In This Sgaporean Church, You Can Be Happy and Gay

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Free Communy Church is Sgapore's only affirmg church. This means that they openly support transgenr, lbian, gay, and bisexual people, and celebrate same-sex relatnships. This extends to the mistry: pastors Miak and Ple are both gay. Last month I went on vatn to Sgapore to see my partner, and joed FCC for their Sunday service…

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IN THIS SGAPOREAN CHURCH, YOU CAN BE HAPPY AND GAY

From an pennt cema to a bnch favoure, nnect wh the LGBTQ+ muny beyond the ual gay bars * church singapore gay *

Helmg are Siew, the first ordaed openly-gay mister the untry, and Pastor Ple Ong, who intifi as lbian. Photo: Ko Lyn Cheang“We are a Christian Church, first and foremost, not a gay Church, ” said Siew, who spent three years pletg a Masters Divy at the Pacific School of Relign Berkeley, California.

IN SGAPORE, A CHRISTIAN GROUP AIMS TO HELP LGBTQ INDIVIDUALS ‘OVERE’ BEG GAY

The documentatn and chroniclg of gay venu Sgapore form an important aspect of the human geography of a signifint segment of the populatn. It was extremely difficult to fd or rerd such rmatn the past as the social activi nducted the areas were sometim at... * church singapore gay *

The Methodist Church Sgapore's Bishop Gordon Wong told VICE that the Methodist Church's posn is that “the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachgs, ” but said celibate romantic same-sex relatnships are "theoretilly" permissible.

Intellectual, well-read, and “radil, ” said Pastor Siew, the foundg members were active Sgapore’s fledgg gay and lbian liberatn movement. Photo: Ko Lyn CheangThe Church’s first parish, where they spent half a year 2004, was a pub on the fourth floor of an elegant red brick shophoe buildg that was also home to a proment gay bar known as Mox.

SGAPORE GAY VENU: NTEMPORARY

SINGAPORE — Members of the lol Christian muny a dialogue ssn on Saturday (Jan 15) noted that the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) muny has faced a lot of hurt wh their relig groups, which may have led to trma and unhealthy pg mechanisms. * church singapore gay *

Worshippers met beneath two silver dis balls hangg om the ceilg where they listened to the pastors preach acceptance of May 2018, while Ong was preparg for a Church event to memorate Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, she received a ll om the Sgaporean police who qutned her about the event. “Let me put simple and unambiguo terms: A homosexual Christian is an oxymoron, ” Yang wrote. “The problem is, even if you look at the vios they have done, [the participants] say they don’t intify as gay, ” said Ong.

Sgapore has crimalized gay sex while pledgg to add a nstutnal amendment to protect the fn of marriage as between one man and one woman.

A CONVERSATN WH PASTOR IAN TOH & EX-GAY MEMBER JASON LIM: RELIGN, JOANNA THENG & THE LGBT COMMUNY

The Alliance of Pentestal & Charismatic Church of Sgapore (APCCS) argued that the cisn “signals a rewrg of acceptable sexual relatnships, and celebrat homosexualy as beg characteristic of a mastream social environment.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* CHURCH SINGAPORE GAY

In Sgapore, A Christian Group Aims to Help LGBTQ Individuals ‘Overe’ Beg Gay .

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