David Gura speaks wh Rev. Kimberly Stt about last week's meetg of the Uned Methodist Church's Council of Bishops and s impedg vote on whether to orda gay pastors.
Contents:
- FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER TO BE ORDAED BY PRBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) TOMORROW
- HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
- GAY REVEREND VASTATED AFTER PRI FLAG SET ON FIRE SPECTED HATE CRIME
- GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
- BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
- THE REBEL PRIT: ‘GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH ARE NOT GOG TO GO AWAY’
FIRST OPENLY GAY MISTER TO BE ORDAED BY PRBYTERIAN CHURCH (USA) TOMORROW
The Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force applds the historic ordatn of Stt Anrson set for tomorrow Madison, Wis. He will bee the first * gay reverend *
The Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force applds the historic ordatn of Stt Anrson set for tomorrow Madison, Wis. He will bee the first openly gay mister ordaed by the Prbyterian Church (USA) sce the nomatn amend s nstutn this year to elimate official barriers to the ordatn of people based on their sexual orientatn.
“So much of my work wh the Shower of Stol Project volv holdg my hands every day symbols of loss — loss of mistry, loss of votn, loss of llg, ” says David Lohman, fah work ordator at the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force.
HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
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But before leavg the church, she wanted to do somethg symbolic to show that she was only one of untls lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) people servg the church silence bee the st of livg thentic, open liv was too high. Kimberly Stt about last week's meetg of the Uned Methodist Church's Council of Bishops and s impedg vote on whether to orda gay pastors. The Uned Methodist nomatn has over 6 ln members the Uned Stat, and they're divid over the qutn of ordag gay misters.
She left the church for seven years and me back to be s first Black, female, openly gay pastor, and she jos now om Phoenix.
KIMBERLY SCOTT: Thank you, So this bate over ordag gay clergy has been gog on for a while, sce the late '60s. And then the other part was always send-gusg myself - whether or not I was supposed to be open about my sexual orientatn, whether or not I was supposed to play the game of don't ask, don't Jt so that I'm clear, is the church's official stance on homosexualy today ambiguo or is pretty clearly fed and you'd like to see changed? It clearly stat that you nnot be an openly-practicg homosexual and be ordaed the Uned Methodist Church.
GAY REVEREND VASTATED AFTER PRI FLAG SET ON FIRE SPECTED HATE CRIME
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. * gay reverend *
It also stat that although all human begs are of sacred worth, homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg.
S., church have gone beyond what the Book of Disciple says to make the church open and accsible to gay and lbian clergy like Do you know other pastors who aren't as open as you or haven't been able to be as open as you - have ma this choice to keep this important si of their liv quiet or secret om their ngregatns? The bate around homosexualy is not somethg that most Ain and third-world untri are - really re about.
Greg Johnson scrib himself as a “gay atheist teenager” who fell for J — and found himself at the center of evangelil Christiany’s ternal battl over nearly 20 years, Johnson has pastored Memorial Prbyterian Church St. He says he’s been gay and celibate the entire time.
GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
Police are vtigatg after a bigot burned a LGBT+ Pri flag flyg om midtown Sacramento church, led by a gay reverend. * gay reverend *
When he me out to his church, he said he received a standg ovatn and shouts of “We love you, Greg” om sce Johnson went public wh his orientatn Christiany Today, pastors his nomatn, the Prbyterian Church Ameri, have tried to banish clergy who intify as gay, even if they m to celibacy.
BLACKS, GAYS AND THE CHURCH: A COMPLEX RELATNSHIP
Recently, I spoke wh a Christian who ranted about the mere prence of gay people on televisn nstutg Satan seekg to latch onto vulnerable youth. I met Dan 2019 when he offered his… * gay reverend *
“I spent a lot of years nvcg myself that I was a straight man wh a disease lled homosexualy that uld be cured, ” Johnson said on Wednday’s St. ”The ln Johnson is referrg to are people who participated the so-lled “ex-gay movement, ” which centered on the theory that one n change sexual orientatn. “I really believe that J lov gay people, and I want evangelil church to learn to say that and believe that, ” he said.
THE REBEL PRIT: ‘GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH ARE NOT GOG TO GO AWAY’
The pastor of an Atlanta megachurch wh thoands of followers, who was twice married and is a father of four, is speakg out about his recent cisn to publicly clare he is gay. * gay reverend *
Gay pastor Greg Johnson is fightg for the future of the PCA.
While many black pastors nmn homosexualy om the pulp, the choir lofts behd them are often filled wh gay sgers and micians. The fact that gays and lbians often hold learship posn the church is the worst kept secret black Ameri. * gay reverend *
Last year, Johnson released a book lled “Still Time To Care: What We Can Learn om the Church’s Failed Attempt to Cure Homosexualy, ” which scrib the fall of the ex-gay movement. ”When the PCA nomatn voted last year on whether to keep gay people om beg clergy members, one observer wrote that the actn was signed to “prevent another Greg Johnson. ”More than 60% of regnal church bodi voted favor of barrg people who intify as gay om beg clergy, even if they do not engage sexual behavr.
“My nstant fear is that somebody's gog to tell their kid, ‘Why n't you be one of the good gays like Greg Johnson? ”Johnson said there’s a huge need wh the evangelil church to tra parents and pastors to love gay youth whout tryg to ntrol them.
“If you're gog to be a nomatn that says you n't have gay marriage, then you've got to provi alternate forms of muny, ” Johnson said. Gay Sacramento reverend Matthew Woodward found the burned LGBT+ Pri flag outsi his church.
Wh an timated 2.3 ln members, the Epispal Church is open and welg of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny. * gay reverend *
Police are vtigatg after someone burned an LGBT+ Pri flag flyg om church led by a gay reverend. Speakg to The Sacramento Bee, Woodward, who is openly gay, add: “It ma me sad this morng to see that somebody wanted to take down what we thk was a sign of love and burn .
Gay God’s Hoe: an Interview wh a Gay ReverendRecently, I spoke wh a Christian who ranted about the mere prence of gay people on televisn nstutg Satan seekg to latch onto vulnerable many others, this person would fd Reverend Dan Lewis to be que the enigma. To this day, I n’t remember how me up, but at some pot, he mentned beg gay: I was shocked by this bee I was homophobic or anythg…well, at least not anymore. I’ll adm when I was younger, I allowed a Christian inty to jtify hatred of homosexualy.
Then a straightforward qutn helped change that, which I’ll circle back to after tailg more of Dan’s grew up a time (1970’s) and a place (ral Montana) that wasn’t particularly fond of Lewis as an adolcent“We didn’t have out gay people and if there were, no one would be surprised or feel sorry if they were found ad by the river.