For nearly 20 years, Greg Johnson has served as a pastor to the ngregatn of Memorial Prbyterian Church St. Louis, which is part of the Prbyterian Church Ameri. Last year, the PCA attempted to ban clergy for intifyg as gay.
Contents:
- WHAT COM AFTER THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT? THE SAME THG THAT CAME BEFORE.
- PRIT OUTED AS FORMER GAY PORN STAR REF TO RIGN OVER HIS SECRET PAST
- EX-GAYS RPOND TO ANDY STANLEY’S CLAIM THAT LGBT PEOPLE HAVE ‘MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU’
- FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
- THE GAY PREACHER’S WIFE REVEALS SEX SNDAL THAT LED TO DIVORCE
- HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
- GAY, EX-HILLSONG LEAR SPEAKS ABOUT EXPERIENCE WH UNCLEAR POLICY
- US: ‘EX-GAY’ PREACHER ADMS NTUG TO E GRDR TO NTACT GAY MEN
- EX-GAY MARRIED, BEME A PASTOR
WHAT COM AFTER THE EX-GAY MOVEMENT? THE SAME THG THAT CAME BEFORE.
Pastor Jose Santiago, who is now married to a woman, says he qu porn and beg gay after he was lled by God * ex gay preacher *
Mike had explaed to me how he felt he uld never go to church bee he was gay.
Lookg back on this enunter, I n see that had all the trappgs of what beme known as the ex-gay movement, of which I was once an eager proponent. I had a ttimony, a story to tell about leavg homosexualy behd.
PRIT OUTED AS FORMER GAY PORN STAR REF TO RIGN OVER HIS SECRET PAST
The Gay Preacher's Wife Reveals Sex Sndal That Led To Divorce * ex gay preacher *
I was tryg to nvce myself that I was a straight man wh a disease—a curable one—lled homosexualy.
EX-GAYS RPOND TO ANDY STANLEY’S CLAIM THAT LGBT PEOPLE HAVE ‘MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU’
* ex gay preacher *
Alan Medger, the first executive director of Exod Internatnal, scribed as “a change self-perceptn which the dividual no longer intifi him- or herself as homosexual.
And, wh my ex-gay amework, I wasn’t lyg; I was claimg my new realy. The emergence of Exod Internatnal 1976 had set evangelils on a hopeful path toward curg homosexualy. Founr Frank Worthen explaed, “When we started Exod, the premise was that God uld change you om gay to straight.
FORMER 'EX-GAY' LEARS DENOUNCE 'CONVERSN THERAPY' IN A NEW DOCUMENTARY
An "ex-gay" preacher, who claimed to have "turned away" om his "homsexual sir" was disvered g the gay datg app, Grdr, and admted that the profile was his. * ex gay preacher *
Recent bat among nservative Anglins and Prbyterians over whether someone n claim a “gay inty” are only the latt round of siar disput that have echoed church rridors for years. After all, renouncg a homosexual self-perceptn was an sential first step nversn therapy. One effect of this approach was that mandated that non-straight believers hi behd a mask, pretendg to be anythg but gay.
Before there was an ex-gay paradigm of cure, there was an olr orthodoxy that clud a Christian paradigm of rg for believers who aren’t straight.
I’ve wonred whether Henri Nouwen had his own homosexualy md when he wrote of the difference between re and cure. In the bgraphy Wound Prophet, Michael Ford documents how Nouwen discsed his experience as a celibate gay man wh his close circle of iends. As Stott wrote Issu Facg Christians Today back 1982, “In every discsn about homosexualy we mt be rigoro differentiatg between this ‘beg’ and ‘dog, ’ that is, between a person’s inty and activy, sexual preference and sexual practice, nstutn and nduct.
THE GAY PREACHER’S WIFE REVEALS SEX SNDAL THAT LED TO DIVORCE
Ex-gay lear enuraged people to pursue fah “the darkt rners.” * ex gay preacher *
For Stott, a homosexual orientatn was part of the believer’s inty—a fallen part, but one that the gospel don’t erase so much as humbl. Lewis spoke a 1954 letter to Sheldon Vanken of a “p male homosexual” wh no apparent ntradictn. In the Uned Stat, as the 1969 Stonewall rts New York announced the birth of the gay rights movement, orthodox Prottants were already askg what posive visn Scripture giv for people who are gay.
The 1970 psdonymo InterVarsy Prs book The Returns of Love: Letters of a Christian Homosexual mapped out a path of re and was promoted by Stott. The book’s celibate gay Anglin thor explaed that he was still a virg at the time he wrote . In a 1968 letter to an European pastor, Francis Schaeffer lamented the church’s plicy margalizg gay people.
The pastor had seen no fewer than six gay people m suici, and he sought Schaeffer’s unsel.
HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
“The homophile tends to be phed out of human life (and pecially orthodox church life) even if he do not practice homosexualy, ” lamented Schaeffer. ” Ined, Schaeffer’s mistry beme a mag for gay people wrtlg wh Christiany. Brought up the challenge of gay people wh Schaeffer private, Schaeffer mented that the issue was plited.
GAY, EX-HILLSONG LEAR SPEAKS ABOUT EXPERIENCE WH UNCLEAR POLICY
In 1980, Stott nvened a gatherg of Anglin evangelils to map out a pastoral approach to homosexualy. They led wh public repentance for their own ss agast gay people. In a statement, the lears clared, “We repent of the cripplg ‘homophobia’ … which has loured the attus toward homosexual people of all too many of , and ll our fellow Christians to siar repentance.
It was a staggerg nfsn at a time when popular opn was still biased strongly agast gay people. The statement lled specifilly for qualified nonpracticg gay people to be received as ndidat for ordatn to mistry. Graham had been asked whether he would support the ordatn of gay men to the Christian mistry.
US: ‘EX-GAY’ PREACHER ADMS NTUG TO E GRDR TO NTACT GAY MEN
The gospel of J Christ offers a posive visn for gay people. “In homosexualy, ” Lewis explaed to Vanken, “as every other tribulatn, [the works of God] n be ma manift. Lewis asked, “What should the posive life of the homosexual be?
What is the posive Christian visn the gospel giv for gay people? Whout that relatnship wh a Savr, there is no pot speakg of a biblil sexual ethic, eher to straight or gay people. No gay people are gog to embrace such an ethic unls they fall love wh J.
Schaeffer, Stott, and Graham all stated on ocsn their shared belief that some people are born gay. Stott, himself celibate, explaed: “At the heart of the homosexual ndn is a ep and natural hunger for mutual love, a search for inty and a longg for pletens. If gay people nnot fd the thgs the lol ‘church fay, ’ we have no bs to go on g that exprsn.
EX-GAY MARRIED, BEME A PASTOR
Lewis, Schaeffer, Graham, and Stott also viewed the homosexual ndn as an unchosen orientatn wh no reliable expectatn of a change this life. They showed great ncern for the emotnal and relatnal needs of gay people.
In his NPR terview, Frank Schaeffer scribed his father’s Swiss mistry, L’Abri, as a place “where homosexuals—both lbians and gay men—are weled.
Schaeffer foraw signifint cultural chang when, 1978, an Orthodox Prbyterian Church ngregatn San Francis found self sued for releasg a gay employee who had vlated the church’s of nduct.