WATCH: WWE Legend Pat Patterson Comes Out as Gay

The 73-year-old wrestling legend revealed he’s been living in the closet more than 50 years.

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Jase Peeples

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Pastor Says Parents Should 'Alienate' Gay Kids, 'Turn Them Over To Satan'
A California pastor apparently thinks telling parents of gay children to “alienate” them and “turn them overt to Satan” is sound advice.

John MacArthur of the Grace Community Church in the San Fernando Valley responded to a question from a listener on his “Grace to You” show who asked how to react to an adult child coming out.

“If that adult child professes Christ, claims to be a Christian, then that becomes an issue for confrontation of the sternest and strongest kind because that falls under Matthew 18,” which discusses dealing with sin in the church. “If they profess to be a Christian, you have to alienate them, you have to separate them. You can’t condone that; it’s inconsistent with the profession of Christ. So, you isolate them; you don’t have a meal with them; you separate yourself from them. You turn them over to Satan, as it were as scripture says.”

MacArthur does clarify that his advice is for parents of Christians. Parents of non-believers, he says, should bring the Gospel “compassionately, directly, confrontationally” to “expose that sin and all other sins, and call that person to salvation and repentance.”

Anabaptist author Benjamin Corey of the religious blog Patheos challenged MacArthur’s statements as hypocritical, since he targeted sexual “sinners” while disregarding others, like the greedy, idolators and drunks.

Wrote Corey:

I’m just glad that I worship Jesus –- not MacArthur (or even Paul himself!). Jesus is the one who religious conservatives hated because instead of shunning, he had meals with people. The drunks. The hookers. The swindlers. You know, the kind of people we’re supposed to shun. This is precisely why we are to make Jesus — and nothing else — the center of our faith and practice. Because it is through Jesus we find that sharing a meal, not alienation, is what love looks like.

MacArthur’s remarks might not come as a surprise to those familiar with his sermons. Back in 2012, MacArthur condemned the Democratic party for supporting what he refers to as the “homosexual revolution.” This “revolution” came about, he claimed, because God abandoned the nation and “unleashed on the world the horror of AIDS.” At the time, he defended this position as “love speech.”

(Hat tip, Towleroad)

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Thousands take to the streets as Tel Aviv comes alive for gay pride

The LGBTI community, straight supporters and celebrities enjoy the climax of Tel Aviv’s gay pride celebrations

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liamj

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Big Freedia Is Determined To Break Into Mainstream, Kill The Twerking Trend

Big Freedia, noted gender-bending Queen of Bounce, is poised to take over the mainstream industry with her debut album, “Just Be Free“, dropping early next week. And according to the Washington Post, she’s also poised to take over 2013′s most hated web trend: Twerking.

“I’m over twerking,” Freedia told the Post at the 2014 New Orleans Jazz Festival in May. “We don’t twerk in New Orleans. We shake, wiggle, wobble, werk, bend over, bust over. We do it all. Twerking is just one of the words in our vocabulary. We’ve been twerking for years, but that’s just one of the words in the vocabulary of Bounce.”

Freedia is currently enjoying the success of her Fuse TV reality show Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce, currently the network’s highest-rated show. “[The show has] definitely changed my life to where a lot more people know me,” she told USA Today this week. “But it’s changed me to be more professional and learn the TV world and how all of that operates … and just the doors it can open for you, the connections and people that you meet.”

“It’s good music, and everybody can relate,” she says of her debut album’s track lineup. “Everybody can enjoy and dance and have a good time to it. It also goes along with (my) personality and the hard work I put in, just to push my music and make it available to more of a wide variety of (fans).”

Below, check out the video for “Explode”, Big Freedia’s first single from the upcoming album “Just Be Free”, available on iTunes beginning June 17. You can stream the entire album for free on SoundCloud.

Matthew Tharrett

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Baby Great White Surprises Paddleboarders at Manhattan Beach: WATCH

Julian Ward

www.towleroad.com/2014/06/baby-great-white-surprises-paddleboarders-at-manhattan-beach-watch.html

Op-ed: Forgiving My Father and Finding Miraculous Peace for Us Both

The author of Street Child: A Memoir was left homeless but eventually came to forgive his dad after serious soul-searching and self-reflection.

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Justin Reed Early

www.advocate.com/commentary/2014/06/13/op-ed-forgiving-my-father-and-finding-miraculous-peace-us-both