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May 21, By FM Editors. Crowley, 37, was born in Atlanta and raised in Rome, Georgia. Sign up. Username or Email Address. Privacy Policy. Continue reading at NBC News. Remember Me. Don't have an account? Friday, October 10, Faithfully Magazine. Password recovery.

It was six years later, inthat Crowley felt God urge him to tell his congregation that he was gay. A month later, Crowley was elected Senior Pastor of the historic West Newton church, one of America’s oldest Black congregations.

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It was daunting when the Rev. It was more daunting — at times agonizing — to reach the decision six years later, inthat God wanted him to tell his congregation that he was gay. News Dr. LGBTQ Gay by the Grace of God: A Black Pastor’s Journey Openly gay minister Bishop Joseph Tolton is at the forefront of African and Black American faith leaders bringing progress to their communities.

Crowley said his great-grandmother repeatedly assured him that he was made in the image of God. She also told him about getting pregnant at 14 — and breaking away from her own church after refusing its demand to apologize to the congregation.

The Rev. Brandon Thomas Crowley had always loved the Black Church, and developed an ambition in his youth to become a pastor even as he realized he was gay. To his relief, most of the worshippers at Myrtle Baptist Church in Newton, Massachusetts, embraced him.

Read more. Nonetheless, throughout this period, Crowley felt he was called to be a Christian pastor — a preacher of the social justice gospel. Sign in.

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One Sunday, however, the pastor preached a fiery sermon against homosexuals. He admired the preachers he heard as a child, especially at Lovejoy Baptist Church, his home congregation. Believing he had to hide his sexual identity in order to pursue that calling, he began dating a girl at Lovejoy.

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