Nick Palacios
struggled to get his conservative Pentecostal parents to accept him as a gay
evangelical Christian for nearly a decade before his family found a common
ground through faith…..as an
openly gay seminarian, the 29-year-old hopes to carve out a similar acceptance
for other gays in the broader evangelical community through his role as
president of the nation’s first LGBT student club sanctioned by a major
evangelical seminary. “It quickly became apparent to me that I was going to be
OK and that I wasn’t going to have to forsake my faith for my sexuality,”
Palacios said of his struggle for acceptance……Fuller’s stance has created
ripples in the larger world of Christian colleges and seminaries, where a
growing number of gay evangelical students are asserting their dual identities
with underground clubs and nascent political activism. Last year, for example, a
group called the Biola Queer Underground was quashed by Biola University, a
small, conservative Christian school in nearby Orange County.
This fall, the
LGBT group plans on staging rallies to combat Biola’s longstanding policy on
homosexuality — that sexual relationships are reserved for heterosexual
marriage — and address ….To Read More…..
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