Category — Soulforce

Satan’s ministers of righteousness wear clerical collars and talk very religious. Some of them you have to listen to with a discerning eye before you can determine that they are speaking the lies of their father. Others, have dropped any pretense about who they have sold themselves out to. Meet James (Mel) White, the godfather of the gay christian movement and founder of Soulforce.

The lies pour out of this man’s mouth like vomit:
1. growing up in an evangelical home makes you right
2. believes in Jesus as savior makes you right
3. if wife gives approval, its okay to be gay
4. “straight marriage” is not a option for gay people
5. tell your child as early as possible to accept homosexuality
6. If you feel same sex attractions early, its okay
7. God makes people gay
8. God “works” through the spiritually blind
9. God is a woman
10.Homosexuality is a gift, dont give it back

Irony runs deep among the leaders of the gay christian movement. Case in point: gay christian false prophet James (Mel) White.

Mel White’s theological darkness may be as black as midnight, but shining the light on it helps unsuspecting people to avoid being ensnared by his spider web of lies. Back in 2007, we told you how White had instructed his followers not to discuss the bible with people who disagree with their lies. That’s how they weasel out of having to defend themselves.

Lately, we haven’t heard much from the former conservative ghost writer, whose claim to fame included tracking the late Jerry Falwell and starting the quasi-Christianesque gay terrorist group Soulforce.  White has been absent from the scene for several years. The reason for his unannounced disappearance isn’t clear.  But  whether he’s sick, retired or involved in some scandal it is clear,  he’s turned over the reigns to a new crop of whitewashed foot soldiers.

Journal of a Battling Christian does an excellent job taking White’s blackened lies to task as well as effectively deconstructing White’s signature book “Stranger at the Gate: what it means to be gay and Christian in America”.

Under Mel’s Spell

JBC writes that Justin Lee, whose Gay Christian Network operates as a rubber stamp mouthpiece, for the movement fails repeatedly fully disclose the true lifestyles of gcm activists he promotes.

“One of the things that amazes me most about Justin Lee, founder of the Gay Christian Network, is how he can promote so many “Gay Christian” activists and their books without fully revealing what these people teach, promote and engage in. One of the most frequently referred to is Gay Theology advocate and “Soul Force” activist Mel White. In his book Stranger At The Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America he tells of his first homosexual encounter while he was still married to his wife Lyla. In doing so he describes it as an unavoidable event that he was compelled to engage in that was not due to his sinful lust, but to the years of suppressing his felt “needs.” He goes on to describe it as a religious experience, equating it with the Passion of Christ and subsequently goes onto assert that his encounter with Mark, a gay prostitute, was a “gift from God.”

You read it right. One of the most “revered” false apostles of the gay christian movement described his adulterous sex hook up with a male prostitute as a “gift from God”. Perhaps if Ted Haggard — who committed the same act— would have spun his encounter as a gift from God to release his innate gayness, he too would be a gay christian hero.

JBC asks Lee how they can justify promoting someone with such debased morals as a role model? Its doubtful they will answer. White has already seen to it that they avoid anyone who challenges them based on biblical standards.

Some people have a rather bizarre way of creating change but its just an example of how the homosexual activist movement is brainwashing its recruited youth into their fatalistic all-the-world-hates-us -and-wants-us-to-die ideology.

Jason Conner the “director of programs” at  Soulfarce and a former Mormon and equality rider blogged about his harrowing experience with Christian teens when he went to Minneapolis, in a quest to learn how to “create change” the gay way. The Creating Change conference featured such gay christian luminaries as Yvette Flunder, Nancy Wilson and sponsored by such companies as American Airlines and Wells Fargo Bank. Connor’s account is drowning in irony, but I doubt if he or those who schooled him will ever see it.

Via Americans for Truth about homosexuality, we learn that some of the  “change’ gay activists want to create is

• Using polling, focus groups and emotional arguments to persuade evangelical Christians to ignore Scripture and accept homosexuality-based “rights”;
• Using the tragedy of homosexual youth suicides to shame Christians into stop calling homosexuality sinful;
• Pro-homosexuality lessons for grade school kids (because waiting until middle school is too late to reach them);
• “Non-judgmental condom advocacy for young men in the name of HIV prevention — and even being non-judgmental in “safe sex” training when it comes to bizarre/disgusting “fetish” behaviors

Conner and his company of  ideological changelings went into maximum crisis mode when they discovered that the peaceful group of Christian kids wanted to pray for them. Gasp, what shall we do? These kids are both conservative AND fundamentalist!

“During the final full day of Creating Change, another conference was going on at the convention center next door and was a youth event hosted by a very fundamentalist group of “Christians”. Some of the youth had been instructed by their leaders to proselytize to folks at Creating Change and were encouraged to pray over us, invite us to “accept Christ”, and even suggested laying their hands on us! Here, a whole convention of youth are being told that our beautiful Queer identities are not wonderful, integral parts of our spirits which should be celebrated, but instead should be prayed for.

This kind of spiritual violence is exactly what we aim to dismantle in programs like the Equality Ride and in the other denominational actions Soulforce has participated in since our inception in 1999. Unfortunately, this kind of event is all too common and although I am an advocate for free speech and freedom of religion, I don’t believe in hate speech, homophobia, queerphobia, transphobia, and blatant spiritual violence as was exemplified by this group, and many of the other conservative “Christian” groups out there. This is the same language and intent that has kept me closeted for the first 24 years of my life and, more importantly, the force that encourages Queer people to take our own lives. This is not an issue of speech for me, but instead an issue of hate. When this kind of spiritual violence is perpetuated, people are killed, communities are ripped apart, and countless others are living in silence, fear, and shame.”

Let’s see, Conner accuses the teens of –lets count it out–: (1) hate speech (2) spiritual violence (3) murder (4) community anarchy (5) homophobia (6) queerphobia (7) transphobia and (8) not celebrating the wonders of homosexuality. Additionally, he says fear of the teens kept him locked in the closet for the “first 24 years of his life” which is an amazing feat seeing that Conner is only 26 years old.  Its not clear if any of the teens from the Acquire the Fire convention actually ever encountered the creating changers but, Conner says they were taking no chances.

All of the unnecessary invective hurled by Conner at the Christian teens proves what a farce the conference was. The vision of their religious Practice Spirit, Do Justice set up?

“We will deeply hold, acknowledge and learn from our differences as we engage in the transformational work of finding the overlaps in our stories and experiences. We will create a space where respectful, direct and accountable dialogue can take place during our time together.”

To sum things up, Connor learned at the creating gay change conference that:

A. Christian teenagers who want to pray for gays are dangerous, hateful and are guilty of killing gays and intimidating others into silence.

B. Change means things staying the same. Homosexuals don’t need to be changed even though they hold ironic conferences called “creating change” with the intent on changing everybody else.

ATLANTA – The local Atlanta FOX affiliate broke the shocking news on its six o’clock lead story yesterday that a well known mega church pastor in Atlanta had been slammed with dual lawsuits for coercing two young men into sexual activity with him.

Shortly thereafter, CNN broadcast it to the world. Now, much of the country is ablaze with discussion and controversy over the emerging legal accusations against Bishop Eddie Long and its potential fallout for the prominent leader.

Long has had an extensive history of controversy with homosexuality, taking positions both for and against.

• In April 2002, a lesbian member of New Birth claimed that Long had turned his back on Atlanta black gay community.  Sean Waites, a candidate for Atlanta City Council said after she pressed the issue, Long, refused to return her calls.

• In December 2004, along with the daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr.,  Long angered the gay community by leading thousands of followers in a march against gay marriage and other social ills.

• In July 2006, the counseling department of New Birth with Long’s approval, held a one day seminar on overcoming homosexuality. Entitled “Sexual Orientation and Reorientation: A View from the Cross”, Pastor DL Foster was the featured speaker. Long did not attend the conference.

• In June 2008, Long became embroiled in a controversy with the homosexual pressure group Soulforce. Long granted a meeting with the group and threw a gift bag reception for them while rejecting a similar meeting with GCM Watch. We covered those stories here, here and here. A former seven year member of the church sent Long a letter telling him he was “deeply disturbed” at Long’s embrace of the Soulforce heresy. But in the end, Atlanta’s gay newspaper reported  that Long had expressed an “openness” to gay theology.

According to press reports,  a lawyer for Bishop Long has denied all the charges against him.

Addendum: Some interesting perspective from Endtime Observer.

John Hagee of San Antonio decided to let the gay christian group Soulforce into his church to talk to him about “stopping spiritual violence aganst God’s gay and lesbian children”.

Story and pictures here.

An ultra liberal church (read:apostate) in New York City has forced its liberal pastor to resign for preaching that Jesus Christ is the only way to God.  Rev. Brad Braxton, a young African American, resigned from Riverside Church via email.

“According to dissidents, Dr. Braxton went about that by bringing elements of evangelical tradition into church services. They said he called on worshipers to come forward and bear witness to their faith, favored the gospel choir over the church’s traditional choir, and preached at times what they considered a Riverside heresy: that Jesus and only Jesus was the way to salvation.”

Story and picture here

The Kentucky Baptist Association banned a Texas church youth choir from it annual mission program because the church refused to take a stand against homosexuality in its local congregation. Homosexual members of the Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth  had wanted pictures of homosexual couples to appear in the church directory. After the criticism the church didnt follow through, but still refused to openly say homosexuality was sinful.

Story here

Soulforce seems to have a problem telling the truth. That’s no big surprise, as we saw that with the mega church media scam in July. But just about every aspect of Soulforce (farce?) operations routinely use lies and distortions to shoot their equality vemon further into society. They have been stalking Christian colleges for the last two years.

We’ve reported before on the Equality Riders. They remind me of the door to door magazine hucksters who choose socially confused kids from low income, broken homes, feed them a chunk of lies and then put them on buses to lie and sell magazines. And sometimes other things. Take a look at one of the co-leaders of the group, a exJW. He too likes to engage in lying among other things.

SAFE (Students Against False Equality) posted on their blog that ahead of their protest commencing at Liberty University,  Soulforce released a “media advisory” with patently false information. The statement said (in all caps) ”Liberty to allow Equality Riders on Campus”. Exgaywatch spread the falsehood without even so much as questioning it. 

But the Lynchburg News Advance quoted LU spokesman Johnnie Moore as saying “We told them that they were restricted to the sidewalks.”

The group distributed a news release Monday afternoon stating that “Five young adult Equality Riders will donate gay-affirming Christian books to the Liberty University library and talk with students about safety and acceptance for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students.”

Liberty Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. said the school had not agreed to allow the activists on campus.

“I’m not sure where that information is coming from,” he said. “I don’t know if there’s a misunderstanding, or what.”

Captain Al Thomas with the LPD said he had approved Soulforce’s application to demonstrate but had not said the group would be allowed on campus.

“That’s going to be totally Liberty’s call. It’s their discretion. It’s private property,” Thomas said.

“When they (Soulforce members) are on city property, I’ll make sure they’re safe and orderly. If they decide to venture on campus, then we will help Liberty (University Police Department) with that if needed.”

Now, let’s see if we can figure this out: “allowed on campus”,  ”restricted to sidewalk”? Those two sound as different as east and west. And why would any Christian school want to allow these people access to their students?? That’s like a Jewish synagogue letting a bunch of Nazis teach jewish history to its congregation.

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