A Message To The Church

Written By: Bishop Scott Grey, DTh.

I want to talk to the church. Folks we are going to have to stop excluding the lgbtq folk! We’re going to have to accept the reality they too are the least of these that the scriptures talk about. We’re going to have to realize God loves them too. We’re are going to have to realize they are not broken, they are not nasty or unclean. They are exactly who God made them to be. Yes they are born lgbtq. It’s not a choice or preference. It’s a choice to remain ignorant and bigoted.

We need to stop being gatekeepers! Judge not, the Bible says. Love thy neighbor. Not judge thy neighbor. Being gay is not a moral issue it’s biological!!!! They too love God. They too serve God and yes they are Christians! The very first thing some of you think of is gay sex. First thing!!! Only thing! Well straight folks have sex too. People say oh they are freaks and do all this freaky stuff, well you think some of you straight people aren’t freaks and don’t do freaky things? I mean all of us got here how? By two people doing freaky stuff! Let’s be real. What you think your parents did to get you here while having sex say oh yes, praise the Lord let’s sing a gospel song while having sex? Give me a break! I’m not trying to be graphic but I’m trying to make a point. It’s alright for you to do freaky stuff but not them right? Love is love people!!!! Lgbtq folks have feeling just like you do! They have desires just like you do! They work and pay taxes just like you do! They have homes and pay their way just like you do! So stop treating them differently just because they love differently than you do! They are not threat to you or the church! You want to talk about who the threat is? It’s conservative republicans pastors and church leaders and also conservative Republican elected leaders. It’s not the LGBT community. It’s not drag queens! Look at the cover up of the thousands of sexual abuse cases that came out not too long ago within the southern Baptist Church! Let’s not forget about the Roman Catholic priest either. And no, it’s not everybody in the Roman Catholic Church and just like it’s not everybody in any of the churches that’s not what I’m saying. But I am talking about thousands of cases that were covered up in the southern Baptist Church. Every time you turn on the TV or read in the news every time you hear about some sexual abuse or rape it’s always conservative Republicans! A little bit off topic, but it still proves my point, but just like every time that there is a school shooting or a mass shooting in other places and even the three attempts on Trump’s life guess what? THEY WERE ALLLLLLLL CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICANS!!!! Not one case of any LGBT people ever in the history of the world doing anything inappropriate in the bathrooms to harm someone!

So again the LGBT people are not a threat to anyone. The threat is coming from the right. Thousands of LGBT people have been bully to suicide by the religious conservative Republicans. Thousands have been murdered by, you guessed it by conservative Republicans. The scripture says people like this will kill you and think that they do God a favor! These are people’s lives! We’re talking about human beings here! So we got to do better than this! Because what we’re currently doing is no longer working! People are leaving the churches in droves because of what I call the evangelical of fundamentalist, new fivefold ministry, which includes fear, mongering, hatred, judgment, condemnation, and exclusion. You see what the right has done is they have fearmonger people by rage farming them. Telling them that they’re coming for your children, they’re coming for your marriage. They always invent this big bad boogie monster that supposed to be coming to destroy the fabric of society that never comes! Never! It’s all made up! It’s a lie!

So we’ve got to change how we are showing up in the world. We’ve got to stop being modern-day Pharisees and stop being gatekeepers. We instead must offer a hand and say you are welcome at the Lord’s table. You are welcome to get involved in leadership in the church. And yes, God calls, LGBT people as pastors, ministers, and bishops. And for those you don’t like what I’m saying, you need to stop singing 75% of the music that you sing in church that was written by gay folks! Then let’s see how you get your praise on!

I said all of that to say this: we face a eminent danger, and eminent threat in the United States of America. Donald Trump and Republicans want to turn this country into a right wing fascist religious theocracy! Project 2025, agenda 47, the seven mountains mandate, dominionism, and white Christian nationalism is straight out of the playbook of Adolf Hitler in 1938! All of this has been put together by the heritage foundation, which is nothing more than a terrorist organization. Remember, the scripture says many will come in my name and shall deceive many! I’ll end with this; people have said to me all these people are Christians. And I’m here to tell you they are not! They are Christian in name only! Here’s how I know: the scripture says my sheep know my voice and another’s voice they will not follow, but what do these people do? They turned around and followed the straight up, devil himself! You cannot follow Donald Trump and Jesus the Christ at the same time! The scripture says you cannot serve two masters. So yes, I said it, they are not Christians! They are not saved! We’ve got to all come together people because if we don’t, if we don’t come together in unity, as the scripture says, then it truly is over and democracy will be dead. So what will you do? The choice is yours….

Bishop Scott Grey, DTh