“But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn’t rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch.”

And then there are the offers of using homosexual pornography within the therapeutic process to help people understand why they’re struggling.

A reparative therapist called me and said if you’ll come into therapy with me I can cure you of your temptations and attractions 100 percent.

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality.

Exodus is a very large organization. My board of directors is supportive of me as the president of Exodus and are very much involved in my decision-making and those types of things.

Who need to be discipled and to pursue Christ in their life.

For someone to promise a percentage type cure for this issue, for instance I had someone who said they had experienced a 90 percent permanent.

But sin resides, the power of sin resides in our flesh. It will always try us and it was always tempt us and therefore we always need to be submitting our mind, will and emotions to the lordship of Jesus Christ.

I think that’s really where we need to be more consistent as believers.

Certainly anyone who comes to faith in Christ has a new heart and they have an opportunity for new life and that’s a wonderful thing.

I think for believers you know we are helping people pursue holiness through a relationship with Christ.

t’s really an encouragement of discipleship, it looks like anything else that we’re offering to anyone else, any other person struggling with any other issue in their life.

They’re a wonderful and balanced group of people and I’m grateful for their support.

This is the church’s job. This is who we are as the body of Christ to reach out to people who are in need, who are struggling.

Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help.

If we were talking about one of their sin issues we wouldn’t have addressed this at all. I find that hypocritical and inconsistent.

What I know about my relationship with Christ is that as a believer.

As a Baptist minister, I don’t have the right to impose my views on anyone else. If committed gay and lesbian couples want to marry, that is their business; none of us should stand in their way

I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys – and the challenges – of marriage to anyone.

Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.

I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.

I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies. They have demoralized, persecuted, so many, including women, gays, non-believers.

Obviously I’m not there to pick up anybody, but I’m not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

He just plays it so straight-faced. They never talk about the fact that he’s such a huge gay person.

I think the least stereotypical gay character on television is probably Matt LeBlanc on Episodes.