Palm Sprgs Gay Men's Chos hosts school suppli drive - KESQ

Contents:

• PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE
• COLORADO PASTOR ADMS TO GAY SEX, RIGNS CHURCH POST
• STUDY: METHODIST NGREGATNS LEAVG OVER GAY CLERGY, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE TEND TO BE WHE, SOUTHERN

PALM SPRGS GAY MEN’S CHOS HOSTS SCHOOL SUPPLI DRIVE

San Diego — On the first Sunday of this month, the pastor of a Scripps Ranch church brought a gut speaker who talks about how she me to believe beg gay is wrong. The venue was San Diego Unified’s Marshall Middle School, where the church has held s servic for the better part of two speaker was Patti Height of Out of Egypt Mistri, who told her dience she ed to nsir herself gay but now believ that was a “false inty.

” Acrdg to her webse, her work aims to help Christians mister to LGBTQ people, believg that beg gay is patible wh beg Christian. A Marshall Middle parent filed a plat wh the district, also askg the district to end s ntract wh the though the church holds s events outsi of school hours and the church is separate om Marshall Middle, some parents and activists argued that stunts uld still be affected by the knowledge that their school had provid a fom for somebody who nmns homosexualy. He said neher had tght anythg hateful or discrimatory, and his church was not tryg to make gay people of the reason he ved the speaker was to help parents whose children thk they might be gay or transgenr, he said.

In her talk for Canyon Sprgs, Height told the ngregatn that her past LGBTQ experienc and inty were tied to years of abe she had endured om men her life, cludg her father and readg parts of the Bible and startg to attend church, she said, she me to believe that homosexualy was a s and that she was not actually gay. ”Qun heard Height say that Christians should meet gay people where they are, but Height’s msage me across to Qun as: Christians need to help gay people turn back to God by tryg not to be gay.

COLORADO PASTOR ADMS TO GAY SEX, RIGNS CHURCH POST

You’re the on that need to open your ey and see that [beg gay] is love and not an abomatn, ” Qun, who found the pri uncil and who is gay, grew up Christian and attend Canyon Sprgs years ago. She stopped gog to church bee she said ma her feel like somethg was wrong wh found the prumptn Height’s talk that gay people n bee straight to be harmful, and she wish Canyon Sprgs had ved a current member of the LGBTQ muny stead.

STUDY: METHODIST NGREGATNS LEAVG OVER GAY CLERGY, SAME-SEX MARRIAGE TEND TO BE WHE, SOUTHERN

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