals” nnot be ordaed as misters or appoted to serve the church. The vote was supported by ngregatns om the Midwt and the Southeastern Uned Stat as well as ternatnal legat, pecially om Ai, which has a sizable Uned Methodist populatn and where homosexualy is largely not accepted. “No, we’re not homophob, ” Vt said.

Now 29, the Knott County native was lled last month to serve at the Louisville church where he was ordaed earlier this year, markg the first time the Crcent Hill tablishment has been led by a gay pastor. "In fact, I thk folks will e to our church, bee they have heard of a church where there's not only gay man servg as -pastor, but my -pastor Andrea Woolley is a woman.

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At the time, he said, he was told to not go to Crcent Hill Baptist Church bee women preached, and there were gay men who served as ans. He had not yet e out as gay while at the Louisville school, and he said what he had been tght about the LGBTQ muny affected his mental state.

"That was my biggt fear over my time over there, is that someone would fd out that I was gay. "Conley me out as gay 2014, after he left Boyce College whout fishg his gree.

It's a tt Southern Baptists face, and Al Mohler is failgRelated:Kentucky's reigng Teacher of the Year says LGBTQ discrimatn led him to leave his jobReach Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez at; follow her on Twter at @SoyAnaAlvarezThis article origally appeared on Louisville Courier Journal: Louisville's Crcent Hill Baptist Church lls gay man as -pastor. A gay prostute claims he had a three-year pay-for-sex relatnship wh Natnal Associatn of Evangelils print Ted Haggard.

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