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An Evangelical pastor scheduled to give the benediction at President Obama’s second inaugural ceremony next week withdrew from participating in the event Thursday after uproar over a sermon he gave about homos*xuality.

The Rev. Louie Giglio, a pastor at Passion City Church in Atlanta, Ga., preached a sermon nearly 20 years ago where he stated homos*xuality is a sin, and the only way out is “through the healing power of Jesus.”

On Wednesday, ThinkProgress, a liberal watchdog group, reported that in Giglio’s sermon, “In Search of a Standard — Christian Response to Homos*xuality,” he says homos*xuality is a sin, and that gay people can become straight through Christianity.

“Pastor Giglio spoke the truth,” said CitizenLink’s Gender Issues Analyst Jeff Johnston. “God’s designed marriage between a man and woman as the place for s*xual expression — homos*xual s*xual behavior is outside God’s design and so is a sin. No one is born gay, and people can find freedom from homos*xuality and live according to God’s design. This is basic Christian orthodoxy about human s*xuality.”

Johnston hopes this opens people’s eye’s to where we’ve come in our culture.

“It’s a scary place — you believe God’s truth about human s*xuality and marriage, activists will work to shut you out,” he said. “Moses, Jesus and Paul believed and taught that God’s design for s*xuality was marriage between a man and a woman. According to this Presidential Inaugural Committee, that would disqualify them from giving the benediction.”

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Listen to Louie Giglio’s sermon “In Search of a Standard — Christian Response to Homos*xuality.”

http://www.discipleshiplibrary.com/search....

http://www.citizenlink.com/2013/01/11/evan...

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Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 1:54AM
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oh jenFad

this is the issue --- one has with People that REALLY have NO belief in the CREATOR of Adaam(as) in my opinion...........

history, scholarship and Science tell me and many;

that evangelical european paganChristianity has NOT defined nonEuropean things like, religion and Africans and African Americans and even OUR GREAT LEADER

---Our President Baraaka Hussein Obama ---CORRECTLY, and Disrespected them since at LEAST 1492

------homoWhateverISM is nonSustainable as a LIVING concept......................

------to the Creator of Adaam(as) it is nonSubstainable for the livingPerpetual Growth of the FAMILY of Adaam(as) and humanBeing SURVIVAL

------like the paganChristian slaverAmericana 1492-1864

......AND the

freeSlave CHOICE of 1865...................these things are WRONG, always WRONG

even if Rev. Louie Giglio-- were incorrect or CORRECT, he should have PLENTY of help with INTELLIGENT research, he could ask others, from ANYWHERE

but there is NONE,

the homoWhateverISM is MISLABELED --- is not defined correctly,

AND CANNOT be defined CORRECTLY in secularEuropean thought.....LIKE paganChristianity

so the interPersonal homoRelationship is a nonProcreational habit----it is SIN, a wrong, a affront to Science, Biology and a PROGRAM that does not Function Correctly for the Family of Adaam(as).....it is EVIL.................

Saturday, January 12th 2013 at 9:06AM
powell robert

What did Giglio say in his alleged anti-gay statements? Some of the main points from his mid-1990s were shared by Think Progress:

•Christians must fight against LGBT-equality
•Homos*xuality is a sin
•People aren’t born gay — but even if they are, it’s still a choice like giving into alcoholism, addiction, and overeating
•Gay people are going to hell
•Gay people can become straight through Christianity
The Presidential Inauguration Committee agreed with his decision. They explained in a statement on Thursday, Jan. 10:

"We were not aware of Pastor Giglio's past comments at the time of his selection and they don't reflect our desire to celebrate the strength and diversity of our country at this Inaugural."

One of Pastor Giglio’s followers, Ruth Malhotra comments after learning her pastor has declined the President’s invitation:

“The message sent by homos*xual activists who opposed Giglio’s participation in President Obama’s inauguration is clear: Unless you embrace, applaud, and advocate for the homos*xual lifestyle and same-s*x marriage, your views, your voice, and even your work on behalf of the poor and suffering are not welcome in the public square,”

http://www.examiner.com/article/inaugurati...

Tuesday, January 15th 2013 at 12:15AM
Jen Fad

@ Robert,

I hear you loud and clear!!! It's definitely not a SustainableLife for PerpetualGrowth of the family. However, I think the Rev should have defended his message rather than pulling out. It seems cowardly to me.

I do believe some of the GLBT'S are born that way, but Jesus said to Nicodemus, "You MUST Be Born Again."

That's the remedy for people of the GLBT'S and if I'm asked to pray at an presidential inauguration 20 to 30 years from now, that's what I will say.

I guess the Good Rev decided to invoke his 5th amendment rights, eh?

Tuesday, January 15th 2013 at 11:08AM
Jen Fad

John 3:7 New King James Version (NKJV)

Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’

John 3:7 The Message (MSG)
7-8 “So don’t be so surprised when I tell you that you have to be ‘born from above’—out of this world, so to speak. You know well enough how the wind blows this way and that. You hear it rustling through the trees, but you have no idea where it comes from or where it’s headed next. That’s the way it is with everyone ‘born from above’ by the wind of God, the Spirit of God.”

Tuesday, January 15th 2013 at 11:12AM
Jen Fad

now ain't we allz god's churrin!

Well we still have Bishop Jakes, Rev. AL and the Mississippii Mass Choir....

Tuesday, January 15th 2013 at 11:18AM
Cynthia Merrill Artis

and

Mary... Mary... "GO GET IT"!!!
Tuesday, January 15th 2013 at 11:19AM
Cynthia Merrill Artis

@Cynthia

Thank God for MaryMary & Go Get It , eh!! My all time favorite is Shackles.

Wednesday, January 16th 2013 at 9:16AM
Jen Fad

Irma,

Did you listen to the clip at the link? The Good Rev said that he didn't believe GLBT'S were born this way which is his opinion, but he coward out without attempting to defend what he said years ago. Perhaps he didn't want to lose his 501C status-Ha!!!

Wednesday, January 16th 2013 at 9:20AM
Jen Fad

yESROBERT ESPECIALLY SINCE THIS CAME AS A RESULT OF HIS QUOTING THE BIBLE W-O-R-D FOR W-O-R-D...

SURE GOES TO HELP BETTER UNDERSTAND WHY ISLAM IS THE FASTEST GROWING RELIGION IN AMERICA TODAY. (SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA

IT IS A SHAME HOW IT IS NOT TOUCHED(THIS MINISTER CAN BE SEEN ON THE LAST WORD@MSNBC, DOING) THE EXACT QUOTE FROM THE BIBLE THIS MINISTER MADE WHICH REMINDS ME THESE THINGS...

!. ALL OF TH =E BOOKS IN TODAY'S BLBLE HAVE ON PURPOSE LEFT OUT THE ONES THAT SHOW WOMEN AS NOT SLEEPING THEIR WAY TO BEING RECOGNIZED AS WORTY TO BE IN THE BIBLE.
2. MARY M HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A PROSTUTE BECAUSE IT HAD TO BE LEFT OUT WOMEN LIKE HER EVEN EXISTED BACK IN THE DAY...SHE WAS A VERY EDUCATED WOMAN OF GREAT FINANCIAL WORTH...SO MUCH A WOMAN OF WEALTH SHE HELPED FINANCE JESUS TO BE ABLE TO NOT STARVE OR BE HOMELESS AS HER TRAVELED SPREADING HIS TEACINGS...

THOSE WHO KNOW BETTER, DO BETTER IS THE QUESTION. (NUP/SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA

# PLEASE PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THIS ALSO...THE COMMENT I MADE I DID NOT JUST COME UP WITH OUT OF THIN AIR IS CAME FROM A SERIES ON H2 CALLED "BOOKS BANED FROM THE BIBLE" AND THIS PROGRAM IS ABOUT THE FINDINGS OF , YES BELIEVE IT OR NOT, BIBLE STUDY PROFESSORS OF CHRISTIAN AND JEEWISH FAITHS AND TANGABLE DISCOVERY OF ARCHOLOGIST' SHOWING PROOFS OF THIS SINCE IT IS BASED ON THINGS THEY HAVE FOUND SORT OF LIKE THE PAPERS LIKE THE DEAD SEA SCROLS AND NOW AVALIABLE ON E NET, A BLOG BY NONE OTEHR THEN JEN.(SMILE)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA