‘I never wanted to be gay’: Christian musician comes out in letter to fans
- Trey Pearson is the lead singer of Christian rock band Everyday Sunday
- On Tuesday he released a letter to his fans where he came out as gay
- Admitted that he didn't want to be gay for a long time as he was scared of what God and the people he loved would think of him. He is currently married to woman.
- Says that since accepting who he is he has felt as if a weight he has been carrying his whole life has been lifted
- Says he hopes that coming out won't affect his career but knows some churchs and festivals won't ask him to come back. He has however lined up his first gig at a pride festival (the article however points out that several other Christian artists who have come out as gay such as Ray Boltz, Anthony Williams, Jennifer Knapp, Vicky Beeching have seldom been played on Christian radio stations since)
- After the letter said his family only responded with love. "My dad just showed up at my door and hugged me for a long time, which I really needed,” he said."
Source (includes full letter)
good for him! i was forced out of my church due to supporting the lgbt community and questioning my own sexuality so i know how hard it can be. hopefully he gets a lot of love and support from his family and fans.
i'm sure she's had better days
Edited at 2016-06-02 11:58 am (UTC)
get that gay coin tho. better him than Debbie and Nick
Like I am not a big fan of celebrating christmas or my bday and I think I got that from them
you're just being a hateful little shit under the guise of being über woke and its v transparent
I know the church CAN be accepting and loving, so i hope he is backed up by at least a portion of his religious community. I also hope his situation with his wife is resolved nicely, that's a tricky one.
Christianity scares me more than it comforts me. seeing dangerous people do terrible things, receive forgiveness, then go out and do more terrible things made my heart hurt. I don't think that's how forgiveness and repentance and grace truly work but even if there is a G-d and those people are judged for their misdeeds, I can't survive in their presence in this lifetime.
religion fucked me up to the point where when I switched religions I had fucking panic attacks about switching and now I don't know what the fuck I believe.
religious figures made this guy think being gay was so awful he spent his entire fucking life until now pretending to be someone he's not, ruining his own life and dragging his poor wife down with him. and I can't even fucking blame him for marrying a woman, because if you're told that pretending to be normal eventually makes you normal/that no one will love you if you don't do The Right Thing, it's so fucking hard not to cave.
idek I'm really emotional about this shit I'm so fucking done w Christianity
Agreed. When you're told time and time again from birth that being gay is not a legitimate identity, and that homosexual inclinations can be overcome with prayer and diligent churchgoing... It can feel nearly impossible to break free.
If you ever feel the need to, my inbox is open for you.
Yup. I went to a Church of Christ private university (it actually made me agnostic if not atheist after I took our 3 required religion courses) and there was one guy in our department who everyone knew was gay. He ended up marrying a girl from our school and they're still together, but I guess she is aware that he's gay, but he has to keep it under wraps because his family and church will more than likely ostracize him.
This girl knew what she was getting into, but I still feel bad for both of them. At least they're best friends? But I know that poor guy will go through his life not accepting who he is and that will lead to an explosive mid-life crisis. Plus, he kinda looks like Ted Cruz so this man has the deck stacked against him.
in any case, i'm agnostic now...my hubby as well (he even went to a catholic school growing up) because we just don't see a need to go to church every sunday, everyone spewing the same shiet, but be very hypocritical later on. we have a relative who is super religious but fuck, she's just as wicked and feels justified for whatever she did wrong to the family. i don't bash anyone with their beliefs as long as you don't shove your beliefs down my throat and say otherwise. i've seen what happens to families. my family was broken up b/c my uncle ended up with iglesia ni cristo and he just would not stop spewing that his religion is better than catholicism (it's really not and it really doesn't make a difference because it's the same damn bible they use, but they say otherwise). put it this way he said he had to ask permission to go to his own mother's funeral. i said WTH that's your mother and if you have to ask permission to go to a damn catholic church that's not a good religion (he ended up showing up to the funeral, late, and sat in the very back. same thing when we buried her). but at least he showed up...he's sort of ostracized from the family (mainly the older sister), but my uncle knows that we'll support him as long as he doesn't go overboard with the religion to us (and i think he really appreciates that b/c he invites us over often).
I feel you, I don't regret cutting ties with them at all.
Edited at 2016-06-02 12:50 pm (UTC)