Anthony Venn-Brown Gay Pentecostal Preacher pt1

Anthony Venn-Brown is Australia's first openly gay Pentecostal. He was a leading minister in the Australian Assemblies of God Church before resigning his post after coming out. He currently attends Hillsong in Sydney.

He is the author of A Life of Unlearning which won the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Business Association Literary award in 2004. The book was revised and updated in 2007.

In 2007 Anthony Venn-Brown was voted as being one of the most 25 influential Gay and Lesbian people in Australia.

Venn-Brown is a Co-founder and Convenor of Freedom 2 B[e]. The stated mission of Freedom 2 B[e] is to create a global network of GLBTIQ people from Pentecostal and Charismatic backgrounds that helps them resolve issues of faith and sexuality and creates understanding and acceptance.

In 2007 Freedom 2 B(e) gay Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians and their supporters marched in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras for the first time.

In part one of this interview Anthony talks about his early Pentercostal Christian days and how he hoped being in the church would help him to lead a 'normal' heterosexual life.

He also discusses how he underwent sexual conversion therapy which for many included electric shocks and even lobotomies.

Despite being married with children he could not deny his sexuality to himself.

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[danthrplgst]

spare me...another short-bus kid...do you even realize saying trash like that is what drives people AWAY from the church. You cause souls to fall away...think about it...think about what you will say to God when he asks you "why did you not preach love to my sheep who wandered...instead you pushed them further away"

[danthrplgst]

OK, first off it's not a fucking lifestyle...a choice or anything else that your misguided pastor or parents pumped into your head. It's a sexual orientation that is IN-BORN. If you honestly think that anyone would CHOOSE to be gay then you're sadly out of touch with reality. Perhaps if you allowed the Spirit, instead of pastors with agendas, to guide your reading of scripture you could free yourself of your sin...particularly, the sins of pride and arrogance.

[RevJhow12]

That doesn't matter, if I remember correctly I used the word "gay" because the comment before mine used that word and I was commenting on their comments. Either way God dose not create people to be homosexuals because God hates homosexuality.

[RevJhow12]

This is the most ridiculous thing that I have ever heard! God did not make anyone gay because God clearly states that he hates homosexuality. You have a choice to partake in this SIN and this is exactly what it is, sin. To say that God looks over something like this is crazy because the truth is that he dosent.

[rayschmidtjr]

do you have upper teeth?

[rayschmidtjr]

do you have upper teeth?

[GibsonLesJosh]

@danthrplgst no im a metal head :D psychology is powerful shiznit brahski. what the hell is a glbt? and i think ur mad. and really usher. lol you have no understanding of music.

[danthrplgst]

@GibsonLesJosh No, but after looking at your profile I realize the source of your comment, you're a kid with no understanding of psychology or social issues. I'm not going to debate this issue with a 14 yo. YOu should find some kids your own age or go to a local GLBT center and ask them to explain this to you.