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.
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HOW A GAY ST. LOUIS PASTOR TRIGGERED A WAR WH THE PRBYTERIAN CHURCH AMERI
Louis had no gay anizatn existg, sce the Gay Liberatn Front disappeared 1971. At the time, UFMCC had about sixty ngregatns wh a membership of about 15, 000 people twenty-eight stat, Canada, and 1974, when members of the Berea Congregatn began to object to the e of their facili by a church group that had a "special mistry to the gay muny, " MCCGSL began lookg for other facili. The acquisn of the hoe/soon-to-be-Church on Waterman, acrdg to the Post Dispatch, was believed to "mark the first time Missouri that any self-proclaimed homosexual group has owned s own facili.
By the early 1980's, MCC had served or was servg as a meetg place for Gay Alholics Anonymo, Washgton Universy's Concerned Gay Stunts, Parents of Gays, Men's Rap Group, the Gay Hotle, Midntent Life Servic Corp., Growg Amerin Youth, and Gay Overeaters nearly ten years at the Waterman lotn, 1984, the Church of about 130 active members, purchased a buildg Lafayette Square at 1120 Dolman. Louis) posed of avowed Christian homosexuals. 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. 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.