Azariah Southworth is a gay Christian. Southworth is the host of the popular Christian show The Remix. Sense Azariah Southworth came out, as a result of him being gay the show has been canceled.
Southworth has been hosting and producing the popular Christian TV show, The Remix for a year and a half. It is in syndication and can be seen in more than 128 million homes worldwide. It averages more than 200,000 viewers weekly on one of three networks. It has featured major Christian acts such as Jars of Clay, Avalon, Superchick, Building 429 and Rachael Lampa.
Southworth has been featured in national publications such as Charisma Magazine and many other national Christian media outlets. “I know I will be cut off from many within the Christian community, and if so, then they didn’t get the point of the life of Christ. I believe by me living my life honestly and authentically now, I am able to be a better person and a better Christian. We all know there are so many other gay people in the Christian industry; they’re just all scared. I was scared, but now I’m no longer afraid,” notes Southworth.
I’m proud of Azariah, he knew he would lose his T.V. show if he came out. It was carried on TBN and that is a scary channel. I admire him for being honest with himself and his faith. For being willing to give up what he worked hard to achieve to say this is who I am: An honest Christian.
How many famous gay Christians are out there that are ashamed to say they love God because it will cost them their church, job, friends?
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Thanks for the well wishes you left on the blog…I still have many questions and fight plenty of monsters in my own head, that’s why I love reading your blog. I know I don’t fight alone…
I’m a book reader…and thought of a book you might enjoy: Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Naht Han. I really enjoyed it and it helped bridge the gap between my protestant past and my questions about Buddhism. What ever path you choose I thought his ideas about the similarities between two different religions was inspiring.
Great last question you pose in your post…how many indeed.
Kudos to Southworth! His fellow Christian’s reaction is so stereotypical — call me anything on this earth but don’t ever call me a christian – they are so full of judgment condemnation and the most hate – the lack what true love for their brothers and sisters – humankind – is really about.
The Universe is going to meet Southworth exactly where his energy is at now – better things will come to him –
Just watch and see – what’s so sad is that nobody really knows if there is a God – it’s 50% there could be and 50% there couldn’t be
But if it is – s/he is not the full of hate and judgment they preach of – Christians truly make me sicccck!!!!!!!!!
That is just so wrong!
True christian people don’t care about
your gender or color.
It’s so sad that gays are not even given the
right to be christians!
To top it off he’s a real hottie!
The irony is that there is no god to love. So much time and energy is wasted on religion which could be put to better things. I hope this guy takes the whole thing as an opportunity to eventually liberate himself from religion.
Hey ya’ll. I’m on a bit of spiritual search right now. I’ve talked with Cara and she agrees that there isn’t much evidence for me to continue with my Christian floundering.
Just because I was raised in a Christian home doesn’t mean that Christianity is the end all be all religion. Wednesday posts will still be of a spiritual nature…just more of my investigation and searching for some sort of truth and peace.
THE HOSTESS-I’m going tomorrow to buy the book you recommended. Thank you.
MISS VICKI- I’m with you don’t call me a Christian.
LAURIE-It is sad. Talk about an exodus from the church. GLBT people are doing it.
LIBHOMO-At the end of my search I may very well agree with you.
Hey C !
you should really pick up these 2 books or go online and try to find some of his readings, but i strongly suggest
“Conversations With God – Questions & Answers” by Neal Donald Walsch and “Communion With God” by Neal Donald Walsch – he has a series. Its going to blow your mind your energy and spirit – free at last.
My older brother introduced me to his teachings 7 yrs ago my life has never been the same – free of all bondage and religious Christian chains.
I do not believe in Satan I do not believe in Hell I do not believe in Organized Religion and I believe strongly in the energy and spirit of the Universe Mother Nature evolution science etc. My God is all of those but not the tyrant and monster taught inside a bible which has been stepped trampled reedited to suit man.
I grew up an Atheist turned Christian – had a street ministry for over 15 yrs. no bible hurling chick on the street corners though – went and fed clothed shelter people living in the streets that were in need.
Been to the prisons deathrow jail crack alleys crack houses they use to call me Touched By An Angel but Christians still told me I was going to Hell – becuz I’m a Lesbian.
They didnt want any of my so called social ills in their church polluting it up – so thanks Neal Donald Walsch – I can say w/o worry now — FCUK’EM!
The cold hard truth that people who are gay and lesbian miss is that hell is real.
Denying hell doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Saying you love God yet continue to live in defiance of his word won’t get you to heaven.
Lesbian said what, I have read some of your posts. I see that you are struggling. If you leave your sinful life style that is paving your road to hell you will find peace.
Jesus offers you peace, and love. You are caught up in the flesh. You think you’re a lesbian but you are not.
Walking away from God won’t change the reality of your life. Which is; you are well on your way to hell.
I know that sounds harsh. The truth is often harsh. God loves you, but he cannot accept your filthy sin.
I will be praying for you. I will come back to your blog and continue to read your writings. I will continue to speak truth to you in the name of God.
You don’t need to read any other book but the Bible.
MISS VICKI-wow you’ve been a lot of places to minister to people. I’ll check out the writings of Neal. Thanks for the reference.
SANE-I understand that you think my life is ’sinful’. I don’t believe that it is. I think it’s only human to struggle with faith and belief. That is how someone builds their faith and them self.
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Hell is not real.
What makes you think hell is real?
What is the evidence that hell exists?
There is a claim in a book. A claim is not evidence.
I don’t care if every other word in that book is true, a claim, is not evidence. (And, I don’t think every other word in that book iis true. Probably considerably less than half the words in that book are true, the way I see it. <– there’s a joke in there, for the math inclined.)
All your life, you’ve been told that being faithful is a good thing.
What is “being faithful.”
Being faithful is believing a certain set of things.
Not just that, but believing them without any real reasons, so that you believe them in a different way than say, you believe that the sky is blue. You can *see* the sky is the color which we refer to as blue. The things believed by means of faith are not believed by the same means that one believes the sky is blue.
So, faith if you have faith that something is true, you think that thing is true despite not really having a solid rational reason to think it’s true, kind of being more certain than you have a good reason to be about something.
Why is that a good idea. Why is it a good idea to be more certain about something than the evidence warrants?
You’ve been told that it is a good idea, but have you ever asked why it’s a good idea? Are you sure it really is a good idea?
I suggest this: believing things to a degree of certainty which exceeds what is warranted by the available evidence is actually NOT a good idea. In fact, it’s a pretty terrible idea.
I suggest that the notion of faith is a pretty terrible idea.
Think about it.
All your life, if you’re like many people, you’ve been told, and have assumed that faith was a good thing, was a good idea.
Did you ever consider that maybe it isn’t a good idea?
Think about it. Why is believing things to a degree of certainty which exceeds what is warranted by the evidence a good idea? Why?
Are you sure it isn’t a terrible idea? It sure seems like a terrible idea. If you throw out evidence, what do you have to go on but your feelings?
Of those people of the earh who use faith to arrive at a conclusion, there is no clear majority convergence on a single answer — we have Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, etc, all using faith, and all arriving at mutually exclusive answers. Contrast this with science, evidence based thinking, where there is world wide convergence, and not only that — science works — the computer you’re reading this on is a product of science. It sure as hell wasn’t prayed into existence by a bunch of bishops.
Think about it. Faith doesn’t lead to knowledge. Faith is not helpful, and is not the good thing which it has been advertised as. Faith is harmful.
SCARY-I respectfully disagree in some regards. While I think you have a lot of good points, and interesting ones at that, I think faith can be good.
There is healthy faith, then their is blind reckless faith. Jump off cliffs my higher power will catch me kind of faith.
While I’m in no position to talk about faith because I’m not sure what I believe in…I do have faith however that there is something bigger than me out there…I just don’t know what.
SCARY-thank you for your awesome reply. It did make me do some thinking. I suck at math though.
Wowee!!
I have an uncle that told me once that he didn’t know if there is a heaven or hell, but just the same, he felt he had lived a good life within Christian values, and if it all turned out to bunk (my word not his), then that was fine.
I fell away from the Church for most of my life, somply because I wanted nothing to do with a religion that hated *me*. I have since come back. I am a skeptic in every sense of the word, though. And I found that there were TBLG-friendly (accepting even) parishes out there, if you’re interested and willing to look for them
All those who feel true Christain belief is through literal interpretation of the Bible are IMHO *bunk*.
LIZ–I agree that literal interpretation of the bible is a bunch of hooey. People pick and choose what part of the bible they want to enforce.