Pastor ripped for ousting female-clad male congregant
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Michael F. Haverluck
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The pastor of a church in Chicago, Illinois, is receiving
backlash from the LGBTQ community and its supporters for
publicly rebuking a male church member Sunday night after he repeatedly showed up to church dressed like a woman – despite numerous warnings.
Power House International Ministries Pastor Antonio Rocquemore explained that he had to resort to openly admonishing the cross-dressing church member because he refused to heed the church's requests to stop showing up to worship service dressed as a transgender.
Virulent LGBTQ backlash
Advocates of the LGBTQ community came to the defense of the cross-dressing male church member's defense, blasting Rocquemore for reprimanding the gender-confused man.
"Christian James Lhuillier ... insisted that the member should not have been rebuked," The Christian Post (CP) reported.
Lhuillier – a man who also appears to physically present himself in a feminine manner – was the first to bring attention to Rocquemore's open rebuke of the congregant by taking to social media and posting a clip of the confrontation on his Facebook page, where he blasted the pastor for humiliating the man in front of others at church.
"Some of y'all are going to have to excuse my language, but I am tired of this [expletive]," Lhuillier wrote on his Facebook page – complete with a video clip of the open rebuke. "In a place that is supposed to be a place of change – a place of deliverance ... whatever you want to call it – why would you destroy someone in front of a room full of people?"
He then proceeded to attack the Church for not embracing the LGBTQ lifestyle, blaming Christians – who stand by God's condemnation of homosexual behavior – for gender-confused individuals' suicidal tendencies.....
...The Other Side Of The Story ...
In the face of Lhuillier's social media tirade, evidence of Rocquemore's forewarning that such gender-crossing behavior was not acceptable in God's sanctuary can be seen in a video recording of the entire church service.
"Rocquemore's public rebuke of the member begins after about 25 minutes of spirited praise and worship," CP's Leonardo Blair noted. "He also prefaced the rebuke with comments about biblical standards of holiness."
The pastor made it clear that his church only abides by God's Word – and does not cater to the ungodly and harmful behavior pushed and promoted through the LGBT agenda.
"The presence of the Lord is here ... if you stop believing – standing for something – you will fall for anything, and God can't move the way He wants to because of the standard," Rocquemore preached from the pulpit Sunday night before rebuking the woman-clad man, as seen a full recording of the Sunday night service on the church's Facebook page. "He set a standard. Stand by him – even if it costs you friends – because you'll always be approved by heaven. I'm at a point in my life where I'd rather heaven be pleased with me than people [who] speak to me. Speaking to me don't bother or stop where I'm going."...
...Dousing The Social Media Flames...
Rocquemore also addressed the issue on social media – attempting to calm the rage against him and his church for being "intolerant" of those adhering to the LGBT lifestyle.
"In a follow-up response to those criticizing his rebuke of the young man, Rocquemore explained that the young man has been a member of his church for several months and had expressed a desire to reflect manhood as expressed in the Bible," Blair noted. "As a part of his agreement in joining the church, Rocquemore said, the young man said he would abide by the rules of the church. He said that the church had also been working privately with him and warned him several times about dressing appropriately for church."
The pastor was unapologetic for kicking the gender-confused man out of his church – stressing that freely displaying sin in God's house of worship – regardless of what kind of sin – is simply not tolerated.
"He was not put out the church because he was gay," Rocquemore impressed on his personal Facebook page. "First of all, I don't bash nothing. I don't separate sin. Sin is sin. There is no need to bash one or the other if you're preaching the Word."....
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