Jennifer Knapp Returns to Christian Music Scene, Confirms Her Sexuality (Yes, she says she's gay)

Christian Post ^ | 04/17/2010 | Josh Kimball

[SeekAndFind]

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Abnormal people want people to believe they are normal.

[SeekAndFind]

What really saddens me is she is using the term “Christian” as an adjective to describe herself while simultaneously ignoring the Christian injunction against the homosexual lifestyle.

It will be even sadder if Christians buy, patronize and endorse her music if she does not repent.

[ThunderSleeps]

“I'm just a normal human being who's dealing with normal everyday life scenarios,” Knapp told Christianity Today.

Ah, no, you're not honey. Sorry to break it to you. Most people are not dealing with the same "scenarios" as you are.

[Gay State Conservative]

You can't be a genuine Christian *and* a “practicing” homosexual.Regardless of what any atheist,Episcopal bishop,Methodist bishop,Unitarian/Universalist “minister’ might say.

[Gay State Conservative]

“I'm just a normal human being...Knapp told Christianity Today.

Wrong first time...sweetheart.

[hiredhand]

She’ll realize what we all know to be a fact when they discover that her record sales among “christians” are in the toilet. At this this point, she should just save the grief and stay with secular music. It will save her a lot of trouble.

[butterdezillion]

We’re all dealing with temptation to sin, so she’s right in that way. But as long as we’re alive and Christian we will be struggling with sin - not embracing it.

We die with Christ so that we can rise with Him. That means that some of the things we really crave have to become dead to us. It’s a small price to pay for being found in Christ.

We all fall and need His grace and forgiveness to pick us back up again. But to refuse to be yoked with Him and let Him carry the heavy burden of our sin and the temptations we face, is to be without Him. His grace is made perfect in our weakness; there is so much lost because she has embraced sin rather than leaning on Jesus to fulfill her every need.

[KansasGirl]

Never heard of her.

[ReneeLynn]

Her choice is Christ or this woman and she doesn’t want to make the choice. That’s true for any relationship outside of marriage.

Unfortunately, she’ll have a chorus of voices telling her that she doesn’t have to choose.

[RobbyS]

Drunks are normal people, too, and they often deny that they have to change.

[Repeat Offender]

Hey, when was the last time my anyone hurt drinking?

[Othniel]

On the plus side, she'll now have thousands of people praying that her "relationship" will fail, that she'll repent, and then be able to write better songs. Sure, there's a struggle everyday against whatever is our "cross," but embracing it and not dealing with it is....well, stupid.

There. I said it. She's stupid. Now, watch everyone call me a stupidophobe.

[count-your-change]

“I think it’s going to be shocking and feel like a betrayal to some people who live their spiritual lives through the music they listen to,” Knapp told the LGBT publication.”

Yep, them old eight track tapes are so..so...inspiring...they just bring tears to my eyes!!!!

[gitmo]

“As a Christian, I'm doing that as best as I can,” she added. “The heartbreaking thing to me is that we're all hopelessly deceived if we don't think that there are people within our churches, within our communities, who want to hold on to the person they love, whatever sex that may be, and hold on to their faith. It's a hard notion.”

She's right, of course. There are men in the churches who would like to run off with another woman, yet they don't. There are women who face comparable temptations. There are people who really want to steal, who really want to gossip or who are tempted to lie. I knew a Christian lady who was repeatedly tempted to go worship Krhishna (who she had served years before) yet she resisted the temptation.

Sin is pleasurable. For sexual temptations, scripture advises us to flee.

[RobbyS]

Big case down here. A guy who had just served time for DWI and was on parole, killed a mother and daughter while driving drunk. The cops and the DA are all over him, two two murder counts. Lightning speed by normal standard, because everyone is outraged.

[hellbender]

Wow. She has collaborated with the great Christian band Third Day. It is not clear from the article whether she is actually a practicing homosexual, or has lesbian inclinations. Remember that God is not willing that anyone should perish, and that homosexuality is not inherently worse than adultery, promiscuity, or other sins. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. I hope and pray she gets turned around.

[Tramonto]

I find it funny that she is on tour with a member of Caedmon’s Call. I expect Bebo Norman will be joining them shortly.

[xjcsa]

Wow. She has collaborated with the great Christian band Third Day.

Yes, and she has some serious talent. I was a fan of her early stuff.

It is not clear from the article whether she is actually a practicing homosexual, or has lesbian inclinations.

It says she's in an 8-year "relationship" with a "partner." I think that's plenty clear, unfortunately.

Remember that God is not willing that anyone should perish, and that homosexuality is not inherently worse than adultery, promiscuity, or other sins. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. I hope and pray she gets turned around.

Me too.

[xjcsa]

I find it funny that she is on tour with a member of Caedmon’s Call. I expect Bebo Norman will be joining them shortly.

Derek Webb - who is, by the way, an incredibly nice, friendly, funny, genuine guy in person - is definitely on the liberal end of the Christian music world. Not sure about Bebo.