Just a couple weeks after announcing that he is no longer a Christian, former pastor and author Joshua Harris has been spotted at an LGBT pride event in Canada.
Posting about the event on his Instagram stories, Harris uploaded pictures of himself wearing a gay pride shirt and eating rainbow-colored donuts. “Enjoyed swapping stories, gentleman!” he wrote, pictured alongside two other men — Matthias Roberts, host of Queerology: A Podcast on Belief and Being, and gay singer Trey Pearson, who is the former frontman of Christian rock band, Everyday Sunday.
In his original post on July 26, Harris, who penned the wildly popular “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” back in the 1990s, ditched his conservative evangelical views and openly apologized to the LGBT community for his previous teaching. “To the LGBTQ+ community, I want to say that I am sorry for the views that I taught in my books and as a pastor regarding sexuality,” he wrote.
In “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” Harris put forward a new model for pre-marital relationships, advocating a type of intentional courtship that is more likely to end in marriage. In his previous life as a pastor and evangelical author, Harris confirmed that homosexual relationships were sinful according to the Bible. He no longer holds true to this belief.
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