Let’s talk honestly for a moment not as an organization writing a press release, but as friends who care about our community and the truth.
Someone who once stood right beside us who preached affirmation loudly and boldly has now taken a public stance that LGBTQ+ love is unnatural and doomed to fail. And he’s saying this from a platform that we helped build.
Yes. We.
This community that he now condemns is the very one that showed up to his services, sowed into his ministry, and lined his pockets with years of LGBTQ tithing. We championed his leadership. We believed in his calling. We opened doors and hearts for him.
And we will not sit by quietly while he or anyone else disrespects the families we have built.
Our marriages are real.
Our relationships are real.
And the children we raise are thriving in homes full of love, joy, stability, and pride.
Two moms or two dads does not make a family broken.
A trans parent does not make a home unstable.
Love does not become invalid because someone lacks the imagination to recognize it.
If anything, our love has had to be stronger built in a world that keeps trying to legislate it out of existence.
So yes, questions now need answers:
Will he also renounce the title of Bishop the very title conferred upon him by the affirming movement he now rejects?
Will the fellowship that consecrated him step in with accountability?
Or is he willing to tear down only the parts of his story that feel uncomfortable to hold?
Here’s the truth:
There is a long history of church leaders harming LGBTQ+ people and then expecting us to take the high road while they walk away clean.
But not this time.
We refuse to let our community be used as a stepping stone for someone else’s spiritual confusion.
We refuse to absorb the hurt while someone else gets applause for “finding the truth.”
We refuse to apologize for surviving what was meant to destroy us.
He has every right to navigate his personal struggle.
But that struggle does not give him permission to call our families counterfeit.
Faith that harms isn’t holy, it is harm in a robe.
And we are not dressing it up anymore.
Faith that harms isn’t holy, it is the very thing we need saving from.
Faith that harms isn’t holy, it is a gospel stripped of grace.
We hope he finds peace. Truly.
But his journey is his own cross to carry.
We will not carry it for him especially if the weight is meant to crush us.
We are a people who have already endured the heartbreak of exclusion and chose to love anyway. We are not returning to a wilderness we fought our way out of.
We stand firm in this truth:
If God is love then love still wins.
Our love still wins.
Our families still win.
Our future still wins.
We are staying right here in the victory we built together.
