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Laodicean Christian Sellout Amy Grant Glories In Her LGBT Fan Base

During her first gay press interview, the Grammy winner reflected on her loyal gay fan base, how she reconciles Christianity and homosexuality, and her “compassion” for gay marriage.

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May 6, 2014

Geoffrey Grider

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You know what’s so interesting, even when I was discovering my own sexuality and meeting people that had a different experience, I didn’t categorize then, and I don’t categorize right now.

Amy Grant loves receiving adoration, praise and financial reward from the lost and dying who attend her shows. She states that “it’s a honor” to perform at gay weddings. And never once does she open her mouth to tell her lost fans that without Jesus Christ they are on their way to Hell. This interview here, her first ever to the gay press, was an excellent opportunity to tell them about salvation in Jesus. She never mentions the Lord’s name one time. I wonder how that will play out at the Judgment Seat of Christ?

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” 1 Timothy 6:10 (KJV)

PrideSource – During her first gay press interview, and for an entire hour, the Grammy winner reflected – with her usual sincerity and thoughtfulness – on her loyal gay fan base, how she reconciles Christianity and homosexuality, her “compassion” for gay marriage and the unforgettable dinner she shared with out ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero.

When the biggest Christian music artist of all time is doing gay press, you know we’ve come a long way. Were you kept at bay from gay press beforehand, earlier in your career?

It never came up.

But you have obviously had a big gay following for quite sometime. Why have gay people connected to you in such profound ways?

All of us sometimes feel disenfranchised or, for whatever reason, like we’re just on the periphery or marginalized. People feel that for all kinds of reasons, and by the time you’ve lived any amount of life, I think anybody has had that experience somewhere. I remember doing concerts back in the early ’80s and going shopping with some of the singers that I was working with and one of them, Donna McElroy, had to get some makeup – and she’s African-American – and I said, “Hey, I’ll meet you back here.” I ran my errands and I came back and said, “Are you done?” She said, “No one’s waited on me.”

Christian singer Amy Grant happily receives the praise, adoration and financial benefits of her LGBT fan base, but she doesn’t have the guts to tell them that they are lost and headed to a Devil’s Hell.

Everybody is outside of some circle, but what I’ve always wanted to do is have a message of honesty and welcoming, and being willing to say this is the good, bad and the ugly. This is who I am. And if I’m saying that about myself, it’s like, jump in, the water’s fine. So I love that. I love that people connect to my music.

At this point in your career, are you at all concerned about people passing judgment on you for talking to gay press?

We all ultimately need to know that we’re loved, and I think it would be really crazy if you said, “I’m not going to talk to this group of people because someone’s looking on that’s not a part of the conversation and might have an opinion about it.” I mean, my whole life has been that. (Laughs) It takes all of our energy to navigate whatever road we’re on. What’s interesting is, this last year I was invited on Monday mornings to go to a woman’s house – also a songwriter, also a singer – and just have some time of quiet stillness all together. But her house wasn’t even quiet. There were workers there sometimes, or there was nowhere to get that was quiet.

As we were sitting there trying to get quiet, she said, “It never gets still, and so I’m not gonna get all rankled in my head. I’m just gonna say, ‘Well, there’s the noise of the person next door blowing off their driveway with that really load motor. There it is. There’s the sound of sirens going up and down the street.'” She said, “When we learn to observe without judgment, then we have the ability to observe and learn, or to observe and be.” And I said, “Do you know how exhausting it is to observe with judgment all the time? It’s just exhausting.” I have thanked her many times. We could all stand to hear that.

You came from a fairly strict religious upbringing, but it sounds like there’s been an evolution in the way you see people.

Well, I don’t know. When you say strict, that’s interesting. What do you mean by that? (Laughs) I mean, we went to church every Sunday morning, every Sunday night, every Wednesday night.

You’re right. I should say diligently religious.

Yeah. I remember when we moved to Texas and my parents went to this really, I guess, conservative church – a Church of Christ – and something incredible was happening within that church community. I remember seeing this transformation in my mom and dad. I was old enough to remember that. What I remember about our home after that was that it was welcoming … to everybody.

To black people? To gay people?

Just to people.

Did you ever feel that you had to reconcile your Christian faith with your acceptance of homosexuality?

That’s not my life experience. In the same way, if you put my shoes on, you would go, “I thought this experience was going to be one way and it was totally different.” None of us has any idea what somebody’s life experience is like.

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Do you remember the first gay person you knew? Did you have a close gay friend?

Absolutely. But my first: maybe college. Someone might have just seemed theatrical or, I don’t know, effeminate, but when I was in high school – I graduated in ’78 – I had friends in high school who eventually said, “I’m living a gay lifestyle,” but they didn’t say it then. People were very private about their sexuality, period. Maybe not everywhere, but I just don’t remember, “I’m exploring this, I’m exploring that.”

When did you first know you had a gay fan base?

Probably by the time I was 18.

How did you know? Did a fan tell you his or her coming-out story?

No. Just from meeting people. I don’t know. I guess I’m kind of going, that was a long time ago. I’m 52. (Laughs) I’ve never even thought about it. It’s like saying, “There’s gray-haired people in the crowd, too.” If people come to my shows, this is what they say: “Wow, there are people of all ages and lifestyles in your crowd.” That’s what they always say. But then someone will come up and say, “You know, I saw a guy with a boa on,” and I’ll say, “Oh yeah, yeah, I’ve always had a big gay following.” (Laughs)

To me, I don’t give it a second thought. I remember the first time someone from the crew said, “I smell pot in the back of the crowd,” and I went, “Well, fantastic! Yay!” I’m so glad that just “people” are coming.

From photos I’ve seen and conversations I’ve heard, you seem to have established some close relationships with people in the Gay Friends of Amy Grant group on Facebook over the years. Can you describe your relationship with them?

When you’ve done something for a long time, there is a great familiarity that comes over the years. I will say that I have a couple of friends that I made – just because they came to shows for a long time – and I figure we must have some things in common because, of all the music we’re all attracted to, at least we share this music in common.

Weren’t you invited to perform at the wedding of one of your gay fans but couldn’t due to your schedule?

I was invited. I was honored to be invited. I have to tell you: Anytime somebody asks me to perform at a wedding, I say, “I do not have a good track record.” (Laughs) A lot of the weddings I’ve performed at, the marriages have ended poorly.

I recall seeing you perform with Melissa Etheridge for Lifetime’s “Women Rock!” special in 2000 and thinking, as a teenager struggling with his sexuality, “She’s performing with an openly lesbian performer; she’s throwing her gay fans a bone.”

You know what’s so interesting, even when I was discovering my own sexuality and meeting people that had a different experience, I didn’t categorize then, and I don’t categorize right now. It makes me realize that I don’t have any idea of what it would feel like every moment of my life to go somewhere and feel judged.

But you have felt judged, right? Judged for getting divorced. Judged for your pop crossover, even.

No, no. Do people from a distance have an opinion? Yeah, that’s human nature to have an opinion. Whatever was going on in a rag magazine, or whatever someone was saying behind my back or in a heated conversation, I was never in that circle. I wasn’t part of that conversation. I never, ever pursued one chat room. If there was an article or some argument – “I can’t believe you’re doing this” – I just never pursued it because I thought, “We don’t understand each other.”

There are a lot of times that I wind up in situations that I do not see eye to eye with somebody. And it doesn’t help to throw gas on the fire. Clearly they’re going to have their opinion. Carry on. And I’m gonna go do what I’m gonna go do.

I know you are not a political person.

Yeah, I’m not.

So how do you respond to people when they ask you about your feelings on gay marriage?

In the same way that I did not tell one person who I voted for. I don’t. I never talk about anything like that. I did tell Vince (Gill, her husband) the day after the election. (Laughs)

But I think my response is, I have had so many occasions in my life where I have felt really strongly about something – but that feeling has changed. Those feelings change about different situations, and so because I’m a public person – and because I want always to bring people together – I really do say this is a world that’s unfamiliar to me and I am always trying to observe with compassion.

This isn’t a cut-and-dry issue for you, then.

Well, nothing is cut-and-dry. You know, one of the most fascinating dinners I’ve ever spent sitting next to somebody I had not met was at a large function with my family. We were all seated with place cards; it was a large group and I introduced myself to the fellow next to me. It was Anthony Romero (executive director of the ACLU). I mean, we didn’t line up our views; I just said, “Oh my goodness.” And he said, “I think they probably thought this was going to be very funny having us sit next to each other.” (Laughs)

I just said, “Tell me about your life.” He asked me the same thing. He told me good things about his job and hard things about his job. It was two human beings that have had very different lifestyles sitting next to each other and sharing life. Given 10 choices, would Anthony and I choose the same things? Maybe so. Maybe not. But I felt so changed by that. And what I really felt was, well … I … (pauses)

What did you feel?

Well, I kept his card for a long time, and I hoped that our paths would cross again. I felt a lot of compassion for his parents, first-generation immigrants, and he described his childhood and what it was like. I went, “This makes total sense that he has invested his life coming to the aid of the people in his world that are disenfranchised because, for a whole different set of reasons, his parents were marginalized.”

And you found that inspiring?

Yes. You know what, we all face challenges in our life that we didn’t anticipate, and the most important thing is that we not face them alone. To me, if there’s anything that comes out of this conversation, in the same way that a relationship cannot be nurturing if it’s competitive, it’s this: When you don’t understand something, you can either default to judgment or you can default to compassion. Those take you down completely different roads.

Are you speaking about yourself?

Yeah, and that’s really … ahh, I’m just talking about life in general. This is interesting because I have never done an interview where it feels every question is saying, “Tell me I’m OK.” That’s what feels like the underlying energy behind the questions, and I’m just going, “That’s a powerful kind of energy” – and for different reasons. Maybe not sexuality. Because that’s what every person’s crying out for. Anyway, sometimes a good night’s sleep helps for more concise answers.

It’s just that we’re living lives that are different from each other. It’s like two people sitting at a dinner table having a long conversation. If you and I were facing each other at a different table and we walked away and somebody asked us to describe where we were, my entire view was behind your head. I mean, I’m gonna describe the place differently than you. That’s just true about all of life and really, I’m trying to listen and learn and in a way have a great opportunity to try to understand the fan base that comes to a show. I’m even more glad they feel welcome. Even more glad after this. Can I say one thing?

Of course.

I know that the religious community has not been very welcoming, but I just want to stress that the journey of faith brings us into community, but it’s really about one relationship. The journey of faith is just being willing and open to have a relationship with God. And everybody is welcome. Everybody. source – PrideSource

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Hantavirus Outbreak On Cruise Ship Sparks Global Contact Tracing As Trump Is Once Again President During A Potential Pandemic-Level Threat

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May 7, 2026

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Trump Was President During COVID And Now He Is President Again As A Deadly Hantavirus Outbreak Triggers Global Contact Tracing Across International Borders

Here we go again? The last time Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office, the whole world was plunged into a pandemic that shut down churches, closed businesses, crashed economies, normalized masks, conditioned people to accept medical passports, and gave governments a once-in-a-generation excuse to test just how much control frightened populations would surrender. Now here we are in 2026, Trump is president again, and once again we are watching global health authorities, airlines, cruise operators, and international agencies scramble to track a deadly virus that has already killed three people. Coincidence? Maybe. But at this point, the word “coincidence” is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting.

“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9 (KJB)

The World Health Organization says the MV Hondius cruise ship outbreak was reported on May 2, 2026, and that as of May 4, there were seven cases linked to severe respiratory illness, including two laboratory-confirmed hantavirus cases, five suspected cases, three deaths, and one critically ill patient. Symptoms included fever, gastrointestinal illness, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and shock. AP reports that the outbreak unfolded over weeks as the vessel sailed from Argentina toward Antarctica and then across the Atlantic, with passengers and crew becoming sick before authorities fully understood what they were dealing with.

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That is exactly the kind of “we’ve seen this before” scenario that should make your ears perk up. Not because hantavirus is automatically “the next COVID,” and not because every outbreak is a manufactured event, but because the machinery around these events is now fully built, tested, and waiting. Contact tracing. Isolation orders. Airline alerts. Global coordination. Public-health messaging. International surveillance. We saw that machine roar to life in 2020, and now we are watching the gears begin to turn again. This is what we’ve been warning you about since the first time they tried it.

Oceanwide Expeditions said it is “tracking down the details of passengers and crew on the m/v Hondius since March” and that details would be available in coming days. source

The cruise ship angle makes it even more provocative. AP reported that more than two dozen passengers left the ship on April 24, after the first onboard fatality, before contact tracing was fully in place. Those passengers then had the potential to travel onward internationally. That is the stuff of pandemic tabletop exercises: a contained environment, an exotic pathogen, international passengers, delayed identification, global travel routes, and public-health authorities racing to reconstruct the chain of exposure after the fact.

Now add this wrinkle: this is not just any hantavirus. The WHO-linked reporting identifies concern around the Andes strain, a rare hantavirus associated with South America, and public health authorities are watching it closely because unlike most hantaviruses, Andes virus has been associated with limited person-to-person transmission in certain close-contact settings. That does not mean it is spreading like influenza or COVID. But it does mean the contact-tracing response is not merely theatrical. There is a legitimate reason officials are moving quickly. Just how far things will go remains to be seen, but giving heed to the words of King Solomon in the book of Ecclesiaties 1:9 is a great place to start.

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THE PROPHECY NEWS PODCAST: Perry Stone And Alan DiDio Sound The Alarm That Christian Pastors Are ‘Being Prepared’ For Massive UFO & Alien Disclosure

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May 5, 2026

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Perry Stone And Alan DiDio Say Pastors Were Secretly Briefed By Intelligence Officials To Prepare Christians For UFO Disclosure That Could ‘Shake Their Faith’ In The Bible

Influential Christian pastors are now being told to “prepare” their congregations for shocking government revelations about UFOs, extraterrestrials, non-human materials and alleged alien beings that could cause some professing Christians to question the Bible itself. Want to know what that sounds like to me? Like a major psyop is coming down the pike, much like the one Jesus warns us about in Matthew 24.

“And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.” Matthew 24:4 (KJB)

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, according to a report in the Daily Mail, Tennessee evangelist, author and Bible teacher Perry Stone said that a small group of pastors with large audiences in the Christian community were recently invited to a secret meeting with United States intelligence officials. The purpose of that meeting, according to Stone, was to prepare religious leaders for the possible release of government information involving UFOs, spacecraft and beings allegedly “not from this planet.” Pentecostal pastor Alan DiDio has been sounding a nearly identical prophetic alarm: that UFO disclosure, alien obsession, AI, the Antichrist system, and “non-human intelligence” are converging into a last-days deception aimed directly at the Church. It is worth noting that many of the pastors now warning the Church about UFO disclosure and alien deception are coming from the Charismatic and Pentecostal side of the aisle, the same stream of modern Christianity that has long emphasized dreams, visions, prophetic words, signs, wonders and supernatural manifestations. That makes this moment especially revealing: even those accustomed to talking about the supernatural are now warning that the coming UFO disclosure narrative may become a direct challenge to the Bible itself. But the Bible believer does not need Charismatic prophecy to explain UFO disclosure. We have the more sure word of prophecy, and that Book has already told us about seducing spirits, doctrines of devils, lying wonders, principalities, powers, and strong delusion.

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Iran Is Now Taunting United States Saying They’re ‘Just Getting Started’ In Stunning Exposé Of Just How Little Trump Understands Who He’s Actually At War With

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May 5, 2026

Geoffrey Grider

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As Iran Says It Is ‘Just Getting Started,’ Trump’s Department Of War Faces A Religious Regime That Sees Conflict As Its Calling

Iran’s taunt that it is “just getting started” isn’t diplomatic theater or empty sabre-rattling, and it’s not merely the language of a cornered regime trying to save face. It is the language of a Shiite Islamic revolutionary state that has spent nearly half a century building itself around hatred for Israel, hostility to America, terror by proxy, and apocalyptic religious ambition. Washington keeps trying to interpret Iran through the sterile lens of sanctions, ceasefires, oil routes, naval corridors and negotiating tables, while Tehran is telling the world plainly who they are and what they intend to do. The Iranian Regime is more than happy to die for their cause, and until Trump and Hegseth realize that, things will continue to go from bad to worse as they are right now.

“And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.” Genesis 16:12 (KJB)

The current crisis over the Strait of Hormuz is exposing that blindness in real time. The U.S. is attempting to reopen the strait through “Project Freedom,” with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth saying the mission is temporary and that other nations should eventually take over the burden of protecting commercial shipping. Meanwhile, Iran is warning that American interference in the waterway is a violation of the ceasefire and is threatening further escalation. That’s the problem. America is trying to dial down the heat, Iran is trying to turn it up. Iran is not “decimated” or “obliterated”, they are enjoying every minute of it. This is what Washington still does not understand. Iran does not see the Strait of Hormuz merely as a shipping lane. They see it as leverage over the world, a pressure point against the West, and a stage upon which they can demonstrate defiance against America and Israel. Reports say hundreds of vessels and thousands of sailors have been caught up in the crisis, with U.S. forces attempting to guide ships through or around threatened waters while Iranian officials continue to issue threats and challenge American authority in the Gulf.

The Trump administration may understand carrier groups, destroyers, sanctions packages and military briefings, but it has shown very little evidence that it understands the true nature of who we are fighting. Iran is not simply a “bad actor.” It is not merely a rogue state looking for a better deal. It is the head of a terror-sponsoring Islamic regime whose entire regional strategy is built around exporting revolution, surrounding Israel, exhausting the West, and using negotiations as breathing room between rounds of conflict.

Iran’s own statements make that plain. Just days ago, Iranian officials warned of a “long and painful” response if the United States renewed attacks, while restating claims over the Strait of Hormuz and complicating American efforts to reopen the waterway. That is not the tone of a regime looking to stand down. That is the tone of a regime probing for weakness, testing resolve, and watching to see whether America still has the stomach to finish what it starts.

Warmonger Pete saying that “Iran is trying to subjugate the world”. Huh?? I THOUGHT they were “decimated” and “obliterated”, so how are they still able to exert their will on the world? The Department of Lies is more like it. pic.twitter.com/WCZAAjgnMZ

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And here is where Bible believers must see clearly what the Pentagon cannot. This is not just a military contest. This is spiritual darkness expressing itself through geopolitical power. Iran’s hatred of Israel is not incidental to the conflict, it is central to it. Their war is not merely against American ships or Western sanctions. Their fury is ultimately directed at the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the land He gave by covenant promise.

“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.” Zechariah 12:2 (KJB)

That is why this conflict cannot be understood by secular analysts alone. They will talk endlessly about oil prices, shipping lanes, ceasefire mechanisms, coalition management, naval escorts and diplomatic offramps. But the King James Bible tells you where all of this is heading. The nations are being drawn, step by step, back to the Middle East, back to Israel, back to Jerusalem, and ultimately back to the prophetic program God declared long before the think tanks and war rooms ever existed.

America wants a temporary mission. Iran wants a permanent confrontation.

The Department of War says it is trying to secure commercial passage. Iran says the strait belongs under its “new maritime regime.” The U.S. wants to lower the temperature. Iran says it is just getting started. That contrast tells you everything you need to know. The Trump administration had better learn quickly that Iran does not think like Brussels, does not negotiate like Ottawa, and does not retreat like a Western bureaucracy embarrassed by bad polling. Iran is a religious dictatorship with messianic ambition, martyrdom theology, terror proxies and a long memory. They are willing to bleed their own people, wreck their own economy, and wreak havoc with global shipping if they believe it advances their war against Israel and the West. Does anyone remember the Kamakaze pilots that attacked Pearl Harbor? Negotations and peace talks have no effect with people who think like that.

This is the true nature of the enemy. And until America understands that, every ceasefire will become a countdown clock, every negotiation will become a delay tactic, every shipping corridor will become a trap, and every Iranian warning will be dismissed as rhetoric right up until the missiles begin to fly. America has already paid a steep price since Trump started this war, and something tells me that that’s ‘just getting started’, too.