Megachurch Pastor Comes Out Of Closet

[babsbunny]

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/25568419/detail.html

Posted: 5:01 pm EDT October 29, 2010Updated: 7:48 am EDT October 30, 2010
ROCKDALE COUNTY, Ga. -- The pastor of a Rockdale County megachurch has publicly announced he is gay.

Jim Swilley, bishop of Conyers’ Church in the Now, said he hopes his coming out will change attitudes toward homosexuality.

“I know a lot of straight people think it is a choice. It is not,” Swilley told Channel 2’s Diana Davis.


Swilley, 52, founded the church 25 years ago. He seemed the stereotypical picture of a pastor, with four kids and a wife who doubled as his associate pastor. But Swilley said he's known he was gay since he was little boy. He said his wife, Debye, also knew his secret from the start.

“I think some women marry gay men because they really think they can change them,” Swilley said.

[rsmith6621]

1. Icredible How Many Live Their Lives in A Lie

....Till one day the same God they worship finally burst their bubble and finally the world can see their hypocrisy...


But the real shame/oddity is that they never leave their conservative political principles its like God only does half the job.

[tabasco]

8. These charlatans don't worship God

They use God to make money. They don't really believe that shit they preach.

[xchrom]

2. There's something immeasurably sad about that story. Nt

[Ian David]

3. He wasn't even caught snorting meth off a male hooker or anything! n/t

[denpat1]

4. so he's lived a life in sin and lies

Will he resign? Nope, he will be "forgiven" by his flock and they'll all vote R anyway.

[madmax]

5. Excellent now come out and use

that mega church to stop using religion to hate - educate and spread love and understanding.

[mucifer]

6. I'm curious, the article doesn't say whether or not he preached as a homophobe. nt

[Ian David]

7. Here's something from the anti-gay bigots...

Via video, a litany of lies from Bishop Jim Swilley
19 October 2010 115 Comments

CONYERS, GA – Bishop Jim Swilley, the nephew of deceased sexual predator Earl Paulk, has made his big announcement. There’s so much lying, inconsistencies, propaganda, half truths, false teaching and the likes in the video he released, its stunning. One thing is sure: satan has planted ministers in the church and they are yoked with an irrevocable agenda to dismantle truth and preach another gospel in its place. The gospel of sensuality. The Apostle Jude warned of us people like Swilley:

For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord. Jude 4

So did the Spirit of God through the Apostle Paul:

The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 1Tim 4:1

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And have you noticed that every time one of these false teachers make their move and publicly vomit out their blasphemy, their supporters immediately began the “love them and don’t judge them” campaign?

More:
http://www.gcmwatch.com/5585/via-video-a-litany-of-lies-from-bishop-jim-swilley

“Love them and don’t judge them” Is so *not* Christian, right?


See also:

Bishop dogged by abuse allegations dies
March 29, 2009

Bishop Earl Paulk, a charismatic preacher brought down by a series of sex scandals, has died. He was 81.

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Paulk founded the Chapel Hill Harvester Church in Decatur, a suburb of Atlanta. It quickly grew to become one of the first megachurches in the country. Paulk also had his own television show.
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But his success as a preacher was overshadowed time and again by allegations of sexual impropriety.

One allegation ended in a civil suit that was settled out of court in 2003. The accuser said Paulk molested her when she was a child.

More:
http://articles.cnn.com/2009-03-29/us/paulk.obit_1_bishop-earl-paulk-blog-post-sexual-impropriety?_s=PM:US