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Title: Christian music star Jennifer Knapp comes back and comes out
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URL Source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Mus ... er.knapp.gay/index.html?hpt=C2
Published: Apr 16, 2010
Author: Lisa Respers France
Post Date: 2010-04-16 11:30:08 by freepatriot32
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Keywords: Christian, music star, Jennifer Knapp, comes out
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Rumors were rampant when Christian music artist Jennifer Knapp walked away from a successful career seven years ago. After selling about a million records and winning at Christian music's prestigious Dove Awards in 1999, the Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter simply vanished in 2003 -- leaving fans wondering where she had gone. There were countless theories as to why Knapp checked out, including the possibility of illness. But the one that raised the most ruckus among her die-hard fans was the one which proved to be true: Jennifer Knapp is gay. This week Knapp burst back onto the music scene with news of a comeback and a coming out. Her new album will be released in May, and she has revealed that she has been in a same-sex relationship for the past eight years. The revelation rocked the Christian music scene, where Knapp was a darling of fans and critics before her self-imposed exile. The intensely private singer said she's not at all surprised by the shock waves. "I'm aware that the evangelical community has problems with divorce and many other facets of their artists, let alone homosexuality," Knapp said. "I really felt a strong obligation to be able to address that because for many people, it was really clear that they wouldn't participate in buying a record because it was against their beliefs." "For many people who buy Christian music or have been familiar with me and my writings as a person of faith, I felt like it was the honest thing to do," she added. "The last thing I wanted to do was to have someone go out and buy a record and feel like they had been hoodwinked." Knapp is not the first artist to find fame in the genre before revealing their sexuality. In 2008, Christian singer/songwriter Ray Boltz came out as a gay man after a 20-year career in the industry. In 2009, gospel star Tonex went public with his homosexuality as a guest on "The Lexi Show," a popular program on the Christian channel The Word Network. Lexi, who is also a gospel music artist, said that while many in the Christian music industry are aware of who is gay, "we don't talk about it, because that's the unspoken rule." Lexi said she doubts most fans will ever fully embrace an openly gay artist, but she points to other artists who have been able to straddle the line between secular music and songs of faith. "I think some Christians will totally avoid [Knapp] and say that she is the devil and all that, but there are some that are more open who will embrace her new material," Lexi said. "Then she will find a new audience." Mark Moring, senior associate editor for Christianity Today, was one of the first to write about Knapp's revelation and said it has been extremely polarizing among his publication's audience. People have vacillated between anger that Christianity Today would even write the story and praise for Knapp's honesty, he said. "There are people who will always love Jennifer Knapp, no matter what decisions she may make," Moring said. "I think the word that I've read the most often [among those commenting on the Christianity Today web site] is 'sad' as in 'I'm sad that she has made this choice, but I still love her music.' I think that has been a recurrent theme." Rev. DL Foster is the founder of the Gay Christian Movement Watch Web site and said he believes as society has become more accepting of homosexuality, Knapp and other artists are finding it easier to go public. "For a person to try and combine [being gay and being a Christian music artist] is not biblically correct, and I would hope that the church would reject such music because it does not represent us," he said. "To me, it doesn't matter if you are openly gay or closeted gay, sin is still sin." Knapp is very clear that she is not marketing herself as a Christian artist, a term with which she said she has never been comfortable. She's no longer on a Christian-based record label, and her new album of folksy rock songs is described as being about "inner-conflicts, spirituality and life lessons." Knapp quit the industry and moved to Australia, she said, because she was simply exhausted by all the performing and unprepared for the challenges being a music star brought her way. She said she began writing music again in earnest two years ago and the music, as well as the decision to go public with her sexuality, all happened "organically." Knapp said she is no longer afraid of her gifts as a musician and now realizes that who she is as a private person can remain intact even as she shares herself with the world through her music. "I was tired of not writing because I was afraid of what other people were going to think of me," she said. "So for me it was a really healing process." Knapp said she realizes that some fans will now view her earlier work with lyrics about inner turmoil as evidence of the struggle between her beliefs and her sexuality. But she says she has always struggled as a person of faith to be the person she wants to be, and her sexuality was only a part of that, she said. God has always known she would walk this path, Knapp said. "I would rather be judged before God as being an honest human being," she said. "If I am in any way unpleasing in his sight, I can only hope and pray that he gives me the opportunity to find who I am supposed to be." Perhaps the most telling clue to where Jennifer Knapp finds herself in life after so many years is contained in the title of her new album. It's called "Letting Go."
Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Jennifer Knapp shocked the Christian music industry and fans by announcing she's gay.
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#1. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
So does God last check. Not that I'm God, but I'm pretty sure that homosexuality is right up there as a "thou better the hell not" as far as He is concerned. "For many people who buy Christian music or have been familiar with me and my writings as a person of faith, I felt like it was the honest thing to do," she added. "The last thing I wanted to do was to have someone go out and buy a record and feel like they had been hoodwinked." Credit her for this at least, that's an admirable thing to do, at least she's up front and not out to defraud people apparently. Good on her, for that.
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
Yes, but some focus on homosexuality like a laser. It's as if there are no other sins out there. Like torture, theft, and murder, for example. "Christians" have no problem with those sins. THey practice them at every opportunity, either by supporting it or doing it themselves. They mostly just support it. They don't want to get their grubby little hands dirty. Fucking hypocrites. .
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files Live free or That is just TOO funny! LOL! I believe I hear heads exploding in outrage all across the country! LOL.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 Nothing in the State, everything outside the State, everything against the State - Jan Lester, Escape From Leviathan "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone. - Zhuangzi
Since I worship Odin! Odin! Odin! I have never heard of her.
“No amount of reason, evidence, logic or rational argument will ever convince the true believer otherwise.”
That's why I note that *GOD* would have a big problem with it. How human beings act and react is something entirely different most of the times. I'm simply stating that if she thinks that she's a Christian at this point, while actively participating in that choice, then she's fooling herself. Not because of what man on earth says, but because it's pretty clearly defined in the Bible. I don't have an opinion on if she's a good or bad person. As a libertarian I adhere to a live and let live credo. Just noting that Christian teaching and her choice are at utter complete odds. On the plus side, she is being up front about it and not trying to defraud anybody now, so that's more in the case of honesty than you can say about most folks these days. Plus, she's cute. Not that it matters now, heh. Most evangelical types are a scary lot for certain. How they, as you say, laser focus on sex like it was the worst of sins when they otherwise let things like war go uncommented on (or even supported) is beyond me.
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
You worship Odin? I'm partial to Odie myself.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 Nothing in the State, everything outside the State, everything against the State - Jan Lester, Escape From Leviathan "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone. - Zhuangzi
WWGPD? - (What Would General Pinochet Do?)
WWGPD? - (What Would General Pinochet Do?)
What's the one eyed bastard ever done for me? Hell I can't even get a few of the drops of mead off his beard to compose decent poetry! I wish the ancient celtic pantheon were better understood, there's so little record of it left (though we know it existed and know a few small tidbits about it). I'd feel like a traitor, given a choice, in selecting the Nordic gods when I have a whole group of celtic gods ready for worship.
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
Acfually I worship mead, which I drink from the skull of my worst enemy. I just use Odin as an excuse in the coppers catch me. I can claim insanity and get out in a couple of years.
“No amount of reason, evidence, logic or rational argument will ever convince the true believer otherwise.”
That makes sense. Odie is much too easy going to be able to use him in that way.
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 Nothing in the State, everything outside the State, everything against the State - Jan Lester, Escape From Leviathan "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone. - Zhuangzi
That kind of blasphemy will not get you a seat in the Longboats
WWGPD? - (What Would General Pinochet Do?)
Odie will save me! That is unless that damned Garfield tricks him. Now you want to talk about evil!
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 Nothing in the State, everything outside the State, everything against the State - Jan Lester, Escape From Leviathan "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone. - Zhuangzi
Is it a choice to BE something, or to DO something? Re: homosexuality, I don't know what to think morally of such people. I'm not qualified to judge, and that's just as well as far as I'm concerned.
If somebody "just is" he/she still doesn't have to practice. I could give two shits, to be honest. The point was, the Bible fully condemns homosexuality, no questions, no ambiguity. To actively practice it as a lifestyle/choice seems to me to disqualify one from claiming Christianity. How those who "ARE" but don't practice stand, I have no idea, but I'm pretty sure that those who "ARE" and who "ARE PRACTICING", are in the tank if the Bible is to be taken as truth.
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
If she is sincere in that--hoping and praying that God will give her the opportunity to find out who she is supposed to be--I believe he will (and I hope she is sincere). But it may come at great emotional cost to her. God has numerous ways of getting people's attention.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. I wasn't disagreeing with you. I was just adding my .02 to what you said. We're on the same page here. I'm simply stating that if she thinks that she's a Christian at this point, while actively participating in that choice, then she's fooling herself. Not because of what man on earth says, but because it's pretty clearly defined in the Bible. I think it's safe to say that we all have problems. The difference is, I don't mind admitting it, and I bet you don't mind it either. "christians" hardly ever do. Their lives are so squared away that they feel free to butt into others business. .
Click for Privacy and Preparedness files Live free or Looking like she does, I am sure she hoodwinked many guys. She might as well get out of Christian music now, she doesn't have a future in it.
God is always good!
Ah cool, I misunderstood, my mistake. :)
MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. Pretty sure I know how to get out of my neighborhood.
I worship that wang, dang, sweet poontang.
_________________________________________________________________________ So do I. For that matter, so does Jennifer Knapp! LOL! In her defense though, if I were a women I'd be a lesbian too!
"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Director, CIA 1973–1976 Nothing in the State, everything outside the State, everything against the State - Jan Lester, Escape From Leviathan "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that justifies it." - Frederic Bastiat Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone. - Zhuangzi
Here's a "hot" Viking girl for you ODIN approves
WWGPD? - (What Would General Pinochet Do?)
I am a lesbian trapped inside a man's body. Oh the humanity! >(;^{]
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Where did you get that picture from, please?
Are you in love? I got it off the net, I put the words "viking girl" in google images and she came right up. http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1308/1251802085_72f1ebafa9.jpg
WWGPD? - (What Would General Pinochet Do?)
She'd be so "Thor" when I got done with her, she'd walk funny for a week...
She'd be rowing in circles ;)
WWGPD? - (What Would General Pinochet Do?)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "You've got to put right and wrong above legal and illegal. Because when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty; and it is not rebellion at all, it is submission to the higher law that our government is in rebellion to. We're not the rebels, they're the rebels."
No, just impressed. And thank you for the link. I was hoping for some info. I was wondering what theme event (place, date, event name) that picture was taken from. But, oh well.
Oh, okay, I see now. She wasn't just in the closet, she was diesel dyke in the closet!
"I'm aware that the evangelical community has problems with divorce and many other facets of their artists, let alone homosexuality," Knapp said. "I really felt a strong obligation to be able to address that because for many people, it was really clear that they wouldn't participate in buying a record because it was against their beliefs."
#2. To: SonOfLiberty, all (#1)
Not that I'm God, but I'm pretty sure that homosexuality is right up there as a "thou better the hell not" as far as He is concerned.
COONTACT! die kill ~~ Me
#3. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
#4. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
#5. To: PSUSA (#2)
#6. To: Turtle (#4)
Since I worship Odin! Odin! Odin! I have never heard of her.
#7. To: Turtle (#4)
Since I worship Odin! Odin! Odin! I have never heard of her.
#8. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#6)
I'm partial to Odie myself.
#9. To: Turtle (#4)
#10. To: F.A. Hayek Fan, Flintlock (#6)
#11. To: Turtle (#10)
Acfually I worship mead, which I drink from the skull of my worst enemy. I just use Odin as an excuse in the coppers catch me. I can claim insanity and get out in a couple of years.
#12. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#11)
Odie
#13. To: Flintlock (#12)
(Edited)
That kind of blasphemy will not get you a seat in the Longboats
#14. To: SonOfLiberty (#5)
Just noting that Christian teaching and her choice are at utter complete odds.
#15. To: Pinguinite (#14)
#16. To: freepatriot32, SonOfLiberty (#0)
"I would rather be judged before God as being an honest human being," she said. "If I am in any way unpleasing in his sight, I can only hope and pray that he gives me the opportunity to find who I am supposed to be."
Lord Acton
#17. To: SonOfLiberty (#5)
COONTACT! die kill ~~ Me
#18. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
"The last thing I wanted to do was to have someone go out and buy a record and feel like they had been hoodwinked."
#19. To: PSUSA (#17)
I wasn't disagreeing with you. I was just adding my .02 to what you said. We're on the same page here.
#20. To: F.A. Hayek Fan, Flintlock, Turtle, SonOfLiberty (#6)
Obama is the miscegenated bastard child of a white communist whore. True story.
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#21. To: X-15 (#20)
I worship that wang, dang, sweet poontang.
#22. To: X-15 (#20)
I worship that wang, dang, sweet poontang.
#23. To: F.A. Hayek Fan (#21)
In her defense though, if I were a women I'd be a lesbian too!
Lord Acton
#24. To: Flintlock (#22)
#25. To: PaulCJ (#24)
Where did you get that picture from, please?
#26. To: Flintlock (#22)
#27. To: Samuel Gray (#26)
(Edited)
She'd be so "Thor" when I got done with her, she'd walk funny for a week...
#28. To: SonOfLiberty (#1)
#29. To: Flintlock (#25)
Are you in love?
#30. To: freepatriot32 (#0)
This is her now....
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