Australia: What do you call a gay who starts a church?

“David”, apparently.

SMH

AUSTRALIA’S first gay missionary church, with a congregation barely in double figures, is in schism with disaffected former members claiming it operates like a cult and could damage vulnerable people.

David Witte says he was asked to leave Acts2Faith because the leadership found his enthusiasm and ideas threatening. His partner, James Nevein, left at the same time last November.

Acts2Faith is a Pentecostal-style church launched by Encounter International, the missionary arm of an American church. It ministers especially to ”lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer people – all the colours of the rainbow”, according to its Melbourne leader, Becky Bauer.

Wait, here’s another:

Q: How do you ‘minister’ to the kind of people your Holy Book tells you to kill?

A: With great difficulty.

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