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For Gay Christian Musicians, Work Balances Faith, Art, Love
NPR ^ | July 31, 2011 | David Person

Posted on 08/01/2011 9:03:54 AM PDT by Bed_Zeppelin

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To: Bed_Zeppelin
I get so tired of seeing/hearing these people referred to as 'Gay'.

There is absolutely nothing 'Gay' about a lifestyle rife in alcoholism, drug usage, the high incidence of domestic violence and STDs.

They are 'Homosexuals' ... period. They prefer the term 'Gay' only because it softens their image in the eyes of the culture.

21 posted on 08/01/2011 9:49:24 AM PDT by CIBvet (So how's all this FAST TRACKED - FREE TRADE workin' out for you so far, Comrade Job-Seekers ?)
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To: Bed_Zeppelin

“Gay Christian Musicians”

Well alrighty then. This is like a story about conservative liberals or coach potato marathon runners.


22 posted on 08/01/2011 9:49:58 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I love how the FR spellchecker doesn't recognize the word "Obama")
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To: Bed_Zeppelin

Defund NPR and let it find a market on its own.

Why I have to underwrite this is ridiculous. Moreover, if we are cutting, and CANNOT CUT NPR, then what can we cut?


23 posted on 08/01/2011 9:54:02 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Note that there are no group of Christians that are ever referred to as Adulterating Christians. You know, they are Christians, yet they believe God made them to have extramarital affairs. Or Beastiality Christians. Or Pedophiliac Christians. Or Alcoholic Christians (the ones who never go up for communion).

Not yet. But wait.

24 posted on 08/01/2011 9:54:02 AM PDT by chesley (Eat what you want, and die like a man.)
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To: TheGunny

“Gay Christian is an oxymoron! There is no such animal as a Gay Chirstian.”

Sure there are, just like there are adulterous Christians, lying Christians, Obese Christians, smoking Christians, Drunk Christians, Murderous Christians and so on and so forth. The thing is, that it is a Homo stuff is a sin.

A Gay Christian would be convicted of that and not try to justify it, I would think. But he still could be one.


25 posted on 08/01/2011 10:05:36 AM PDT by bluecollarman (searching .......)
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To: Osage Orange

“I liked many of Jennifer Knapp’s songs......

Hated it...when I heard she announced that she was a lesbian.”

Ray Boltz is too. I used sing to do a lot of his songs at church. Now he is now hitting for the other team. I guess the Anchor did not hold to well for Ray.


26 posted on 08/01/2011 10:10:01 AM PDT by bluecollarman (searching .......)
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To: JerseyHighlander

“As these guys have told me, Some of the regular hymnal compositions used every Sunday in the US were written by gay men who never came out of the closet.”

That’s a damn lie - and you are a fool for believing.

Fag would have you believe George Washington was a homo - if your gullible enough!


27 posted on 08/01/2011 10:13:56 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Bed_Zeppelin

There is no such thing as a “gay Christian musician”.


28 posted on 08/01/2011 10:17:48 AM PDT by upsdriver (to undo the damage the "intellectual elites" have done. . . . . Sarah Palin for President!)
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To: bluecollarman

Ray Boltz had a great song at one time...”What Was I Supposed to Be?” Should have been the anthem for Pro-Life.

I feel sorry for these people. They will be some of the ones who say, “Lord, Lord...I did this in Your name and that in Your name.” And He will say, “Depart from me ye accursed. I never knew you.”

Scary.


29 posted on 08/01/2011 10:17:57 AM PDT by americanMel ("But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come." 2 Tim 3:1)
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To: Osage Orange

songs like her 1998 hit, “Undo Me”?

And her 2008 followup, “Do Me”?


30 posted on 08/01/2011 10:19:43 AM PDT by flowerplough (Pelosi on Republicans: "They want to destroy food safety, clean air, clean water, ...")
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To: Bed_Zeppelin

I love Romans. If you could only have one book of the Bible, sufficient for everything, it would be Romans.


31 posted on 08/01/2011 10:22:54 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (There ARE two Americas: "God's children" and the tax payers)
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To: Osage Orange

I don’t see how the knowledge of the sexual proclivity of a person that writes/performs a song, can actually change the appeal of a song? It’s the exact same song as before you knew her sexual preference, isn’t it?


32 posted on 08/01/2011 10:35:51 AM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: Osage Orange

Like when Amy Grant left her husband and family for another man.

She was a huge star.

She basically lost her career for that adultery (as it appeared).

I do not know the circumstances of her leaving her husband/kids but I have heard no defense from her except that she fell in love with another man, so, I leave it at that.

Homosexuality isn’t the only sexual sin that can ruin a “Christian” career.


33 posted on 08/01/2011 10:44:52 AM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: JerseyHighlander

“It’s the gay musicians working the Christian bar/cafe scene that get judged by the plastic people who attend those singsong services at churches using electric guitars on Sunday mornings.

Lest ye be judged.”

Jersey Highlander, are you suggesting that because we believe and accept God’s word on this matter, or any other matter, we are plastic and judgemental?

Shall we have the local unrepentant abortionist take communion? The man with the live-in girlfriend? The fence for the local stolen cars? Shall I sing God’s praises as written by the local pimp? Lest I be considered “judgemental?”

I am not suggesting that any of the above can’t repent and know the Lord -

but like you and I they must REPENT, not continue blithely in their sins of choice.

2nd John 9-11

“Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds.”


34 posted on 08/01/2011 10:55:00 AM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: PGR88

but why doesn’t the media ever talk about “Adulterous Christians” or “Bank-robbing Christians?

I disagree. The media has been talking about a certain “Christian terrorist” lately.


35 posted on 08/01/2011 11:07:31 AM PDT by Augustinian monk
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To: stuartcr
Never meant to imply I still don't like her songs.......

What I meant to say...is I used to listen to her songs back when she was popular.

That make sense?

36 posted on 08/01/2011 11:42:02 AM PDT by Osage Orange (HE HATE ME)
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To: Bed_Zeppelin
>> "The time will come," she says, "when the church will celebrate its gay children and the incredible contributions that same-gender-loving people have made to the life, to the income, to the spirit, to the power, to the passion of the church."<<

And it will be after the rapture and the establishment of the one world religion. She won’t like the ultimate end of that scenario.

37 posted on 08/01/2011 11:43:29 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: Da Coyote

“There are plenty of Christian churches that have no problem with this. The gays can simply worship there.”

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There are plenty of “Christian” churches, replete with gift shops and entertainment-first Vegas show worship services, that don’t have a problem with pretty much ANYTHING, as long as it means new tithing members.


38 posted on 08/01/2011 11:46:56 AM PDT by EyeGuy (2012: When the Levee Breaks)
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To: Osage Orange
"Undo Me" kicked so much ass!

Jen would have destroyed ANYTHING on the radio during that timeframe!

39 posted on 08/01/2011 12:00:48 PM PDT by Cheapskate (Play loud and carry BIG sticks!)
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To: Osage Orange

yeah


40 posted on 08/01/2011 12:33:34 PM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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