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While still far from the mainstream and the overwhelming majority of self-described evangelicals are still opposed to gay marriage, there are a growing list of pastors who describe themselves as evangelical and yet support same sex couples. We in the Church should actively support such families.

Asked if she would attend a gay friend's wedding she said it was an easy answer: 'I would attend that wedding with gladness, and I would drink champagne. In an interview with Religion News Service she said: 'From a spiritual perspective, since gay marriage is legal in all 50 states, our communities have plenty of gay couples who, just like the rest of us, need marriage support and parenting help and Christian community.

One of the relatively few prominent female voices on the evangelical scene, Hatmaker received a fierce backlash when she said she thought God saw monogamous gay relationships as holy. The famous evangelist and pastor announced his change of position in a statement last June.

He went on to give a wholesale criticism of traditional evangelicalism and in particular its own subculture: 'I think we are witnessing the death of a particular subculture that doesn't work.

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He served as president of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) from until November Haggard made national headlines in November. I want a deeper commitment to marriage that is more and more inclusive, and that's where I think the country is going.

An outspoken critic of the Religious Right and president of the Sojourners magazine, Jim Wallis reversed his stance on gay marriage in an interview with the Huffington Post in Marriage needs some strengthening. We have to do better. Furthermore, we should be doing all we can to reach, comfort and include all those precious children of God who have been wrongly led to believe that they are mistakes or just not good enough for God, simply because they are not straight.

I am for love, whether it's a man and woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm preacher wherever they are. Then Someone Asked Me A Question That Turned My Life Upside Down. LGBTQ Gay by the Grace of God: A Black Pastor’s Journey Openly gay minister Bishop Joseph Tolton is at the forefront of African and Black American faith leaders bringing progress to their communities.

Let's start with marriage, and then I think we have to talk about, now, how to include same-sex couples in that deeper understanding of marriage. I am for fidelity. Haggard is the barry is gay and former pastor of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and is a founder of the Association of Life-Giving Churches.

I think there is a very narrow, politically intertwined, culturally ghettoised, Evangelical subculture that was told "we're gonna change the thing" and they haven't And we have supported policies and ways of viewing the preacher that are actually destructive.

They are either going to find those resources in the church or they are not. They are adopted into the same family as the rest of us, and the church hasn't treated the LGBT community like family. In a debate at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral inthe author and pastor Rob Bell, already discredited by many evangelicals for his book Love Winsgave a blanket endorsement of gay marriage.

Being anti-same sex marriage and evangelicalism used to be synonymous, so much so that when Steve Chalke announced he backed the change in law his church Oasis was kicked out of the Evangelical Alliance. Our friendships with these couples have helped me understand how important it is for the exclusion and disapproval of their unions by the Christian community to end.

Gay want the very best for my gay friends. If you said someone was evangelical you knew pretty much what you were getting — inerrancy of the Bible, importance of preaching, a focus on evangelism, warnings of hell and most of all — opposition to gay marriage.

Ted Arthur Haggard (/ ˈhæɡərd /; gay June 27, ) is an American former Methodist pastor. I want love and happiness and faithfulness and commitment and community.