Hillsong Church foundg pastor Brian Hoton sists that his Sydney-based megachurch has ma "absolutely no change" regard to s "stance on homosexualy and gay marriage," after a cril blog post claimed that two engaged openly gay men were leadg Hillsong NYC's choir.
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- HILLSONG'S BRIAN HOTON ON GAY MARRIAGE: 'I BELIEVE THE WRGS OF PL ARE CLEAR ON THIS SUBJECT'
- SHAMEFUL HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY MEGACHURCH HILLSONG AS DISGRACED FOUNR RIGNS AMID MISNDUCT CLAIMS
- GAY, EX-HILLSONG LEAR SPEAKS ABOUT EXPERIENCE WH UNCLEAR POLICY
- MEGACHURCH PASTOR SIGNALS SHIFT TONE ON GAY MARRIAGE
- HILLSONG'S BRIAN HOTON 'CORRECTS' REPORT THAT 'OPENLY GAY COUPLE' LEADS NYC CHURCH CHOIR, INSISTS STANCE ON HOMOSEXUALY 'ABSOLUTELY' HAS NOT CHANGED
HILLSONG'S BRIAN HOTON ON GAY MARRIAGE: 'I BELIEVE THE WRGS OF PL ARE CLEAR ON THIS SUBJECT'
| (Photo: Hillsong Church)Hillsong Church pastor Brian Hoton has issued a statement specifyg his posn on marriage and homosexualy after a news outlet reported that he "won't take (a) public posn on LGBT issu. "The news report me after Hoton brought up the topics of homosexualy and same-sex marriage at a prs nference held on Thursday wh New York Cy media, on the ocsn of Hillsong Conference beg held at Madison Square Garn.
"Nowhere my answer did I dimish biblil tth or suggt that I or Hillsong Church supported gay marriage, " he adds. My personal view on the subject of homosexualy would le up wh most tradnally held Christian views. | (Photo: The Christian Post/Stt Liu)The qutn that rulted Hoton's remarks on homosexualy centered on how his church tri to rema relevant.
SHAMEFUL HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY MEGACHURCH HILLSONG AS DISGRACED FOUNR RIGNS AMID MISNDUCT CLAIMS
In his rponse, the Hillsong pastor offered homosexual marriage as an issue that is a challenge for some church. Now wh homosexual marriage legalized, and church for generatns, they hold a set of beliefs around what they believe the Word of God, the Bible says. Hoton, prompted by The New York Tim' qutn for clarifitn, went on to emphasize that, for him, qutns about his posn on homosexualy were "too important for to rce" down to a "y or no answer a media outlet.
" His remarks were siar to those prevly ma by Hillsong NYC pastor Carl Lentz, who has cled to take a public "yea or nay" posn on New York Tim published a report on Hoton's remark unr the headle "Megachurch Pastor Signals Shift Tone on Gay Marriage, " and not that the Hillsong Church pastor's "spokman said on Friday that the pastor personally agreed wh tradnal Christian teachg on sexualy. Read more about the prs nference here: Hillsong Pastor Brian Hoton Hammered Wh Qutns About Sex Abe, Homosexualy, Fanc at Start of NYC Conference. For many years, Hillsong evad the qutn of s stance on LGBT+ people, but 2013, Brian Hoton, which preachg the UK, addrsed what he lled “the gay suatn”.
The sermon seemed tentatively posive towards LGBT+ people, but 2015, Hoton published a blog post lled “Do I Love Gay People? He wrote that while he “lov and r” about all people, “I also live by my own nvictns, and hold to tradnal Christian thought on gay liftyl and gay marriage.
GAY, EX-HILLSONG LEAR SPEAKS ABOUT EXPERIENCE WH UNCLEAR POLICY
“The wrgs of the apostle Pl scripture on the subject of homosexualy are also clear… Hillsong Church wel ALL people but do not affirm all liftyl.
We are a gay welg church but we are not a church that affirms a gay liftyle. ”, published the Journal of Femist Studi Relign, Marn Maddox pats a picture of Hillsong as a place where sex and genr are strictly bary, and scrib the church as “an tensely homophobic environment”. Gay former pastor Anthony Venn-Brown, who mistered at Hills Christian Life Centre, now works wh LGBT+ people om Evangelil backgrounds and found Ambassadors and Bridge Builrs Internatnal (ABBI), which works wh church to bee LGBT-affirmg.
MEGACHURCH PASTOR SIGNALS SHIFT TONE ON GAY MARRIAGE
In a rearch paper on Hillsong and the “ex-gay” movement, Venn-Brown discs what seems to be the first rerd of anti-LGBT+ sentiment surroundg Hillsong.
HILLSONG'S BRIAN HOTON 'CORRECTS' REPORT THAT 'OPENLY GAY COUPLE' LEADS NYC CHURCH CHOIR, INSISTS STANCE ON HOMOSEXUALY 'ABSOLUTELY' HAS NOT CHANGED
In 1986, Sy Rogers, “former homosexual” and then print of the ex-gay anisatn Exod, was ved to preach at Frank Hoton’s Christian Life Centre. In the months afterwards, an ex-gay mistry was formed at Christian Life Centre lled Ex. But one former pastor is reported to have told Venn-Brown this wasn’t bee they didn’t believe nversn, but allegedly bee they were worried that gatherg too many ex-gays together would rult an avalanche of hook-ups.
“I was enuraged to exercise to enhance my masculy, we prayed the mons off my back and I was sent to an outsi mister for unsellg who had a specialisatn homosexualy and more earth shattergly for me child sex offenrs. In the years that followed, multiple LGBT+ former Hillsong members spoke out about beg referred to nversn unsellors and ex-gay programm, and some of the programm claimed to have good relatnships wh Hillsong.