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:
- THE GAY PREACHER'S WIFE
- A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
- GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
- HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
- CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
- FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
THE GAY PREACHER'S WIFE
The Gay Preacher's Wife by Lydia Meredh - The eply personal memoir of Lydia Meredh, a woman who spent almost thirty years married to a preacher—only to... * gay pastor book *
The Gay Preacher’s Wife INTRODUCTION There’s a Leak This Old Buildg There’s a leak this old buildg and my soul... His church was the only Ain-Amerin church Atlanta to wele openly gay members. And he had jt e out as gay himself.
The march was agast gay marriage. In the Atlanta gay muny, this was a travty bee homosexual mors had long been swirlg about Long. The march agast gay marriage got a lot of media attentn.
However, there was also an Atlanta gay magaze that threatened to “out” Long if he didn’t stop his hypocril, bigoted behavr. When I saw Long and Bernice Kg on televisn, holdg those torch and speakg out agast the ills of homosexualy, I thought to myself, We’re trouble here.
A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
Unfundamentalist Christians founr John Shore recently shared a letter om a gay Christian who is stgglg wh his sexualy and fah. Among the many enuragg ments on that post was one om a gay pastor who betifully explaed his unrstandg of the Bible, Christiany, and sexualy. * gay pastor book *
We weren’t trouble bee Long or Kg might both be gay and were leadg a march agast gays.
Fast-forward and the Eddie Long sndal hs, and he settl out of urt wh those young boys, and Bernice Kg leav his church and all of a sudn chang her stance on gays and gay marriage. What did J really say about homosexualy? What was J’ msage about gays?
GEIA MEGACHURCH PASTOR REVEALS HE'S GAY
Books shelved as lgbt-christian: God and the Gay Christian: The Biblil Case Support of Same-Sex Relatnships by Matthew V, Torn: Rcug the G... * gay pastor book *
I prayed my entire young life for God to send me a hband—God always answers my prayers—why did I end up marryg a gay man? My middle son is gay and HIV posive: how the world did this happen—three sons, same cubator, same environment, nceived by the same parents, yet two sons are heterosexual and one son is homosexual—is this blogil, geic, what?
HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
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 pastor book *
Here’s what I found: J never mentns homosexualy. ” Lifted om polilly and enomilly charged terpretatns of the biblil texts are the notns that God nmns homosexuals to hell; God nmns people of lor to a life of slavery/servu; and God nmns women to certa life rol and ndns.
CALIFORNIA SCHOOL BOARD ADOPTS SOCIAL STUDI TEXTBOOKS THAT CLU GAY RIGHTS AFTER WARNGS OM ERNOR
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 pastor book *
Unfundamentalist Christians founr John Shore recently shared a letter om a gay Christian who is stgglg wh his sexualy and fah. Among the many enuragg ments on that post was one om a gay pastor who betifully explaed his unrstandg of the Bible, Christiany, and pastor gracly agreed to let me share his ment as blog post here. Pl was not sayg that idolatry turns people gay; rather, he was sayg that idolatry led to participatn shameful acts of lt.
As I said before, Romans 1 is not about gay Christian boys or girls, but about idolaters wh darkened unrstandg. Another passage often quoted agast is 1 Corthians 6:9, wrongly translated as “homosexuals. But Genis 19 no more nmns all homosexualy than Judg 19 nmns all heterosexualy.
FIVE EVANGELIL PASTORS WHO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
A Southern California school board on Friday adopted a social studi curriculum that clus gay rights that was approved by parents and teachers after ially rejectg . * gay pastor book *
If I ever meet a fe gay man who is Spirual and lovg and mutually attractive, and if I felt the Lord leadg me to him and him to me, I would feel ee to be his mate. Joshua Harris’ book “I Kissed Datg Goodbye, ” which railed agast sex before marriage and homosexualy, sold over 1 ln pi and beme a fixture Christian youth groups after g out 22 years ago. The book also featured a passage which Harris scribed beg “checked out” by three gay men.
The Temecula Valley school board adopted a social studi curriculum that clus gay rights. * gay pastor book *
2, 2010— -- The pastor of a Geia 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. I want to tell you that is not, " Jim Swilley said a vio shot the nonnomatnal megachuch Swilley found 25 years Swilley said g out was a cisn he's stggled wh sce childhood, he ma the announcement last month not for personal reasons -- he said he hop to save 52-year-old founr of Church the Now Conyers, Ga., said he's g out to help stem the recent ti of gay suicis Ameri and won't be swayed by some hateful msag that have been wrten about him onle.
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * gay pastor book *
""Hearg about the kids who are mtg suici, the reactn as a gay adult is, 'I wish I uld have jt talked to them for 15 mut or five mut and told them gets better, '" Savage said. "Officials, Celebri Jo 'It Gets Better'Three weeks later, a cy uncil meetg Fort Worth, Texas, gay cy uncilman Joel Burns was moved to share his own emotnal story about how close he me to killg himself at age 13. Oliver Thomas, a retired Baptist mister, has wrten, “Amerin church mt reject leralism and adm we got wrong on gay people.