Major evangelil figure out as gay | Christian Rearch Network

Contents:

• GAY DU, JONATHAN MERRT, PRAIS THEOLOGIAN FOR EMBRACG SODOMY
• JONATHAN MERRT ADMS GAY RELATNSHIP
• GAY ‘CHRISTIAN’ JOURNALIST, JONATHAN MERRT, LEAV EVANGELIL FAH
• MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY
• WHO’S GAY? EX-EVANGELIL ACTIVIST OUTS CHRISTIAN WRER JONATHAN MERRT
• CBN CALLS OUT SBC SEMARY PROFSOR FOR PROMOTG GAY SON’S SERMON
• JONATHAN MERR, GAY CHRISTIAN JOURNALIST, PROMOT “THEISTIC EVOLUTN”
• CELIBATE GAY CHRISTIAN LLS FOR NORMALIZG 'MTED IENDSHIPS'

GAY DU, JONATHAN MERRT, PRAIS THEOLOGIAN FOR EMBRACG SODOMY

Ed Stetzer, then Vice-Print of the SBC’s Lifeway Rearch, helped him ease back to the closet wh a powerful public relatns piece, and om then forward evangelil lears have been playg a game of Si Eye to the Queer Guy, actg like he’s not the gayt thg they’ve seen sce skny jeans. Peterson is certaly a lost e, mostly bee he’s hell, but ’s a shame that evangelil subversiv still ce Merrt as an expert on anythg but gayns.

“The Amerin evangelil church has been so mean towards homosexuals, exclud and discrimated agast, tnted and reviled, that I want nothg to do wh the arguments and prejudic that lurk jt beneath the surface of so much same-sex ncern. We would remd the rear that God stroyed Sodom and Gomorrah wh fire and brimstone a stunng display of righteo hatred towards homosexuals and homosexualy (y, both). While we mortals do not have the dive prerogative of hatred toward fellow man, we n certaly nounce the drippg effemacy and perverse homosexualy that Peterson exced and that Merrt exhibs daily on Twter.

We’ve all known for years that Jonathan Merrt, the son of the former Southern Baptist Conventn print, Jam Merrt, was a flamg homosexual. And though he was “outed” for havg a gay enunter wh another man at a Christian nference several years ago, he’s never actually openly and fully admted that he is gay.

JONATHAN MERRT ADMS GAY RELATNSHIP

He ntu, “So today, I’m raisg a glass to my full and plete self—a gay man, beloved by God, who has endured the worst the world uld throw at him and fought his way to health and wholens. Merrt, a culture wrer for major newspapers and magaz and thor of two books, told Ed Stetzer of LifeWay Rearch that for a “uple of weeks” 2009 he rrpond wh a gay blogger by e-mail and text msag, some of them “appropriate. On July 20, Merrt wrote an article for the Atlantic argug agast a boytt of Chick-fil-A over the pany’s support of nservative groups that oppose gay marriage.

Gay blogger Azariah Southworth, who was host of a show on Christian televisn before g out of the closet 2008, then alleged a July 23 blog that Merrt is gay. Merrt told Stetzer that he do not intify himself as gay “bee I believe there n be a difference between what one experienc and the life that God offers. In a chapter on homosexualy he wr: “Christians – myself clud – have allowed our lears to spew hatred at a muny of people who are no more sful and no ls prec than the most p.

Is any wonr that many church have no out-of-the-closet gays attendg but enough out-of-the-closet gluttons to fill up a dozen church b? A proment gay ‘Christian’ journalist and son of former a SBC print, Jonathan Merrt, announced his apostasy on Twter over the weekend.

GAY ‘CHRISTIAN’ JOURNALIST, JONATHAN MERRT, LEAV EVANGELIL FAH

We have wrten about Merrt many tim before, cludg the post Can Evangelils Stop Actg Like Jonathan Merr Isn’t Totally Gay? After beg ‘outed’ as a homosexual by another gay wrer wh whom he had a gay relatnship, Merrt was helped by Ed Stetzer to do damage ntrol Christiany Today. After Jen Hatmaker announced her support for sodomy and gay marriage, she joed the Epispal Church (Beth Moore ngratulated her for leavg and beg baptized by a famoly pro-gay bishop).

” On his 39th birthday Jonathan Merrt jumped out of the closet wh both feet after years of repeated nials that he is a homosexual.

MAJOR EVANGELIL FIGURE OUT AS GAY

In 2012 Azariah Southworth, a “gay evangelil, ” claimed he had a sexual enunter wh Jonathan and chid him publicly for not admtg to beg gay. Followg the news of Merrt’s homosexual adventure wh Southworth, Ken Silva of Apprisg Mistri penned a piece entled “Homosexualy and Jonathan Merrt” where he wrote:. Here at Apprisg Mistri I’ve told you that I believe a major evangelil figure will e out as homosexual “soon” servg to fully tonate this whole gay bate—currently rippg apart and dividg male nomatns—right wh the mastream of evangelilism self.

So today, I’m raisg a glass to my full and plete self—a gay man, beloved by God, who has endured the worst the world uld throw at him and fought his way to health and wholens. It is troublg to hear Jonathan Merrt jtify his cisn to live as a gay man (a chosen inty and activy) ma out of whole cloth that has nothg to do wh the Lord J’s view of homosexualy that is the Bible. He knows this but perhaps, like so many other lud homosexuals and heterosexuals who dulge sexual activy out of marriage, he has chosen to put the tth asi and embrace a liftyle of his own choosg.

Merrt now wants to believe that he is a gay man “beloved by God” who has learned to live thentilly his personal life. He n believe what he wants to, but what this tells me is that this profsg follower of J Christ, who brags that he’s “raisg a glass to my full and plete self—a gay man” is actually thumbg his nose at his Creator. As I stated above, J, who is the Son of God and the Send Person of the Try, nmned homosexualy and sexual relatns outsi of marriage.

WHO’S GAY? EX-EVANGELIL ACTIVIST OUTS CHRISTIAN WRER JONATHAN MERRT

Do not be ceived: neher the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexualy, nor thiev, nor the greedy, nor dnkards, nor revilers, nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God. To the sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, men who practice homosexualy, thiev, the greedy, dnkards, revilers and swdlers.

From the two pots, follows that adoptg a homosexual inty is also a s, sce such an inty entails at least a tac approval of homosexual sir (Si B), if not also of homosexual practic (Si A). Here is what Roys wrote:Former Southern Baptist Conventn Print Jam Merrt rigned last week as a visg profsor at Southeastern Baptist Theologil Semary over ntroversy sparked by Merrt’s cisn to share a sermon onle by his son who’s gay.

23 — The Conservative Baptist Network, a group of some 6, 000 members based Memphis, issu a statement wh the headle: “Promotg homosexual preachers is not lovg, biblil or Baptist. 24 — Jam Merrt sarstilly tweets that while no one endors sexual s, ’s cur how some people trash homosexualy while lookg the other way at former Print Donald Tmp’s adulteri.

CBN CALLS OUT SBC SEMARY PROFSOR FOR PROMOTG GAY SON’S SERMON

A quick glance at his Atlantic byl shows a mix of Southern Baptist criqu, news about gay relig personali, anti-Tmp material, skeptil tak on nservative theology and a lot of llg out of evangelils for their alleged hypocrisy on jt about everythg. Won him a hearg on major opn pag as well, as this Washgton Post say: “The ex-gay Christiany movement is makg a quiet eback.

JONATHAN MERR, GAY CHRISTIAN JOURNALIST, PROMOT “THEISTIC EVOLUTN”

For cryg out loud, we’ve been screamg posts entled such as Jonathan Merrt and Three Dollar Bills, wrg, “For the ol kids of Amerin evangelilism, [their] gay btie is a journalist named Jonathan Merrt. ” We wrote about and Merrt fendg tranny storytime at the lol library, we asked how many other closeted homosexuals are affectg the SBC, we’ve done podsts about Merrt’s queerns, we’ve wrten articl pleadg wh everybody to stop treatg him as though he’s not gay, such as Can Evangelil Lears Stop Treatg Jonathan Merrt Like He Isn’t Totally Gay (lerally, that was the tle), and we wrote about him beg a big fenr of Rsell Moore (’s not homosexual, but I’m still throwg as a different kd of gay anyway). After a night of sodomy-fed whisker nuzzlg, put together and planned like a Tr date, Merrt’s homosexualy ught up to him and a lover announced to the world Merrt was gay.

CELIBATE GAY CHRISTIAN LLS FOR NORMALIZG 'MTED IENDSHIPS'

The terview by Stetzer ma several claims signed to acplish s end; Merrt has stggled wh homosexualy, do not intify as a homosexual, is not a practicg homosexual, and n nfirm that homosexualy is a s.

We’ve fahfully chronicled Merrt’s support for the thgs he told Stetzer he rejected 2012 (see here and here for the lks that clu such gems as Gay Du, Jonathan Merrt, Prais Theologian for Embracg Sodomy). Like Jam Merrt, they sometim earn me vectiv, curs, and lls for repentance but not a sgle time has anyone ever said, “He’s not a practicg homosexual. But by 1966 another term veloped, Homtern, and was ed to refer to homosexuals who secretly embedd themselv to Amerin stutns to subvert them (we don’t know who ed the term, but has been creded to Cyril Connolly, WH Aun, and Jocelyn Brooke).

This is the observatn (prevly mentned) beg overlooked: Amerin evangelilism has been over-n wh Homterns who, like Merrt, have hidn or downplayed their homosexualy while embeddg themselv eply evangelil stutns. That movie was the first gay-affirmg msage I actually listened to and unrstood, and helped me unlearn s of bad theology and scriptural misterpretatns. It’s so eeg when you nnect wh another gay person before you’re “out” but when ’s over, you reenter that world of secrets and li.