A pastor in Michigan, who has strong opinions against LGBT individuals and their rights, recently resigned from his post, after he was found using a dating app meant for gays and lesbians. Reverend Matthew Makela resigned from his job at St John’s Lutheran
Church last month, after he was found exchanging sexual messages with a gay man on Grindr.
He wrote in one message, “I love to make out naked. Oral and massage. And I top,” and “ I would love to mess around with a bi-curious guy.”
According to media reports, Makela started using this particular dating app after expressing anti-LGBT views in an article that suggested sexual attraction should be resisted like the temptations to lie or steal.
Makela wrote in that article, “I love people who have same sex attraction, and so does God. The proof is in the sacrifice He made for all of us.”
LGBT webzine Queerty had taken note of certain homophobic comments that were soon deleted from below the article.
“We don’t tell a person born with tendencies to abuse alcohol to keep on giving in to his innate desires because he can’t help it. We try to help him in his struggle,” read one of them.
Not to forget how Makela once reacted to the growing activism that surrounds LGBT issues in today’s day and age. Angry at the amount of attention that has been given to lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people in recent times, Makela labeled the rights movement as ‘helping opportunistic sickos prey upon children and others.’
When approached by the media, Makela admitted that it was his profile on Grindr and clarified that he had since stepped down from his post as pastor.
Queerty went on to explain why it decided to publicly out Makela outside of Grindr, saying, “If Makela made even one LGBT kid at St. John’s “Christ-based” elementary school, their parents, friends, family or anyone who ever stepped foot in the church feel like being true to yourself is shameful (and it seems all too likely that he did), then we’re glad to share his hypocrisy with the world.”
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