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Contents:
- 'TORN': LIVG AS AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
- GAY CHRISTIAN ACTIVIST: BAYLOR NEED NOT ABANDON THEOLOGY TO EMBRACE LGBTQ STUNTS
- EP 40: JT LEE—GAY, GEEK & CHRISTIAN
- TORN: RCUG THE GOSPEL OM THE GAYS-VS -CHRISTIANS DEBATE
- 'TORN': LIVG AS AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
'TORN': LIVG AS AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
Jt Lee grew up a Southern Baptist fay. At age 18, he me out to his fay and church, who had trouble acceptg him as a gay man. Lee later started the Gay Christian Network to enurage a dialogue between gay Christians, their fai and their church. His new book is Torn. * justin lee gay christian *
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GAY CHRISTIAN ACTIVIST: BAYLOR NEED NOT ABANDON THEOLOGY TO EMBRACE LGBTQ STUNTS
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"I didn't know I was gay at first, bee I was the kid who was preachg agast folks acceptg themselv as gay, " he tells Guy Raz, host of weekends on All Thgs Consired. Lee formed the Gay Christian Network 2001 to try and help other gay Christian kids and their fai talk to one another, as well as wh their rpective church. His new book is lled Torn: Rcug the Gospel om the Gays Vs.
Interview Highlights On g out "I absolutely believed was a sful choice to be gay. ' When I turned to the Christians I most rpected my life — my parents and my iends and my pastors — I found that they didn't have a lot of answers for me, other than jt don't be gay.
EP 40: JT LEE—GAY, GEEK & CHRISTIAN
Torn: Rcug the Gospel om the Gays-vs -Christians Debate (9781455514304) by Jt Lee * justin lee gay christian *
On beg 'too gay' or 'too Christian' "I talk to people still every day who are jt livg that nstant feelg of beg alone, and 's very prsg when you feel like nobody unrstands you. You feel like you've been ught up the midst of this culture war between the gay folks on one si and the Christians on the other si. And here you are, a gay Christian, and there's no place for you.
TORN: RCUG THE GOSPEL OM THE GAYS-VS -CHRISTIANS DEBATE
Jt Lee grew up a Southern Baptist fay. At age 18, he me out to his fay and church, who had trouble acceptg him as a gay man. Lee later started the Gay Christian Network to enurage a dialogue between gay Christians, their fai and their church. His new book is Torn. * justin lee gay christian *
Jt Lee is the founr and executive director of the Gay Christian Network.
(For more on this, see Jt’s book Torn: Rcug the Gospel om the Gays-vs. Gay Christian activist Jt Lee harbored no illns that his vatn to Baylor Universy would rult a sudn, official affirmatn of LGBTQ stunts on the Wa, Texas mp.
'TORN': LIVG AS AN OPENLY GAY CHRISTIAN
Baylor’s gay, lbian and transgenr stunt muny knows this all too well. But don’t require an abandonment of tradnal theology to treat gays and lbians wh Christian love, said Lee, who grew up an evangelizg Southern Baptist North Carola. That example has been the dream of LGBT stunts their efforts to ga official regnn of Gamma Alpha Upsilon, or GAY, Greek letters.
Last sprg they gathered more than 3, 000 signatur a petn drive for regnn of GAY. ‘Christians n’t be gay’. Christians n’t be gay, ” was his attu, he said.
Lee shared about va search for mistri and therapi that uld make him straight and his eventual acceptance of homosexualy as God-given. He shared those experienc and the perspective he gaed om them books like Torn: Rcug the Gospel om the Gays-vs.