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08 Jan

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MTO EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Most Of The Boys MOLESTED By The Penn State Coach . . . WERE BLACK!!! (He Had A FETISH For Black Boys)

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12 Nov

November 11, 2011: By now you’ve heard that former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with sexually abusing eight young boys over more than a decade and former Penn State athletic director Tim Curley and former finance official Gary Schultz, were charged with failing to report an incident.

Penn State University appears to be involved in a SYSTEMATIC coverup of the incident, which has many wondering WHY they would do such a thing. Why would a university TURN ITS BACK on so many young boys who were being MOLESTED by that MONSTER.

Well MediaTakeOut.com spoke with a woman claiming to be a MOTHER of a boy allegedly molested by Sandusky, and her son was AFRICAN AMERICAN.

The mother, who asked for anonymity, told MediaTakeOut.com that her son and many other young boys claiming to be MOLESTED all looked similar. “They were Black about 10-12, and had a tall slim muscular build.” The mother went on, “How could no one have noticed, he’s around all these boys that look the same . . . This is disgraceful.”

The mom claims that she has gone to the POLICE and will seek criminal and civil actions against EVERYONE involved. Including the school. Good for her, we hope they BANKRUPT Penn State.

By the way, for all you people thinking that MAYBE Sandusky didn’t do it. Peep the timeline of events, courtesy of ESPN, and tell us whether you think there is THE SLIGHTEST CHANCE that he’s innocent!!!

1969 Jerry Sandusky starts his coaching career at Penn State University as a defensive line coach.

1977 Jerry Sandusky founds The Second Mile. It begins as a group foster home dedicated to helping troubled boys and grows to become a charity dedicated to helping children with absent or dysfunctional families.

January 1983 Associated Press voters select Penn State as college football’s national champion for the 1982 season.

January 1987 Associated Press voters select Penn State as college football’s national champion for the 1986 season.

1994 Boy known as Victim 7 in the report meets Sandusky through The Second Mile program at about the age of 10.

1994-95 Boy known as Victim 6 meets Sandusky at a Second Mile picnic at Spring Creek Park when he is 7 or 8 years old.

1995-96 Boy known as Victim 5, meets Sandusky through The Second Mile when he is 7 or 8, in second or third grade.

1996-97 Boy known as Victim 4, at the age of 12 or 13, meets Sandusky while he is in his second year participating in The Second Mile program.

1996-98 Victim 5 is taken to the locker rooms and showers at Penn State by Sandusky when he is 8 to 10 years old.

Jan. 1, 1998 Victim 4 is listed, along with Sandusky’s wife, as a member of Sandusky’s family party for the 1998 Outback Bowl.

1998 Victim 6 is taken into the locker rooms and showers when he is 11 years old. When Victim 6 is dropped off at home, his hair is wet from showering with Sandusky. His mother reports the incident to the university police, who investigate.

Detective Ronald Schreffler testifies that he and State College Police Department Detective Ralph Ralston, with the consent of the mother of Victim 6, eavesdrop on two conversations the mother of Victim 6 has with Sandusky. Sandusky says he has showered with other boys and Victim 6′s mother tries to make Sandusky promise never to shower with a boy again but he will not. At the end of the second conversation, after Sandusky is told he cannot see Victim 6 anymore, Schreffler testifies Sandusky says, “I understand. I was wrong. I wish I could get forgiveness. I know I won’t get it from you. I wish I were dead.”

Jerry Lauro, an investigator with the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, testifies he and Schreffler interviewed Sandusky, and that Sandusky admits showering naked with Victim 6, admits to hugging Victim 6 while in the shower and admits that it was wrong.

The case is closed after then-Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar decides there will be no criminal charge.

June 1999 Sandusky retires from Penn State but still holds emeritus status.

Dec. 28, 1999 Victim 4 is listed, along with Sandusky’s wife, as a member of Sandusky’s family party for the 1999 Alamo Bowl.

Summer 2000 Boy known as Victim 3 meets Sandusky through The Second Mile when he is between seventh and eighth grade.

Fall 2000 A janitor named James Calhoun observes Sandusky in the showers of the Lasch Football Building with a young boy, known as Victim 8, pinned up against the wall, performing oral sex on the boy. He tells other janitorial staff immediately. Fellow Office of Physical Plant employee Ronald Petrosky cleans the showers at Lasch and sees Sandusky and the boy, who he describes as being between the ages of 11 and 13.

Calhoun tells other physical plant employees what he saw, including Jay Witherite, his immediate supervisor. Witherite tells him to whom he should report the incident. Calhoun was a temporary employee and never makes a report. Victim 8′s identity is unknown.

March 1, 2002 A Penn State graduate assistant enters the locker room at the Lasch Football Building. In the showers, he sees a naked boy, known as Victim 2, whose age he estimates to be 10 years old, being subjected to anal intercourse by a naked Sandusky. The graduate assistant tells his father immediately.

March 2, 2002 In the morning, the graduate assistant calls coach Joe Paterno and goes to Paterno’s home, where he reports what he has seen.

March 3, 2002 Paterno calls Tim Curley, Penn State athletic director to his home the next day and reports a version of what the grad assistant had said.

March 2002 Later in the month the graduate assistant is called to a meeting with Curley and senior vice president for finance and business Gary Schultz. The grad assistant reports what he has seen and Curley and Schultz say they will look into it.

March 27, 2002 (approximate) The graduate assistant hears from Curley. He is told that Sandusky’s locker room keys are taken away and that the incident has been reported to The Second Mile. The graduate assistant is never questioned by university police and no other entity conducts an investigation until the graduate assistant testifies in grand jury in December 2010.

2005-2006 Boy known as Victim 1 says that he meets Sandusky through The Second Mile at age 11 or 12.

Spring 2007 During the 2007 track season, Sandusky begins spending time with Victim 1 weekly, having him stay overnight at his residence in College Township, Pa.

Spring 2008 Termination of contact with Victim 1 occurs when he is a freshman in a Clinton County high school. After the boy’s mother calls the school to report sexual assault, Sandusky is barred from the school district attended by Victim 1 from that day forward and the matter is reported to authorities as mandated by law.

Early 2009 An investigation by the Pennsylvania attorney general begins when a Clinton County, Pa., teen boy tells authorities that Sandusky has inappropriately touched him several times over a four-year period.

September 2010 Sandusky retires from day-to-day involvement with The Second Mile, saying he wants to spend more time with family and handle personal matters.

March 2011 Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot-News reports that grand jury is investigating Sandusky on allegations of indecent assault against a teenage boy. The Patriot-News reports that five people with knowledge of the case said the grand jury has been meeting for 18 months and has called witnesses, including Paterno and Curley. Penn State declines comment.

Nov. 5, 2011 Sandusky is arrested and released on $100,000 bail after being arraigned on 40 criminal counts

Nov. 7, 2011 Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly says Paterno is not a target of the investigation into how the school handled the accusations. But she refuses to say the same for university president Graham Spanier. Curley and Schultz, who have stepped down from their positions, surrender on charges that they failed to alert police to complaints against Sandusky.

Nov. 8, 2011 Possible ninth victim of Sandusky contacts state police as calls for ouster of Paterno and Spanier grow in state and beyond. Penn State abruptly cancels Paterno’s regular weekly news conference.

Nov. 9, 2011 Paterno announces in the morning he’ll retire at the end of the season, but the university’s board of trustees rules later that Paterno and Spanier are out effective immediately. Defensive coordinator Tom Bradley is named interim coach and provost Rodney Erickson is named interim university president

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Minister of Music Or Minister Of Gay?

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11 Aug

Pimp Preacher.com New Orleans Bureau 07/30/2011
Why Are So Many Straight Teenage Boys Turning Gay After Joining The Choir?

Growing up in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans way back in the late 70’s – early 80’s looked just like any other inner city neighborhood. Like many of you, my neighborhood also had a church on just about every other block, but there was something going on within my local church that impacted a few young men in a very damaging way.

Our local church was known for having some of the best preaching in the city, and the choir could go toe to toe with some of the more famous mass choirs of its day, but one of the ills of a mass choir is they attract masses of gay men.

Directly next door to me lived a very close and dear friend that I will refer to as Kerry. The interesting fact about Kerry was he was just a normal teenage boy, up until the time he joined 1st Thessalonians Baptist Church on Caffin Ave (in the Lower 9th Ward).

First Thessalonians Baptist Church featured the fiery preaching of Rev. Edmond G. Prevost, Sr, a very active, approachable, and humble servant of our Lord. His passion to grow this neighborhood church into vital resource for my Lower 9th Ward community came with a very unfortunate compromise; the choir director was a flamboyantly effeminate man.

My childhood friend joined 1st Thessalonians Baptist Church and became a very active member of the choir. After a while, he stopped playing touch football with the crew in the middle of the street and opted to only attend non-stop choir rehearsals. This strict regimen of rehearsals was a mandate of choir director Mr. Reuben, and my buddy simply fell in line.

We began to notice a gradual change in Kerry’s behavior and mannerism, from that of typically masculine, to the appearance of soft and reserved. His style of clothes changed, his friends changed, and the way he sported his hair dramatically changed.

The Chicken Or The Egg?

On my block we had a term called getting “turned out” which translated to say that someone had molested you, and now you’re gay. Someone in the choir had “turned out” my friend, but who was responsible?

Fast forward the clock from 1985 to 2011 and I now report that my friend Kerry is a very openly gay African American Man.

The reason why I wanted to share this story is because Kerry started out the same as all the other young men in my neighborhood, but I can place my finger on the exact moment he detoured down the path to a gay lifestyle.

Some would even argue that Kerry was already gay before he joined the choir at 1st Thessalonians Baptist Church, but I would present a very strong rebuttal to that thought process. He was just as normal as I was, I would know, because he was one of my closest childhood friends. Despite those who would discount the fact that a young impressionable man can be influenced by an openly gay man then please allow me to present my friend, who was introduced to a world of homosexuality.

Once again, I state that Kerry was a normal teen until he joined the choir that was under the direction of an openly gay man. It is my firm belief that when my friend embraced his new choir members over hanging with me and the crew, he also embraced the lifestyles of the gay men within that choir. He also decided at that moment to adapt the mannerisms of someone whom he considered to be a mentor, the gay choir director.

I don’t believe that Kerry was gay first; I believe that he was straight first, and then became gay. He submerged himself in a sea of feminine men, and as a direct result, he became one of them.

Maybe it’s The Choir Robes?

As you can image, I was very upset at losing my buddy to the lifestyle of “Church Gay” so in a last ditch effort to understand it I turned to my brutally honest uncle. This was a big mistake because his entire theory centered on the notion that there must be something in choir robes that made them gay. Then he progressed to his second offset theory that it must be something in the organ bench that made them gay. Like I said, turning to him was a very big mistake. It’s a good thing that I never accepted his theory of “Gay-volution” or I would have really missed the real issue of why straight teenage boys are getting turned out in church.

Our church choirs have always featured gay men regardless of the anti-gay message preached from the pulpit. Long before the debate over gay marriages, we as the people who sat in the pews have witnessed the marriages of ambitious pastors and openly gay choir directors on a routine basis.

In a quest to grow the congregation into a “Mega-Church” by exploiting choir members, pastors have existed in a visible contradiction by ignoring the life style of their choir directors.

In the City of New Orleans we had very famous, but yet obviously gay choir directors; some even went on to receive national acclaim:

Alvin S. Hadley
Phillip Britton
Raymond Miles
Alvin S. Hadley – Gospel Soul Children

Phillip Britton – Greater St. Stephens under Bishop Paul S. Morton

Raymond Miles – Served as both a choir director and renowned gospel recording artist.

Alvin Hadley and the Gospel Soul Children changed the entire presentation and sound of gospel music in the 1980’s. This dynamic choir was loaded with some of the best voices in the city, which only aided in the spreading of the HIV virus that infected the group and took the life of its founder, Alvin S. Hadley.

Phillip Britton of Greater St. Stephens was very gifted in the art of directing a choir as well as a song writer. He is most noted for a very famous alter call song titled “We offer Christ to you” performed originally with Bishop Paul Morton. Likewise, in 1999 Phillip Britton was a defendant in a case in which the plaintiff (a 16 year old boy at the time of the incident) charged that Britton had sex with him over 50 times.

Raymond Miles, a favorite at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Gospel Tent (also Essence Music Festival) is still considered by most to be one of the most influential gospel artists from New Orleans. Anyone who had the opportunity to see one of Raymond Miles performances came away with two realizations.

(1) Raymond Miles was very talented,

(2) Raymond Miles was very gay.

All three men are now deceased in which two of them (Alvin Hadley and Phillip Britton) both died of HIV. Raymond Miles death was surrounded with stories of a gay quarrel that resulted in his murder and carjacking.The one thing that all three of these men had in common (other than their questionable life styles) is the traditional Baptist church choir.

A Or B Selection Only!

Our young sons are very impressionable no matter if it’s Lil Wayne, Michael Vick, or Tonex, at some point we will have to address this presence of feminine acting men within our congregations. If a young man decides to join the gay life style after he has already reached the age of adulthood then the guardian of that young man is not at fault for his life choices. Fault is only assigned when parents allow gay men in church leadership to seduce their sons into a lifestyle that is clearly banned in the scriptures.

We can no longer tolerate the gay choir director anymore then we can tolerate the masculine prophetess, somehow this has to stop. Within our congregations are men and women with sub-agendas, ulterior motives, and selfish intents, all seeking to devour the innocence of our teens. Our youth are now being targeted and recruited within the one place where they should be free to develop into powerful men and women of God.

Young men will become the options they’re presented, whether negative or positive. As parents, our challenge is to control their exposure, even the environment they’re exposed to within the church. Controlling their exposure does not mean to limit it, but rather to play a major role in the lifestyle and career path of your teenage son.

Choir directors / ministers of music are very luminous personalities by design whom often receive a tremendous amount of accolades and compliments for their performances. To a very impressionable teen who struggles to get acknowledgments and compliments, they can very easily conclude that the flamboyant behavior of the choir director is the best way to get noticed, even if he’s gay.

The intent of this article is to come across exactly how it reads without the sugarcoating. We have to protect our teens from men within the congregation who would like to add to them to the rosters of alternative lifestyles.

As a pastor, taking a stand against gay marriage also means taking a stand against gay musicians. If you would not officiate a marriage ceremony of a lesbian couple, then don’t sign the pay check of your gay minister of music. When you endorse the pay check of one of your down low staff members you are also endorsing his behavior, and his actions.

Sit Him Down!

We are losing our young men because we have failed to challenge those who refuse to change. Yes, it is their right to be gay, but not in my church!

As the pastor, you have to walk right up to the individual that you feel is influencing the youth of your congregation, and sit him down.

There is no gray area or middle ground, if your choir director / minister of music is effeminate then you are responsible for every young man in your congregation that is recruited into the gay lifestyle due to the influence of his position. Sit him down immediately, which means today.

If you’re sitting on the Board of one of these congregations, then you too are responsible for the presentation of your ministry, sit him down!

I will no longer treat the gay choir director as if it’s all too much about nothing; it’s all too little about something extremely important. Church is not a place that a young man should go only to learn how to act like a woman. Before iron can sharpen iron there has to be the presence of iron within your congregation. The examples that our young men need to absorb are those of real men of God or as my grandmother would call them “Manish Men.”

And no, it is not always easy to sit someone down who is committed and faithful to the ministry, but as pastor you’re not planted for the glitz & glamour, but for the grunt. Don’t allow your ministry to succumb to the same level of filth as the GMCA (Gospel Music Workshop of America) which has become nothing more then a “hookup” convention for gay choir directors, and choir members.

Do your job, and protect the borders of your church from the gay culture, which is the sole responsibility of the Shepard/Pastor. To Protect!!!

Rom. 1:26-28,

26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,

27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper.”

By: A Black Man From New Orleans

Church Folk Revolution

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Gay Marriage Is Legalized in New York!

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25 Jun

By ARUN KRISTIAN DAS
MyFox New York

MYFOXNY.COM – Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Marriage Equality Act into law at 11:55 p.m. Friday, making New York the sixth state in the union to allow same-sex couples to marry. The law takes effect in 30 days.

After days of public and private debate and negotiations, the state Senate passed the legislation in a 33-29 vote at about 10:30 p.m. Friday.

In a sign of the legislation’s symbolic and well as actual importance, Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy presided over the Senate as lawmakers debated the amendment and the full bill on the floor of the chamber at the state Capitol in Albany.

Earlier Friday, legislative leaders had hashed out revised language in legislation before agreeing to put the bill to a vote.

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The bill’s passage appeared assured when Sen. Stephen Saland, a Republican from Poughkeepsie, who had been undecided, said he would vote for the bill because he was confident added exemptions would protect churches and other religious groups.

“I know my vote is a vote of conscience, and I am certainly at peace with my vote,” Saland said.

Then another previously undecided Republican, Mark Grisanti from Buffalo, said that as a lawyer he did extensive research on the matter and couldn’t justify denying gay couples the same rights he and his wife enjoy.

“I apologize to those I offend,” said Gristanti, a Roman Catholic. “But I believe you can be wiser today than yesterday. I believe this state needs to provide equal rights and protections for all its residents.”

The impending passage of the bill brought Sen. Thomas Duane, an openly gay Democrat from Manhattan, to tears.

“Marriage strengthens families, and it’s going to strengthen all New York families,” he said.

Governor Cuomo, a Democrat, lobbied hard for the bill.

“New York has finally torn down the barrier that has prevented same-sex couples from exercising the freedom to marry and from receiving the fundamental protections that so many couples and families take for granted,” Cuomo said in a statement. “With the world watching, the Legislature, by a bipartisan vote, has said that all New Yorkers are equal under the law. With this vote, marriage equality will become a reality in our state, delivering long overdue fairness and legal security to thousands of New Yorkers.”

But the Catholic Church in New York swiftly condemned the passage of the legislation. In a statement signed by New York’s eight bishops, led by Archbishiop Timothy Dolan, the clergy said they were “deeply disappointed and troubled.”

“We strongly uphold the Catholic Church’s clear teaching that we always treat our homosexual brothers and sisters with respect, dignity and love,” Dolan and the bishops said in the statement. “But we just as strongly affirm that marriage is the joining of one man and one woman in a lifelong, loving union that is open to children, ordered for the good of those children and the spouses themselves. This definition cannot change, though we realize that our beliefs about the nature of marriage will continue to be ridiculed, and that some will even now attempt to enact government sanctions against churches and religious organizations that preach these timeless truths.”

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who is openly gay and has been lobbying for the bill’s passage, reveled in the development.

“When I was a little girl I dreamed I would one day get married, I never imagined that it would take tonight’s Senate action to make that dream come true,” Quinn said in a statement. “Tonight’s historic Senate vote is a great moment for all New Yorkers. New York State’s recognition of marriage equality for same sex couples is an extraordinary step towards full equality for LGBT people. Tonight’s sweet victory in Albany will be felt all across America. At long last, the change we have fought for will be seen in the lives of families throughout our great state, including my own.”

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is a strong supporter of the rights of same-sex couples to marry, had met with several GOP lawmakers in recent weeks and urged them to pass the bill. Bloomberg, an independent, has contributed campaign funds to several Republicans over the years.

“Today’s passage in the New York State Senate of legislation recognizing the right of couples to marry regardless of their gender is a historic triumph for equality and freedom,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement. “New York has always been a leader in movements to extend freedom and equality to people who had been denied full membership in the American family. By welcoming all people — no matter where they are from, what faith or philosophy they follow, or whom they love — New York became the strongest, most dynamic city in the world. And today, we are even stronger than we were yesterday.”

New York, the nation’s third-most populous state, joins Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Washington, D.C., in allowing same-sex couples to wed.

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Log Cabin Republicans Take “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” to Supreme Court, what are they afraid of?

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09 Nov

Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 6, 2010

A Republican group suing the Obama administration to end the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” law asked the Supreme Court on Friday to overrule this week’s decision by a federal appeals court to keep the policy in place while it considers the matter.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, who received the Log Cabin Republicans’ filing, asked the Justice Department for its response. Kennedy is the justice responsible for appeals from the 9th Circuit; he can either rule on the case on his own or refer it to the entire court.

On Monday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that the Pentagon can keep enforcing the ban on gay men and lesbians openly serving in uniform. The appeals court is set to hear arguments on the matter at a later date.

The Obama administration has argued that a court order to suddenly end the ban without first properly training military personnel could wreak havoc on the force and disrupt the ranks.

But the Log Cabin Republicans, which advocates for gay rights, argued in its filing that the only harm the government would suffer by lifting the ban is “entirely bureaucratic, procedural and transitory in nature,” and “sharply outweighed by the substantial constitutional injury that service members will sustain” by keeping the policy in place.

“It is unfortunate the Obama Justice Department has forced the Log Cabin Republicans to go to the Supreme Court,” LCR Executive Director R. Clarke Cooper said in a statement. Cooper was a State Department official during George W. Bush’s administration and is a captain with the U.S. Army Reserves.

“The 9th Circuit order was arbitrary and an abuse of discretion and should be vacated immediately,” said Dan Woods, the attorney representing LCR. “We continue to look forward to the day when all Americans can serve in our military without regard to their sexual orientation.”

If the Supreme Court was to hear the case, Justice Elena Kagan would likely recuse herself, because she worked on the Justice Department’s case strategy in her previous role as solicitor general. That would leave the case in the hands of just eight justices, five of whom are considered conservative and three considered more liberal.

Should the Supreme Court vacate the 9th Circuit’s decision, then enforcement of “don’t ask, don’t tell” is once again ended pending any appeal by the Obama administration. If the high court declines to hear LCR’s appeal, then the policy remains in place and the case remains under consideration by the appeals court.

Despite the work of several left-leaning gay rights organizations, LCR has emerged in recent weeks as one of the most high-profile organizations opposed to “don’t ask, don’t tell.” The group has about 19,000 members nationwide.

It sued the Obama administration this summer to end the policy and caught the Pentagon off guard when a district court judge ruled the policy unconstitutional and ordered the military to stop enforcing it.

Cooper and other gay rights leaders met briefly last week with President Obama to discuss legislative efforts to repeal the ban. LCR is also lobbying five moderate Republicans to ensure any repeal legislation has enough support to pass the Senate during the upcoming lame-duck session.

Staff writer Robert Barnes contributed to this report.

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Black LGBT community builds their own houses of worship, Jesus did speak about Sodom and Gommorah!

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05 Nov

Kevin E. Taylor found a passion for church almost as early as he discovered an attraction to boys. Baptized at 10-years-old at a small Baptist Church in the Southwest section of Washington D.C., he fondly remembers the congregation’s blind, piano-playing pastor, who preached about God’s love with the fervor of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. He said it never crossed his young mind that his sexual orientation and his Christian faith would one day come into conflict.

But when Taylor turned 17, his beloved pastor died, and a new reverend–with a new message–took the pulpit. “It was the first time I heard God and hate in the same sentence,” Taylor said about the new pastor’s fiery rants. “I could not wrap my young mind around why the same God who created and loved everybody now hated so many people.”

Taylor stuck it out until the situation finally came to a head. “One Sunday, he turned the rifle on me — on gay people,” he said. “I remember when he started up, I looked at my mother. She turned to me and knowingly said, ‘Bye, baby.’ And I walked out of the church.”

Taylor would eventually return — but this time as a pastor at his own congregation, where he teaches a radically different message about sexuality. He represents a growing number of black LGBT Christians who, turned off by the anti-gay messages of conservative pastors like Bishop Eddie Long, have walked out of mainstream black churches and into the pews of progressive black congregations that accept them as they are.

Today, Taylor is the founding pastor of the progressive, predominantly black Unity Fellowship Church of New Brunswick. Beginning as a seven-person bible study in a friend’s Teaneck, NJ living room, the congregation now has its own sanctuary in New Brunswick and lists 150 people on its rolls. The primarily LGBT parishioners come to take part in a culture that not only accepts their homosexuality, but celebrates it as part of God’s design.

Taylor’s institution is far from an anomaly. Just up the turnpike in Newark, openly lesbian Rev. Janyce L. Jackson presides over Liberation in Truth Unity Fellowship Church. Across the Hudson, a similar gay-friendly sanctuary stands in Brooklyn.

All of them belong to the Unity Fellowship Church Movement, a nondenominational collection of 17 black churches spanning from Buffalo to San Diego. Joining them is The Fellowship, founded by Bishop Yvette Flunder and comprised of more than 50 primarily African-American churches. These progressive institutions — referred to as “affirming” — have blossomed throughout the country, spreading a gospel of social justice and “radical inclusion.”

According to Josef Sorett, Assistant Professor of African-American Studies and Religion at Columbia University, many openly gay parishioners seek affirming churches as a refuge from the hostility they face at mainstream places of worship. “These are nontraditional churches that have established themselves out of oppression and exclusion,” he said.

For Brandon Cordy, 28, the oppression was so suffocating five years ago that he attempted suicide and subsequently spent three days in a psychiatric hospital. “I couldn’t juxtapose what I was taught with what I felt and what I knew to be true,” he said. “It was literally driving me crazy.”

While the stereotype of a pastor railing against homosexuality to the congregation’s delight holds true at many churches nationwide, according to Sorett, the heterosexist culture in these sanctuaries is often a more subtle and systematic. “Even if a church isn’t vocally preaching against homosexuality, there are other ways that it reinforces the idea that heterosexual relationships are the only acceptable model,” he said.

Warren (he gives only his first name for fear of repercussions), 29, learned the hard way that gossip is one of these subtle methods. By age 17, he had come out of the closet in the secular world, but remained private about his sexual orientation at his Baptist church in San Diego. But that didn’t stop him from getting harassed by two middle-aged women in his Bible study.

“I was going through a period where I hoped I could pray the gay away,” he said. “I remember they were questioning me about my faith, about who I was. They said they knew something was going on with me.”

Warren said that the final straw came when his grandmother, a conservative Christian, questioned him about his sexuality based on church gossip. He said that the mean-spirited whispering across the pews “ruined my relationship with her and with God. It took me a long time to find my way back to trusting people of faith.”

While anti-gay messages push some like Cordy and Warren to lose faith temporarily, or perhaps forever, others seek out the comfort of a theology that speaks to them. Many of the affirming churches they attend embrace verse John 3:16, which states that Jesus died so that “whosoever” believes in him will find heaven. They highlight “whosoever” as a mandate for LGBT inclusion in Christian life. They say that the Jesus they know is the divine creator of all human beings, loves all of God’s children, and never directly spoke a word about homosexuality in the Bible.

Affirming churches, many of which campaign for marriage equality and other LGBT issues, see their marriage of scripture with social justice as in keeping with the black tradition of black church activism. After all, the black church was an instrumental force in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Pastor Jim Swilley Declares That He Is Gay – Preacher Bureau of Investigations Declares A Victory For Integrity.

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05 Nov

(I-Newswire) Atlanta, GA, November 2, 2010 – Preacher Bureau of Investigations Declares A Victory For Integrity.

Mega Church Pastor Jim Swilley jumped out of the closet on Monday and declared to his entire congregation that he is in fact GAY. Jim Swilley says that he was gay even at the moment he started his ministry. The mega church pastor said that this was the best time to come out of the closet in light of the recent gay teen suicides.

The story broke as an ABC Exclusive and is now creating a doctrine wave within the evangelical community. Pastor Swilley’s announcement comes on the heels of the Bishop Eddie Long sex scandal involving four men who say that Bishop Long coerced them into homosexual relationships.

A spokesperson for The Preacher Bureau of Investigations (www.PimpPreacher.com) says they welcomed the announcement for a variety of reasons but the most important reason is integrity in the pulpit.

“We have continued to beat the drum of integrity and demanded higher standards for the men and women in church leadership. On our weekly radio show we put out a national call for Pastors to step down if they have issues that conflict with the word of God. We are very happy that Pastor Swilley complied with our advice.”

Pastor Jim Swilley says his wife has known from the beginning that he was gay but after their divorce earlier this year she urged him to come clean. Pastor Swilley has come under attack from conservative Christian groups and the name calling has now begun.

“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.”

Swilley said churches in Kenya and The Philippines under his authority as a bishop remain strong but was not sure of who will take over for him.

There may also be questions about the future of the church. CITN is one of the largest in the community with a membership of 1,200, according to Renee Babcock, the church’s executive secretary. The CITN campus is a landmark overlooking Interstate 20, just west of the Salem Road exit.

In his comments, Swilley said he wants to continue his ministry and that everything is “on the altar, and if we do lose it everybody is ready to start something else.”

“Our church, financially, is in the natural,” he said, apparently referring to the down economy. “It’s not in a great place. I don’t know if the church can survive this,” he said. “I definitely know I’m the talk of the town after 38 years, but I wish people can remember me for the fruits of my gifts.”

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Atlanta LGBT pastor speaks out against Long!

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10 Oct

Pastor Dennis A. Meredith, of Atlanta’s Tabernacle Baptist Church, home to many of the city’s LGBT Christians, speaks out against Eddie Long’s recent statement on Sunday where the megachurch pastor addressed his congregation, followed by a short statement to the media.

The video of Meredith was submitted to CNN’s “iReport” by a member of Meredith’s congregation. The clip was shot by independent filmmaker Jessica Imoto Harney.

Pastor Meredith identities himself as a gay, bi-sexual man and calls himself an “affirming pastor.” He addresses the controversy in which Long is accused of sexually abusing four young men. Meredith seems to side with the young men, stating he is concerned and disappointed. The pastor also reveals that he is saddened that no compassion has been offered to the accusers.

Meredith is one of the first pastors in the Atlanta Christian community to publicly speak out against Long, and states that his church has been the object of “dehumanizing language.” Meredith says that members of his church have left and joined Long’s church because they disagreed with his point of view that God loves everybody despite their sexual orientation.

According to a 2007 New York Times article, Meredith changed his preachings against homosexuality when his son revealed he was gay. Apparently shortly after, and in the clip, Meredith admits to coming out to his congregation, stating it was a process.

“Instead of him having the courage to stand up there and confess and to tell the truth about what he has done and who he is, he once again hides behinds his pulpit, and hides behind the crowds of people who protect him.” Meredith says that something should be said to end the homophobia that comes from so many African American pulpits.

Meredith, who clearly finds Long to be guilty of the accusations, continues, “I’m not saying he has to come out, but its an opportunity to tell the truth, and to bring healing to the community.”

Meredith says directly to Long, “You don’t go around dehumanizing this population while at the same time, doing what they do.”

Eddie Long addressed his congregation again on Tuesday evening. The pastor called the allegations and the media’s coverage “spiritual warfare.” A clip of his statement can be seen here.

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WATCH: Atheist Hitchens Says the Pope Needs to be Served Papers and Arrested Even if it is at the Vatican; And “Protestant” Christians Should Agree With That.

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14 Apr

Where Is the Protestant Christian Outrage against These Wicked and Heinous Crimes Against Our Children and Against Humanity?

Richard Dawkins, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain “for crimes against humanity”.

Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.

The pair believe they can exploit the same legal principle used to arrest Augusto Pinochet, the late Chilean dictator, when he visited Britain in 1998.

The Pope was embroiled in new controversy this weekend over a letter he signed arguing that the “good of the universal church” should be considered against the defrocking of an American priest who committed sex offences against two boys. It was dated 1985, when he was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which deals with sex abuse cases.

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Red Panties! This is the beginning of my story:1946 – 1986.

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12 Apr

Red Panties represents the title of my memoir that I am writing these days and desire to have available for your reading pleasure soon. The memoir will cover the period of 1946 through 1986 and reveal the types of things that I went through being a Christian saved and sanctified with the gift of Holy Spirit speaking in tongues and a Sex Addict simultaneously.

This book will reveal how God in His mercy blessed me to overcome being sexually abused as a child, raped and molested. The book will show how God blessed me to transition from my childhood sexual tragedies to becoming a fully fledged sexual addict and finally receiving complete healing and deliverance by God Himself.

His Word says that “He sent His Word and healed them of all their destructions.” That is exactly what God did for me by blessing me to forgive and unconditionally love my father, brother and sister who were my abusers. You will say where my mother was – she worked three and four jobs to keep us from being hungry, homeless and helping my dad build a church.

I know my assignment is to uncover, expose and be one of the many catalysts to get people talking about the taboo of sex so that the spirit of shame, embarrassment and guilt is broken and bringing healing to those who desire help.

It is now time for others abused like me (male and female) to be able to confront our abusers and release ourselves from the bondage that has held so many in silences for too long. This is necessary even if the abuser claims to be innocent as I found out when I confronted my brother. I never did get to confront my father, but I have forgiven and love him unconditionally which the Lord blessed me to do rather than for me to go to hell with the hate that was in my heart for my father. My sister and I have reconciled and we chat periodically.

Only God could deliver me from sexual addiction since the world system does not believe you can be delivered.

Red Panties will be graphic to make the point for you to know that no matter how deep the sin and sinful behavior God delivers. Red Panties is actually the book that represents my behavior before I wrote “Don’t Say a Word About This! Exposing and Confronting Sexual Perversion!”

In Red Panties you will learn just how the Lord brought me out of sexual perversion and how he has given me the ability to help those who desire to be free totally in body, mind and soul from what I believe to be the most addictive behavior on the planet – sexual addiction.

Red Panties is written in a style that may offend some Christians and cause them to cringe at its candor and detail. This detail is written to let you know that I know what I am talking about and how I can help you that desire to be helped with love and understanding. The book is not about condemning anyone or character assassination, but rather exposing the truth as I experienced it.

God desires the best for all of us, but each individual needs to want to receive God and enjoy Gods best here on this planet. He will not make us do anything we do not want to do.

You will be able to order your copy of Red Panties soon.

Loren C. Due, Ph.D.
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