Prominent Antigay Evangelical Blogger Outed as Gay

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5. Merritt maintains that he's not gay.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/evangelical-author-jonathan-merritt-reveals-he-had-homosexual-encounter/2012/07/26/gJQAg2uECX_story.html

Merritt said in the interview that he had plans to reveal his past, but the blogger prompted him to disclose it sooner. He also said that he does not consider himself gay.

“I don’t identify as ‘gay’ because I believe there can be a difference between what one experiences and the life that God offers,” Merritt said in the interview posted Thursday (July 26).

Merritt also told Stetzer that an older man who lived in his neighborhood sexually abused him when he was a child.

“The experience was followed with a tidal wave of shame and guilt so great that I never told anyone for many years,” Merritt said.