“We are everywhere.” That’s been the motto for those who want as many LGBT people as possible to come out as a way of promoting LGBT equality.
This week, Jennifer Knapp proved that we are, indeed, everywhere.
Knapp, for those who don’t know, is an award-winning Christian musical artist. She has sold more than 1 million albums with her three releases to date. She won the Dove Award for Best New Artist and later later scored a Grammy nod in 2002 and another Dove nomination in 2003.
She’s a big deal. And this week, she confirmed that she is gay.
Knapp told Christian Today that she knows some of her fans will be shocked by her coming out, and some will feel betrayed, and while she doesn’t consider herself an LGBT activist, she obviously feels that you don’t have to be an activist to want to live an open, honest life:
“I’m just a normal human being who’s dealing with normal everyday life scenarios. As a Christian, I’m doing that as best as I can. The heartbreaking thing to me is that we’re all hopelessly deceived if we don’t think that there are people within our churches, within our communities, who want to hold on to the person they love, whatever sex that may be, and hold on to their faith. It’s a hard notion.”
Isn’t that really what we all want?
I’ve written a blog post about Knapp and several other Christian singers who have announced that their homosexuality. I welcome your thoughts about it:
https://blogs.pioneerlocal.com/religion/2010/04/christian_singers_come_out_of.html#more
This is sooo true. I am a christian and although i am not gay I was speaking with my friend who also is a christian and went thru almost the similar case… and as christians we are taught that it is a sin and that all gay people are going to hell…. but we fail to grasp the way we should handle this situation and handle it properly. I was there for my friend i loved her and left my door wide open for her to come and feel free to talk to me and although she no longer is in a same sex relationship she said at the time she was going through it she just didnt feel right like something was wrong and she realized that it was not the life God wanted her to live… now this may not be the case with everyone but what if I came at her the way so many christians do… w/o the true love of Christ. No one is perfect and everyone has some struggle the are dealing with and no one struggle is worse or bigger than any other. We are to love everyone no matter what we think is right or wrong. Why can we not see eachother as Christ sees us… w unfailing love… as I write this I speak of myself as well. He sees us as the Apple of His eye. Yes he hurts when we “mess up” but none the less He Loves Us!
“and as christians we are taught that it is a sin and that all gay people are going to hell…. but we fail to grasp the way we should handle this situation and handle it properly. ”
Let me say it one time: you are an idiot. You couldn’t think your way out of a paper bag. Do you also believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny maybe? Virgin birth, yeah right. I’ve got some beach front property in Arizona too, dumbass. Get a clue, and then get the hell outta here.
Uh if you check her present history she’s not that big of a deal.
She left the business a while back because the industry found out she is “whatever the politically correct term for homosexual is.”
1Corinthians 6:9-10 “Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” 1Corinthians 6:18-20 “Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside the body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.” Jesus didn’t die a brutal death just so we could live the way we want to as Christians. He paid a high price for our lives; don’t you think we should live the way He wants us to live? Honor what Jesus did for you on the cross with the way you live your life; by His standards, not yours.
I have a lot more admiration for Jennifer Knapp than singer “Bisexual Tara Holloway” and her guilt ridden Sins to Confess CD.
CG values a book of fairy tales and legends, all fantastically impossible in rational terms, over real humans in his real world.
Too bad CG can’t step back and see reality in a more realistic and truthful way, instead of relying on superstition and magic.
CG and his ilk are a sickness upon this earth…sick with superstition and hateful, evil malice of those who would try to control others lives based on their book of magic and superstition.
Very well put C.G.! I’m so glad that someone will step up and say what people need to hear. I’m so tired of people blurring the lines between what is right and what is wrong. No wonder people are so confused about homosexuality, Adulltery, suicide and so many other sins that present obstacles to us living the kind of life that God intended for us to live. No-one wants to give God credit in this world because we can’t connect all the dots, we don’t have all the answers to the pain in life that comes in the form of death, desparity and hurts that we must all face. Some people think that because we can’t see the full perspective, it must just be a fairy tale or a myth. “Blessed are those who have not seen the answers and still believe”. This world is currently drowning in sin. We justify it, conform to it and it changes us. Thats why so many people including Tom, believe that anyone expecting us to live after God’s way must be a radical or an extremist. I’d say that the one who can live in “the real world” such as this and still follow close to God’s way is the one who sees it rationally. It’s tragic when someone in the spotlight, such as Jennifer Knapp falls to sin. The amount of people who see her and are confused themselves, young people that have questions themselves but do not know the answers and help that God gives in this area. I hate to think about how the enemy can use this to cause people to fall themselves.
@Comment: What a bizarre thing to say. Point of reference: Tara Holloway – Sins to Confess.
Hey Voice,
Why do you publish comments like those of G.C. and J.G.? Arguments that weak do not qualify as debate, and besides, this is an LGBT publication anyway, so why give voice (and quite feeble voice at that) to your foes?
Chris: We believe in free speech. We aren’t going to censor comments just because we disagree with them or don’t like what they have to say. Besides, I figure most people like that, if we just let them keep talking, they are going to make our case for us better than we could do it if we tried to keep them from being heard.
You know the old saying, give ’em enough rope, and they’ll hang themselves.
@Tammye: Before they hang all of us, I hope.
Yeah, what’s up with that Tara Holloway comment? Sounds like there’s some kind of issue there that runs deeper than the music. Is it because she’s Bi-sexual? Otherwise, why would you comment like that?