Dear People, Meet 41-year old Miak Siew... An openly gay pastor Sgapore! Miak is not your typil pastor. And I'm not sayg that jt bee he's gay. Drsed sually the typil Sgaporean ensemble of a T-shirt and shorts the first time we met, Miak certaly don't f to tradnal notns of how a…
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- IN THIS SGAPOREAN CHURCH, YOU CAN BE HAPPY AND GAY
- IN SGAPORE, A CHRISTIAN GROUP AIMS TO HELP LGBTQ INDIVIDUALS ‘OVERE’ BEG GAY
IN THIS SGAPOREAN CHURCH, YOU CAN BE HAPPY AND GAY
Helmg are Siew, the first ordaed openly-gay mister the untry, and Pastor Ple Ong, who intifi as lbian. Photo: Ko Lyn Cheang“We are a Christian Church, first and foremost, not a gay Church, ” said Siew, who spent three years pletg a Masters Divy at the Pacific School of Relign Berkeley, California.
“The s of Sodom is not about homosexualy.
The Methodist Church Sgapore's Bishop Gordon Wong told VICE that the Methodist Church's posn is that “the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachgs, ” but said celibate romantic same-sex relatnships are "theoretilly" permissible. Intellectual, well-read, and “radil, ” said Pastor Siew, the foundg members were active Sgapore’s fledgg gay and lbian liberatn movement.
IN SGAPORE, A CHRISTIAN GROUP AIMS TO HELP LGBTQ INDIVIDUALS ‘OVERE’ BEG GAY
Photo: Ko Lyn CheangThe Church’s first parish, where they spent half a year 2004, was a pub on the fourth floor of an elegant red brick shophoe buildg that was also home to a proment gay bar known as Mox. Worshippers met beneath two silver dis balls hangg om the ceilg where they listened to the pastors preach acceptance of May 2018, while Ong was preparg for a Church event to memorate Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, she received a ll om the Sgaporean police who qutned her about the event.