‘I never wanted to be gay’: Christian mician out, movg letter to fans - The Washgton Post

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• OPENLY ‘GAY’ RERDG ARTIST REACH NO. 1 ‘CHRISTIAN’ SPOT ON ITUN
• GAY WORSHIP ARTIST TOPS LREN DAIGLE FOR NUMBER ONE CHRISTIAN MIC SPOT ON ITUN
• WHO'S GAY GOSPEL MIC?
• SOUTHERN GOSPEL SGER KENNY BISHOP IS NOW A GAY UNED CHURCH OF CHRIST PASTOR
• PROMENT CHRISTIAN SGER COM OUT OF THE CLOSET AS GAY! WHO IS IT?
• 40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• 35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)
• ‘I NEVER WANTED TO BE GAY’: CHRISTIAN MICIAN OUT, MOVG LETTER TO FANS
• FOR GAY CHRISTIAN MICIANS, WORK BALANC FAH, ART, LOVE
• MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE
• GAY WORSHIP ARTIST TOPS LREN DAIGLE FOR NUMBER ONE CHRISTIAN MIC SPOT ON ITUN

OPENLY ‘GAY’ RERDG ARTIST REACH NO. 1 ‘CHRISTIAN’ SPOT ON ITUN

The worship sger, who me out as gay on The Voice 2019, told Baldridge he was let go om his job as a worship lear at his church after revealg his sexualy. 's high time christian mic got a shake up wh a msage of realy & hope beyond the homogenized CCM...

The reactn mirrors the way many morn megachurch eher offer vague statements about acceptance while tryg to shift the foc away om their anti-gay polici or stay quiet on the issue. Sger-songwrer Julien Baker me out as queer 2016 alongsi Trey Pearson om Everyday Sunday, who me out as gay an emotnal letter to fans. The Gospel church and homosexualy has reportedly had a long ter-twg relatnship.

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GAY WORSHIP ARTIST TOPS LREN DAIGLE FOR NUMBER ONE CHRISTIAN MIC SPOT ON ITUN

We wrote about her a few months ago after she shouted “Gay rights! ” at a Swchfoot ncert, a practice she advot dog orr to publicly force ‘Christian’ artists to nont their homophobia and outdated and amoral views on homosexualy.

(In rponse to that ll out, Swchfoot’s Jon Foreman rpond to the axg of a queer “Christian” artist qutng his pro-LGBTQ+ creds, tellg her that LGBTQ+ people are always wele at his ncerts and that he supports gay rights and eedoms. As of today, an openly gay profsg Christian mician has topped the “Christian” mic charts on iTun for the first time history edgg out Lren Daigle who has nsistently topped the charts for months. Ld by homosexual activists hell-bent on stroyg Christiany and replacg God wh a rabow-themed Zs, Grace Baldridge, who go by the stage name Semler, h number one.

WHO'S GAY GOSPEL MIC?

This is unsurprisg as homosexuals have been phg a “gay Christian” movement wh every nomatn om rank hery-totg liberals to even the more nservative nomatns like the Southern Baptist Conventn and the Prybertian Church (PCA).

Such movements, cludg Revoice and Livg Out, have normalized homosexualy and served to remove the stigma om pew-sters claimg to be Christian yet are openly gay whether practicg or claimg to be celibate. In 2019, when Lren Daigle — who now holds the number two spot — was asked by flamg femist lbian, Ellen DeGener if homosexualy was a s, Daigle rpond that she “uldn’t know for sure. In Febary 2020, Charisma Magaze — which is popular for promotg the morn-day sons of Sceva — praised another openly gay worship lear who performed a rendn of Lren Daigle’s You Say durg an Amerin Idol performance.

And, 2019, Charisma did the same thg praisg another openly gay worship sger. Ltle did I know that Kenny had strayed far om his Fundamentalist Christian roots and was now a married gay man and a bivotnal pastor at Bluegrass Uned Church of Christ  Lexgton, Kentucky!

SOUTHERN GOSPEL SGER KENNY BISHOP IS NOW A GAY UNED CHURCH OF CHRIST PASTOR

Talk about fdg the unexpected — a liberal, gay Kenny Bishop. Instead, this Christian sger me out of the closet as gay. Back April, she attend an event supportg gay marriage.

Now she’s g theologil trag to change church views on gays and lbians:. Are you like her and believe that God lov and accepts everyone spe their sexual orientatn or is she missg val knowledge om the Holy Bible that still shows homosexualy, as well as her views of J’ love, is not necsarily wrong, but plete? In Jam Baldw’s “Go Tell It on the Mounta, ” the protagonist, thly veiled as himself, wrtl wh two cril qutns: What do mean to be a Black Amerin, and what do mean to be gay?

” Our nnectns and ntributns to the larger Black relig smos are secrated every time homophobic pronouncements go unchecked the holy plac of worship.

PROMENT CHRISTIAN SGER COM OUT OF THE CLOSET AS GAY! WHO IS IT?

For Charl Evans, “Gospel mic is tied to sufferg, black sufferg and certaly black gay sufferg. “Those nomatns are more open to gays whout announcg , bee of s lurgy and anizatnal stcture like Pentestal church, ” Patterson shared.

The Black gay male mega-stars are always forced to go back to the closet, publicly nouncg their sexual orientatn at the church’s annual nvotn. McClurk is a three-time Gospel Grammy wner, was a revered judge on BET’s “Sunday Bt, ” a realy TV-gospel sgg petn show, and the poster boy for Ain Amerin ex-gay mistri.

40 BT GAY SGERS & MICIANS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

At the 2009 nvotn, McClurk poed his ex-gay rhetoric stigatg former gospel dtry worker Tonéx (B.

35 BT GAY SGERS OF ALL TIME (LGBTQ+ SGERS)

Acrdg to McClurk, Black mal, like Tonéx, are gay bee of sexual moltatn, an absentee father, or they didn’t have strong male imag around them. McClurk attributed his homosexualy to beg raped twice as a child.

Confg, however, same-genr sexual vlence wh homosexualy, McClurk misterpreted the moltatn as the reason for his gay sexual orientatn. What mak Tonéx unique is not that he was once a gay gospel mic artist and pastor, but rather he told the tth about his sexualy. The guys were booted out bee they were gay.

However, today, gay mal, particular, ntue to fd ways of beg supported the COGIC.

‘I NEVER WANTED TO BE GAY’: CHRISTIAN MICIAN OUT, MOVG LETTER TO FANS

For example, “blaquebigaymisters” is a Yahoo gay misters’ group, boastg over 787 members sce July 2000. The “blaquebigaymisters” webse stat the followg:.

A report followg the 2009 Convotn asked, “Is COGIC gog to be silent while an anized culture of homosexual misters and bishops populate s pulps? ” COGIC nnot ny that the church gets s J dance on and Amen shouts to a black gay male queer gospel athetic every Sunday, and no one knows better than McClurk himself.

FOR GAY CHRISTIAN MICIANS, WORK BALANC FAH, ART, LOVE

“A day whout gay people the choir, there would be no church and some s pastors, too. Gays are tegral to the black church, and n’t ny , ” Patterson stated emphatilly.

Pastor McClurk’s homophobic past me back to hnt him 2010, however.

“I learned yterday—through the ‘Phoenix’ article regardg the Cy of Boston Gospel Ft—of the pth and breadth of Donnie McClurk’s views on the gay muny, ” Julie Burns wrote to me an email. Cleveland was fluential brgg gay men to the dtry. He was a fixture at gay parti ci he toured, and was an open secret.

MALAYSIA CUTS SHORT MIC FT AFTER BRISH BAND SLAMS ANTI-GAY LAWS, SGER KISS MALE BANDMATE

Homophobia and hypermasculy are rebed by many openly gay men gospel mic. “Women and gay men n allow the mic to take them where heterosexual men nnot go. However, that abily to experience an embodied spirualy is tnted by the church, school and homophobic peers.

GAY WORSHIP ARTIST TOPS LREN DAIGLE FOR NUMBER ONE CHRISTIAN MIC SPOT ON ITUN

The play highlights the tersectnal reali of beg Black, gay and spirual through the protagonist Phas Young.

Young is an amilly bright and milly gifted gay male scholarship stunt who leads the school choir. Phas’s antagonist, however, a legacy admissn stunt, gay-bash Phas every chance he uld.

The tensn between the two young mal illtrat how homophobia mangl and maims at such tenr and formative years. It was then listed on the Prceton Review’s top 20 homophobic schools.