Bishop Who Voted against Gay Clergy Comes Out as Gay

“Evangelical Lutheran Bishop Kevin Kanouse—who opposed both same-sex marriage and permitting gay clergy—wrote an emotional letter to church leaders this week, explaining his decision to come out,” Nick Duffy of Pink News writes.

Internalised homophobia is the worst kind of homophobias as it makes a gay person actually believe that he or she is bad for being gay. But for this pastor, there was light in the long, dark tunnel:

Throughout our church’s conversations about human sexuality, I was torn. I knew the scriptures that condemn homosexuality and I could quote them well. Yet, I began to recognise the grace of the Gospel and to understand that God loves me just as I am.

Being gay is not a sin. My sin was a lifetime of denying that the God who created me, also accepts me and loves me. It was faithlessness.

Many others are still trapped in the dark hating themselves.