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The British-born Beeching, a popular Christian singer in both her home country and in the U.S., came out as gay this week in an interview with The Independent, stating, "I'm gay. God loves me just the way I am."
The 35-year-old singer said she has know she was gay since she was twelve, but kept it tucked away, saying that being raised as a Christian made her feel "embarrassed and ashamed" over her feeling towards women.
"I increasingly began to feel like I was living behind an invisible wall. The inner secrecy of holding that inside was divorcing me from reality - I was living in my own head, " she said. "Anybody I was in a friendship with, or anything I was doing in the church, was accompanied by an internal mantra: 'What if they knew?' It felt like all of my relationships were built on this ice that would break if I stepped out on to it."
Stating the her faith "is stronger now than it has ever been" since coming out, Beeching swatted away comments from homophobic anti-gay activist Scott Lively who asked her, "Don't you care what God thinks, Vicky?"
"I'm very sorry that she has given into the lie that she is a homosexual," Lively said. "Instead of trying to overcome the challenge that is in her life."
Asked by the host if she has been living a lie, Beeching responded, "That is very much what I was raised to believe. Psychologically that's very damaging for people because it make you feel like you're fighting against yourself."
Beeching went on to say that we need to "accept our sexual orientation as a God-given gift."
Lively replied, "There is no such thing as a gay person. It's this identity you adopt."
"I believe God has made me the way he's made me. It's taken me thirty-five years to come to terms with that, and I believe that's it's part of my God-wired identity," Beeching retorted.
After Lively said that God has the ability to help her "overcome your sexual inclinations," Beeching replied, "That kind of thinking has been so damaging to me and it damages so many people."
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This Scott Lively? more lke Deadly - what a judgmental ass! He would have thrown the first stone, claiming perfection. What a Holier Than Thou ASSH*LE! And then - like many who claim to worship Christ - "would have cheered at the crucifixion" (Quoting Soul Asylum.)
FEARLESS LEADER
Jesus was a hippie
Peace and love was all he was about
That's why they killed him
'Cause that shit's something people can't figure out
Now some folks who worship him are the ones
Who would have cheered at the crucifixion
They got no conviction
It doesn't matter if the man was fact or fiction
Nixon was a liar
It's the one thing believed to be true
But Tricky Dick was not a crook
Whatever that means, whatever presidents do
Money can't buy you children
And nothing can bring them back to you
We all make mistakes
We all need someone to look up to
But who're you gonna call your fearless leader?
Who's gonna put your fears to bed?
'Cause heroes will never let you down
Just as long as they're dead
Satan is a feeling, deviance it lurks in everyone
Guilty pleasures, mischievous behavior can be fun
No one made you do it, nobody but yourself to blame
It's always at your door and trouble is its name
But who're you gonna call your fearless leader?
Who's gonna put your fears to bed?
Sometimes you gotta pick and choose
Sometimes, no matter what, you lose
Divine was a woman
His private parts said she was a man
Those were his private parts
The parts that he could never understand
But she was an actress
She could be anything that she wanted
Her reality was the very
Thing that she flaunted
But who're you gonna call your fearless leader?
Who's gonna put your fears to bed?
Heroes will never let you down
Just as long as they're dead
But who're you gonna call your fearless leader?
When you run from fear you leave yourself behind
You can't dump your fears on someone else
'Cause it's all in your mind
R.C.