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.
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 had a ttimony, a story to tell about leavg homosexualy behd. I was tryg to nvce myself that I was a straight man wh a disease—a curable one—lled homosexualy. 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.
EX-GAYS RPOND TO ANDY STANLEY’S CLAIM THAT LGBT PEOPLE HAVE ‘MORE FAH THAN A LOT OF YOU’
* 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.
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 *
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.
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 *
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.
HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
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.
GAY, EX-HILLSONG LEAR SPEAKS ABOUT EXPERIENCE WH UNCLEAR POLICY
Lewis spoke a 1954 letter to Sheldon Vanken of a “p male homosexual” wh no apparent ntradictn.
US: ‘EX-GAY’ PREACHER ADMS NTUG TO E GRDR TO NTACT GAY MEN
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.
EX-GAY MARRIED, BEME A PASTOR
The pastor had seen no fewer than six gay people m suici, and he sought Schaeffer’s unsel.