Posted on 09/06/2025 12:31:29 PM PDT by Morgana
Former singer and songwriter Ray Boltz has ‘married’ his longtime partner, Franco Sperduti, after nearly 20 years together.
Boltz, 72, a prominent recording artist through the late 1980s and 1990s, is perhaps best known for his song “Thank You,” which won the 1990 GMA Dove Award for Song of the Year, as well as “Watch the Lamb” and “I Pledge Allegiance to the Lamb.” He briefly retired from music in 2003, separated from his wife, Carol, with whom he had four children, in 2005, and finalized the divorce in 2008.
He reemerged on the music scene in 2010 with his album True, which featured the song “Don’t Tell Me Who to Love,” explicitly defending same-sex relationships. Sometime between 2005 and 2009, he entered into a relationship with his booking agent, Franco Sperduti. The couple moved in together and have been together ever since. Boltz retired again in 2023 without releasing another album.
On his newly created Instagram account, Ray Boltz released a video of himself singing his 2010 song “You Came to Me,” accompanied by images and footage from his wedding.
While we were unable to determine the exact date of the wedding, all indications suggest it was very recent. He explained his reasoning for sharing the video in an accompanying upload, saying:
You see, I used to be in prison. Now, it wasn’t a penitentiary or a county jail kind of prison. It was a prison constructed by religious doctrine and teachings. Teachings that said, ‘you’re not what you feel, you’re what the Bible says you are.’
In fact, ‘you’re not what you feel, you’re what we say the Bible says you are, and we say, the Bible says, you can’t be gay’
Now things are a little different now. I think they’re saying that you can have feelings and they’re not necessarily sin unless you act. Can you imagine what that means to a young person? To say, you’ll never wake up in the morning and have a cup of coffee with your partner. You’ll never take a nap with them in the afternoon or fall asleep on the couch watching a Hallmark Christmas movie. You’ll never walk down the beach holding hands?
No. What you’re saying is if you’re gay and you’re a Christian, you’ll be alone. You’ll live alone and in the end, you’ll be alone. And that is a prison.
When Franco came to me, our love set me free. That’s why I wrote the lyrics, though my prison had no bars, I was too afraid to leave until you came to me.
Oh no! I hardly recognized this guy’s name, but I just searched, and that song, “Watch the Lamb”, used to be played frequently at Easter services 20 - 30 years ago. This guy has now created his own rules and going against Christianity big time!
He re-wrote “The Anchor Holds” and made it a hit. He was also not gay(married to his wife) for 33 years
I used to love this song when I was a teen.
https://youtu.be/zslyvZeU-IE?si=ynuN1GIrDSA061XC
Really sad what happened to him.
And he’ll have to answer for it on judgement day, big time!
The bible doesn’t say who you can’t watch Hallmark movies with. It only who you can’t “have sex” with. And because of biology, I even need to use quotes around “have sex.”
However, it also says you don’t leave your wife and kids after dozens of years building a life together.
I think he had a wife for a long time but no one acccuses the gay individual of hate for what they do to the spouse. This article doesn’t even mention this.
I typed in “CCM” on my browser and got some interesting citations, but none of them seemed to be related to Music. What does the CCM in the headline stand for?
Contemporary Christian Music
I have told people for decades to avoid CCM.
These are the people making and producing this stuff.
Contemporary Christian Music, Frank Garlock
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzwubyoFKp4ImevaCsMOKZOm0cGYogyu6
you dont marry and turn gay.
He was gay long before this.
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