AMERICAN IDOL CLAY AIKEN IS ANOTHER GAY "CHRISTIAN"?

American Idol Clay Aiken Is Another Gay "Christian"?

By Ken Silva

Apprising Ministries

Unrepentant Homosexual Practice Is As Much A Sin As Adultery

Another born again practicing homosexual "Christian"; apparently so. People magazine informs is, "Clay Aiken is no longer the charmingly awkward, self-confessed 'dork' who came in second on 2003's second season of American Idol." [1] No indeed, "the 27-year-old, Southern Baptist-bred singer" dropped a bit of a bomb shell in "Clay Aiken: I'm a Gay Dad":

following through on a promise he made to himself as a new dad: to publicly acknowledge that he's gay... Aiken says... "Whether it be having a child out of wedlock, or whether it be simply being a homosexual, it's going to be a lot," ... The born-again Christian singer also reveals how he told his mother Faye he's gay four years ago. [2] (Online source)

Aiken would also later place his "Christian testimony" on national television when he discussed the issue with Diane Sawyer, where to my eye he comes off as rather flippant concerning his sin. And this news about another "born-again Christian" who's a practicing homosexual coming right on the heels of "Gospel" singer Ray Boltz who made a rather shocking announcement in that he is also unrepentant in his own practice of the sin of homosexuality.

Expel The Immoral From Among Other Christians

As a pastor my concern in bringing this before the Body of Christ is not in any way meant to belittle Boltz or Aiken. Rather it is to show you another of the tragic effects of the current Emerging rebellion against Sola Scriptura. Here we have two men who claim to be Christians but still remain content to live in open, unrepentant, and blatant defiance of God's Word. And yet it appears rather obvious that we're witnessing just the tip of an iceberg of apostasy so we have not heard the last of these kinds of expressions of Christianity, which clearly contradict sound Biblical teaching.

Sadly, the growing acceptance of the Emerging Church within evangelicalism has much to do with this wrong kind of tolerance for the sin of homosexuality within the Christian Church. Once "churches" like Metropolitan Community Church were rightly largely outside even the mainline denominations. But as the Cult of Liberal Theology killed more and more of these groups we have come to see an acceptance of unrepentant sinners grow to the point where the Episcopal Church even put them in charge of other churches evidenced by Practicing Homosexual Bishop Gene Robinson: "This Is Where God Is Leading The Whole Church".

What blasphemy it is to say that God is leading His Church to embrace what He has clearly called sinful behavior. And it gets worse than Robinson's mere speculation. We even have the "gay-affirming" Emerging Church "pastor" Jay Bakker who shares his direct revelation from the Lord on the subject. You see Bakker's "god" told him personally that the practice of homosexuality is no longer sin:

"The more I follow grace, the more I'm drawn to him [God], the more I'm willing to stand up for people being persecuted," says Jay today. "This sounds so churchy, but I felt like God spoke to my heart and said '[homosexuality] is not a sin.' " [3]

But such is the sad state of affairs in the Emergent Church and postevangelicalism. You see, because they have rejected the final authority of God's Word, ala Emergent icon Rob Bell, in favor of highly subjective experience-which Bell refers to as "mystery"-they have no real way to test whether these existential feelings and impressions really are from God. Therefore they have no choice but to be "tolerant" of anyone who claims they are Christian regardless of their lifestyle or doctrine.

As a matter of fact in a phone conversation Tony Jones personally confirmed to me that he stands by the following quote from his interview in Relevant magazine, which I use in Tony Jones And The Emergent Church: "Christian" Gay Is A-Ok:

[In Emergent Village w]e have everything you could imagine. We have Texas Baptists who don't let women preach, and we have lesbian mainline pastors in New England… We haven't yet found that there's anything that justifies us breaking fellowship with somebody else who loves and is trying to follow Jesus. 

Kind of sounds like the ever pragmatic Rick Warren doesn't it. AM has shown Warren accepts apostate Roman Catholicism as a legitimate expression of the historic orthodox Christian faith in "Bible Scholar" Rick Warren Reversing The Reformation; and what is more, he's also on record emphatically declaring: "I see absolutely zero reason in separating my fellowship from anybody". [4] You need to understand that these people-pleasers do sound good but let us not be taken in by them because the Lord has already told us there's also a good reason why; they are speaking from the flesh - from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. [5] (1 John 4:5)

But how much better we do things in the Church they way the Lord has instructed us - Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. "Expel the wicked man from among you." [6] Or maybe you think that Rick Warren, Tony Jones, and the postliberal cult of the Emerging Church really are smarter than the inspired Apostle Paul. By the way; whatever happened to the man above who was expelled from fellowship with other Christians? It might be worth your time to look it up and see what happens when the Church actually does things God's way.

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If the news about Clay Aiken Posted On: 10/06/08 07:39:06 PM Age 35, VA Comes as a bit of a shock, someone must have been living under a rock.Most people already knew he was gay. Aiken to be Gay Posted On: 10/02/08 11:29:50 AM Age 48, OH This topic I believe is just one more indication of what will be driving this country and the "churchs of tolerance" to one day deal sharply with those that would dare stand on God's word as the final authority.Can you say itching ears? How can one say," I am gay and I am a follower of Jesus",or,"I hate gays and am a follower of Him"? Those that lead and live by His commands and not man's can see it for what it is. 2 Tim 1-5 comes to mind. God forgive them MORE ARTICLES LIKE YOURS NEEDED ON THIS SITE! Posted On: 09/30/08 03:41:58 PM Age 39, FL Thank you! It's time Christians start fearing the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth instead of fearing man and doing what's right in their own eyes! God does not instruct us to be man pleasers. He does not instruct us to form humanist-socialist coalitions, but the complete opposite. We are to call out false teachers/preachers as the Bible instructs, but we are not to make judgements about their possible salvation (only God can acknowledge this)through genuine repentance, etc. Pray for genuine repentance from them, and pray that they apologize to the masses they are misleading. Their day is coming Posted On: 09/30/08 11:41:56 AM Age 62, MO “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him. But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.” (Ecclesiastes 8:11-13). Proclaiming oneself to be "Christian", in and of itself, means nothing. George Cancilla One Slight Difference in Comparing Aiken with Boltz Posted On: 09/30/08 09:57:45 AM Age 21, NC First off, your article is right on the money when it comes to those promoted in the Christian world living a life contrary to the faith professed. About the only thing I could point out is that (at this is from personal experience) while I wasn't surprised about Aiken, I was with Boltz. exegesis Posted On: 09/30/08 09:23:25 AM Age 22, MN If you give a solid and unbiased exegesis of every passage used to claim that homosexuality is a sin, then people might actually listen to you. -Dan Smith 'Christian' gay?? Posted On: 09/30/08 04:45:28 AM Age 58, AR I had no idea the EMC would go this far in people's lives. I should have known, though, because if the doctrine is not right, it leads down the wrong road, always!!! As far as sin will take the lost, the EMC will take the Christian.