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Contents:
- GAY CHRISTIAN CELEBRI: A PECULIAR AND ALARMG DEVELOPMENT
- CAN SOMEONE BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
- ARE THERE REALLY “GAY CHRISTIANS”?
- PRO STRONGMAN CHAMPN ROB KEARNEY OUT AS GAY
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
- THE EX-GAY CHRISTIANY MOVEMENT IS MAKG A QUIET EBACK. THE EFFECTS ON LGBTQ YOUTH ULD BE VASTATG.
GAY CHRISTIAN CELEBRI: A PECULIAR AND ALARMG DEVELOPMENT
Can someone be gay and Christian? Is possible to be a gay Christian? Can you be a Christian and stggle wh homosexualy? * christian power gay *
He fend tradnal marriage a 2008 Christiany Today article, sayg he wasn’t sure he’d perform a same-sex blsg, although he did exprs support for gay and lbian civil rights. After takg a leave of absence om Harvard Universy to study the Bible and homosexualy, Matthew V gave a speech at his church about acceptg gay Christians that has amassed over 1 ln views on YouTube sce 2012. He also started The Reformatn Project, a nonprof tryg to “reform church teachg on sexual orientatn and genr inty, ” and wrote the book “God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships.
The former pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church publicly stated his views on gay marriage while speakg at San Francis’s Grace Cathedral 2013. In a post on his webse tled “My Comg Out Letter, ” Christian rock mician Trey Pearson told fans that he intified as a gay man, spe beg married wh children. Although she has intified as gay sce high school, Julie Rodgers has officially supported gay marriage for only a few years.
As she has chronicled on her blog and The Washgton Post, she first spent a long time advotg celibacy for Christians who were gay or lbian.
CAN SOMEONE BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
When I started wrg my new book, God and the Gay Christian, I was well aware that Christians who oppose same-sex marriage the church have long ed the Bible to fend their pot of view. As a gay Christian om an evangelil church Kansas, that stat quo has had a damagg impact on my life, which is one reason I'm settg out to change the flty perspective. Here are 10 reasons why God accepts gay Christians. * christian power gay *
” This label om her posns on LGBT rights and homosexualy, topics she’s grappled wh publicly sce startg her blog 2008.
ARE THERE REALLY “GAY CHRISTIANS”?
In one of her old posts, “An Evangelil’s Rponse to Homosexualy, ” she ref to chose a si of the issue but do adm to wonrg if the evangelil church “has wrong. While he said recently that his church, Northland, A Church Distributed, will mata that the Bible prohibs gay relatnships, he now believ nservative church should wele and support those of all sexual orientatns. I’ve worked up a good lather the so-lled “culture war” around homosexualy and same-sex marriage for about two s now.
PRO STRONGMAN CHAMPN ROB KEARNEY OUT AS GAY
However, to bate the issue serly and tthfully, we mt seek an hont picture of what our opponents actually believe — workg om what we thk they believe is neher helpful nor there are people of many diverse beliefs and nvictns — cludg gay and lbian people — who oppose same-sex marriage, here are 10 foundatnal tths that rm the tradnal, orthodox Christian belief. Rather than beg notable for preachg skill, teachg abily, or amic rigor the new Christian celebri are beg foisted to the foreont of public Christian disurse bee of one thg: their dallianc the homosexual liftyle.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
I’ve been very fortunate to be able to share my story wh believers and help the church unrstand homosexualy wh a biblil worldview tact; rather than viewg this s as an inty, we’ve got to see the s, “practicg homosexualy”, as a u of unbelief and treat and the sner like we would any other lost person. Neverthels, ’s hard to image that Thom would be anythg other than an obscure hoewife if not for her personal experience as a homosexual.
THE EX-GAY CHRISTIANY MOVEMENT IS MAKG A QUIET EBACK. THE EFFECTS ON LGBTQ YOUTH ULD BE VASTATG.
Like Thom, Butterfield is famo for her past homosexual experienc and has bee a Christian celebry as a rult of her personal experienc wh a ntroversial s.
“I thk we’re movg toward a time our society when, the next 20 to 25 years, Christians are gog to see a massive amount of persecutn when to the topic of homosexualy, and there will be no such thg as tolerance for Christiany.
In her se, her vulgary and progrsivism is even more promently foisted upon the marketplace of Chrisan ias as rult of her stat as a former homosexual, albe one that still often projects herself mascule ways.