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• ORAL ROBERTS’ GAY GRANDSON SPEAKS OUT
• ORAL ROBERTS' GAY GRANDSON HAD ONE TOUGH G OUT
• THE HEARTBROKEN LIFE OF RONNIE ROBERTSORAL ROBERTS’ SON HAD A SECRETJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED I’M JONATHAN. I BLOG GOD.·12 M READ·MAR 19, 2021--5SHAREIN THE LATE 1980S, A YOUNG ANOREXIC WOMAN NAMED RACHEL WAS LYG A HOSPAL BED. SHE TOLD HER MOTHER: “IF I’M GOG TO DIE, I HAVE TO KNOW THE TTH.”HER MOTHER ADMTED . YEARS LATER, 2005, RACHEL SAW THAT HER , RANDY POTTS, HAD THE SAME SECRET HIMSELF. SHE TOLD HIM HERS, AND 2010, RANDY TOLD THE WORLD.HIS UNCLE, RONNIE ROBERTS, THE ELST SON OF ORAL ROBERTS, THE FAMO FAH-HEALG CHRISTIAN MISTER, HAD BEEN GAY.RONNIE ROBERTS (OM “HIS DARLG WIFE, EVELYN”) (LORIZED/PHOTO ENHANCED)RANDLY REARCHED HIS GAY UNCLE AND 2016, ON INSTAGRAM, DID A LONG POST ABOUT HIM.THAT WAS REPRTED BY THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER, WHERE I NOTICED . RANDY HAD ASSEMBLED A LOT OF RMATN, BUT MORE IS KNOWN ABOUT RONALD DAVID ROBERTS, THE SEND CHILD AND FIRST SON OF ORAL AND EVELYN ROBERTS.BORN TULSA ON OCTOBER 22, 1943, ALL HIS LIFE, HE WAS ‘RONNIE’, A ‘PASTOR’S KID’, PLACED ON EARTH TO BE AN EXAMPLE OF A GOOD CHRISTIAN.HE DID HIS BT. A 1985 BGRAPHY, ORAL ROBERTS: AN AMERIN LIFE BY DAVID EDW HARRELL, JR., FDS ORAL SAYG HE’S SO PROUD OF HIS “LTLE HELPER.”SO BRIGHT! SO “NIMBLE WH HIS MD AND TONGUE,” ORAL SAYS. RONNIE’S MEMORY IS CREDIBLE. AT AGE FOUR HIS FATHER ASKS HIM AFTER A SERMON TO SUMMARIZE S MSAGE. RONNIE REC THE WHOLE THG BACK.AS HIS MOTHER PLAYS PIANO AT CHURCH, RONNIE WORKS THE SERVIC TOO. AT THE ALTAR LL, HE SGS “DON’T TURN HIM AWAY” — AND EVERYONE IS SO CHARMED THEY WANT TO GET SAVED ALL OVER AGA.“HE HAD SUCH A SWEET LTLE VOICE,” HIS MOTHER WR.I’M READG HER 1976 BOOK, HIS DARLG WIFE, EVELYN, WHICH IS EVERYTHG AN EVANGELIL MOTHER’S MEMOIR SHOULD BE. SO PROUD OF HER “WELL-BEHAVED” CHRISTIAN SON. “HE WOULD FD HIMSELF LONG NVERSATNS WH PEOPLE AND THEY WOULD BE FASCATED BY HIM BEE THEY HAD NEVER MET ANYONE HIS AGE WHO KNEW SO MUCH ABOUT THE BIBLE.”GOD HAD “SOMETHG SPECIAL” MD FOR HIM SHE WAS QUE SURE.
• ORAL ROBERTS' GAY GRANDSON SPEAKS OUT (VIDEO)
• ORAL ROBERTS' GRANDSON SPEAKS ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY

ORAL ROBERTS’ GAY GRANDSON SPEAKS OUT

GAY PROGENY | Randy Potts, left, attend the funeral of his grandfather, Oral Roberts, right, but wasn’t ved to s wh fay. But at 30, he me out as gay and moved to Dallas. Ronnie me out as gay to the Rev.

Although was pretty mon knowledge the LGBT muny that Oral Roberts had a gay son, the fay and at church was a big secret. “In the gay muny people knew that, ” he said. But Randy Roberts Potts didn't adm to his fay, and the world, that he was gay until he was 31, jt six years ago.

That's largely bee the weight of his fay name -- Roberts -- ma beg a gay man untenable.

ORAL ROBERTS' GAY GRANDSON HAD ONE TOUGH G OUT

Oral Roberts, was one of the pastors who fluenced a generatn of people to believe that beg gay was a s. "Durg the public event my mother looked right at me as she talked about how gay people were gog to hell, " said Potts.

"A lot of people say that attu toward gay people is hate, but I don't thk 's that simple. It's fear that if you at all embrace a gay person you are aidg Satan. Potts is Mnota to speak at several functns about growg up gay a proment evangelil fay, startg Sunday at All God's Children MMC.

Andrew's Round Table has brought Potts here to unter attempts Mnota to ban gay marriage. Jeff and Lori Wilfahrt, whose gay son was killed on duty Afghanistan this year, are part of the group brgg Potts to Mnota.

THE HEARTBROKEN LIFE OF RONNIE ROBERTSORAL ROBERTS’ SON HAD A SECRETJONATHAN POLETTI·FOLLOWPUBLISHED I’M JONATHAN. I BLOG GOD.·12 M READ·MAR 19, 2021--5SHAREIN THE LATE 1980S, A YOUNG ANOREXIC WOMAN NAMED RACHEL WAS LYG A HOSPAL BED. SHE TOLD HER MOTHER: “IF I’M GOG TO DIE, I HAVE TO KNOW THE TTH.”HER MOTHER ADMTED . YEARS LATER, 2005, RACHEL SAW THAT HER , RANDY POTTS, HAD THE SAME SECRET HIMSELF. SHE TOLD HIM HERS, AND 2010, RANDY TOLD THE WORLD.HIS UNCLE, RONNIE ROBERTS, THE ELST SON OF ORAL ROBERTS, THE FAMO FAH-HEALG CHRISTIAN MISTER, HAD BEEN GAY.RONNIE ROBERTS (OM “HIS DARLG WIFE, EVELYN”) (LORIZED/PHOTO ENHANCED)RANDLY REARCHED HIS GAY UNCLE AND 2016, ON INSTAGRAM, DID A LONG POST ABOUT HIM.THAT WAS REPRTED BY THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER, WHERE I NOTICED . RANDY HAD ASSEMBLED A LOT OF RMATN, BUT MORE IS KNOWN ABOUT RONALD DAVID ROBERTS, THE SEND CHILD AND FIRST SON OF ORAL AND EVELYN ROBERTS.BORN TULSA ON OCTOBER 22, 1943, ALL HIS LIFE, HE WAS ‘RONNIE’, A ‘PASTOR’S KID’, PLACED ON EARTH TO BE AN EXAMPLE OF A GOOD CHRISTIAN.HE DID HIS BT. A 1985 BGRAPHY, ORAL ROBERTS: AN AMERIN LIFE BY DAVID EDW HARRELL, JR., FDS ORAL SAYG HE’S SO PROUD OF HIS “LTLE HELPER.”SO BRIGHT! SO “NIMBLE WH HIS MD AND TONGUE,” ORAL SAYS. RONNIE’S MEMORY IS CREDIBLE. AT AGE FOUR HIS FATHER ASKS HIM AFTER A SERMON TO SUMMARIZE S MSAGE. RONNIE REC THE WHOLE THG BACK.AS HIS MOTHER PLAYS PIANO AT CHURCH, RONNIE WORKS THE SERVIC TOO. AT THE ALTAR LL, HE SGS “DON’T TURN HIM AWAY” — AND EVERYONE IS SO CHARMED THEY WANT TO GET SAVED ALL OVER AGA.“HE HAD SUCH A SWEET LTLE VOICE,” HIS MOTHER WR.I’M READG HER 1976 BOOK, HIS DARLG WIFE, EVELYN, WHICH IS EVERYTHG AN EVANGELIL MOTHER’S MEMOIR SHOULD BE. SO PROUD OF HER “WELL-BEHAVED” CHRISTIAN SON. “HE WOULD FD HIMSELF LONG NVERSATNS WH PEOPLE AND THEY WOULD BE FASCATED BY HIM BEE THEY HAD NEVER MET ANYONE HIS AGE WHO KNEW SO MUCH ABOUT THE BIBLE.”GOD HAD “SOMETHG SPECIAL” MD FOR HIM SHE WAS QUE SURE.

Potts, a ntributor to the "It Gets Better" book and mpaign aimed to prevent gay teen suicis, will speak at var events through Wednday, preachg tolerance and acceptance. Potts told a few iends durg that perd, but his fay had no clue he was gay until a few years ago.

Potts was not the first person the Roberts fay to adm beg gay. His uncle, Oral Roberts' olst son, was gay and mted suici his 30s.

ORAL ROBERTS' GAY GRANDSON SPEAKS OUT (VIDEO)

But was even more difficult for Ronnie bee homosexualy was even ls unrstood the early 1980s. As Potts has bee more outspoken, more young gay men and women have wrten to him wh qutns about beg gay and Christians. "He knew I was gay, but he didn't brg up, " said Potts.

She told him hers, and 2010, Randy told the uncle, Ronnie Roberts, the elst son of Oral Roberts, the famo fah-healg Christian mister, had been Roberts (om “His Darlg Wife, Evelyn”) (lorized/photo enhanced)Randly rearched his gay uncle and 2016, on Instagram, did a long post about was reprted by The Guardian newspaper, where I noticed . The summer of 1967, between his hman year at KU and his sophomore year at ORU, Richard succsfully dned for a spot on the chos at the Kansas Cy Starlight Theatre, an 8, 000-seat venue on the regnal circu for Broadway stars. Ron was gay—a fact that his father uld not accept.

Both are gay. Views exprsed The Advote's Commentary articl are those of the wrers and do not necsarily reprent the views of The Advote or our parent pany, Pri always seemed that there was nothg worse than growg up a closeted gay Catholic.

ORAL ROBERTS' GRANDSON SPEAKS ABOUT COMG OUT AS GAY

" former stunt Andrew Hartzler told Poli, which also explaed that Hartzler was gay and that he did not raise his hand bee beg gay vlated the ORU honor and he uld be expelled for .

Hartzler had signed a pledge: "I will not engage or attempt to engage any illic, unscriptural sexual acts, which clu any homosexual activy and sexual terurse wh one who is not my spoe. He was feroc his hate diatrib about gay men and AIDS.

"Unfortunately for Hartzler, his trmatic experience wh the ia of beg gay started as far back as first gra.