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Title: Motivated by gay teen suicides, megachurch leader comes out
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upsho ... -leader-comes-out-as-a-gay-man
Published: Nov 2, 2010
Author: Brett Michael Dykes
Post Date: 2010-11-02 14:48:45 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Comments: 7
The recent headlines about gay teen suicides have sparked something rather remarkable: A Georgia megachurch pastor recently outed himself to his congregation. Jim Swilley -- the pastor of the Church in the Now in Conyers, Ga. -- made the shocking revelation that he is gay two weeks ago. But the news only became more widely known when an Atlanta news station, WSB-TV, sat down for an interview with him. Swilley recently divorced the church's onetime associate pastor, Debye, but he had informed her in the early days of their 21-year relationship that he was gay, he told WSB-TV. Nevertheless, he says, they remained a couple, keeping the secret to themselves. But as Swilley explained in the interview, Debye recently convinced him that it was time for him to stop living a lie--so they divorced and he shared his secret with their four children. When he began hearing about gay teens committing suicide, he felt that it was time to do likewise with his flock, he said. "As a father, think about your 16-, 17-year-old killing themselves. I thought somebody needed to say something," he told WSB-TV. "You know, I know all the hateful stuff that's being written about me online -- whatever. To think about saving a teenager, yeah, I'll risk my reputation for that." You can watch the video of the WSB-TV interview below: Unlike many religious leaders who've been involuntarily outed as gay men, Swilley has never condemned homosexual lifestyles from the pulpit. And while Swilley says some religious leaders have attacked him for acknowledging his gay identity, other commentators have hailed Swilley as a "Christian hero." As for his own view, Swilley says that if his revelation leads to a mass exodus out of his church, so be it; he'll just pick up the pieces and start over somewhere else.
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Call me childish but I find a guy name Dykes writing an article about a queer preacher to be extremely funny.
I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. - Benjamin Franklin
Exhibit 1,220,000 why the Church in America is powerless and toothless.
"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡
The devil infiltrates churches with such people to help destroy people's faith in God. He is not a minister of Christ, he is a minister of Satan.
God is always good!
"God told me my lust for meth and man ass was okay."
"If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable." - Thomas Jefferson
I agree. Christian preachers who are gay on the side are not the kind of people who should be leading churches. if we have such people leading churches, then we have tremendous problems.
Psalms 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
They should follow the commands of their kike god by gathering together and killing him. If they had any balls, that is exactly what they would do. But they have no balls. For a gawd that "said" that he doesn't change, well, he changed. What was an abomination at one time is not so abominable anymore. Now they just bitch and moan and say it's all Satan's fault. Pussies. .
Brett Michael Dykes
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Jim Swilley
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