Assam says last year when she told church leaders she is gay, she was asked to leave the church.New Life pastor Brady Boyd told the Colorado Springs Gazette the report is untrue. "We would never tell someone to leave because of their sexual orientation," Boyd says. "Jeanne will always be a hero at New Life."
She is a hero.
Every report I've seen is a copy of this one. This does not tell us enough about what the church actually did to make an informed judgment about it.
So many are so quick to judge her. There are two sides to every story.
I believe that God places a person in such a situation for a reason. Surely God could have chosen another person to be the one to stop the gunman if He so willed it, but for some reason she was the one chosen to do it.
For what she did in stopping that gunman who was armed with an AR-15 rifle when she herself was armed with a 9mm pistol from killing a lot more people, Jeanne Assam will always be one of my heros.
She is and remains one of my inspirations for going into law enforcement myself. Straight or Lesbian, it matters not to me.
For what it's worth, I did a Google seach for Jeanne Assam and found her web site here:
And down at the bottom is a link to her blog here:
http://jeanneassam.wordpress.com/
Her latest blog post deals with this latest news telling her version of the story in her own words.