This is an Other Sheep web site.
You can visit Other Sheep at www.othersheep.org
You can visit Other Sheep at www.othersheep.org
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1971-1976
Steve's Closeted Years
at Baptist Bible College
Clarks Summit, PA
October 8, 2005
Steve, with Jose,
Coming Out to Friends
at the BBC Residence
Hall Reunion
Steve's Closeted Years
at Baptist Bible College
Clarks Summit, PA
October 8, 2005
Steve, with Jose,
Coming Out to Friends
at the BBC Residence
Hall Reunion
| Library at Jackson Hall Back Stage, Student Center |
| Steve at Ketchem Dorm where he was Residential Assistant from 1975-1976. |
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"Well, to tell you the truth, I'm gay and this is my partner, Jose. We've been
together now eight years."
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"GLBT stands for Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenered. Other
Sheep helps sexual minorities to reconcile their faith with their sexual
orientation."
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"Did you have any idea I was gay back then?"
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"Not to worry. I'm gay."
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"Jeff Miner would be a good web site. He graduated from Bob Jones
University with plans to go into the ministry. Instead, because he knew he
was gay and had not reconciled his faith with his homosexual orientation,
he went to Harvard University and graduated with a law degree. While
practicing law for several years, he studied the key passages of Scripture
that we traditionally use against homosexuals. After careful study (like a
lawyer!), he concluded the Bible does not condemn homosexuals. He now
pastors a church for gays in Indianapolis. I've visited it. About four
hundred attend. You can listen to his sermons from the internet. He's also
written a book entitled The Children Are Free. I recommend it along with
Tom Hank's study on the book of Romans and homosexuality."
together now eight years."
___________________________________________________
"GLBT stands for Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgenered. Other
Sheep helps sexual minorities to reconcile their faith with their sexual
orientation."
___________________________________________________
"Did you have any idea I was gay back then?"
___________________________________________________
"Not to worry. I'm gay."
___________________________________________________
"Jeff Miner would be a good web site. He graduated from Bob Jones
University with plans to go into the ministry. Instead, because he knew he
was gay and had not reconciled his faith with his homosexual orientation,
he went to Harvard University and graduated with a law degree. While
practicing law for several years, he studied the key passages of Scripture
that we traditionally use against homosexuals. After careful study (like a
lawyer!), he concluded the Bible does not condemn homosexuals. He now
pastors a church for gays in Indianapolis. I've visited it. About four
hundred attend. You can listen to his sermons from the internet. He's also
written a book entitled The Children Are Free. I recommend it along with
Tom Hank's study on the book of Romans and homosexuality."
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Jose & Steve at
the Student Center
before the start of
the program
the Student Center
before the start of
the program
1971-1975 BRE degree
1975-1976 ThB degree
1975-1976 ThB degree
The reply made when a fellow former RA pointed to "GLBT" on Steve's business card and asked, "What does GLBT stand for?" |
| The reply given after Steve reconnected with a fellow cast member from the 1974 campus production of "Helen Keller" when she said, "Steve Parelli! I haven't seen you since all this time. What are you doing?" |
To a female class mate who, with a look of surprise to see Steve, enthusiastically and spontaneously hugged him. Her reply to Steve's question was "No, I didn't." |
Steve's light-hearted comment to the on-looking husband of the female alumnus who energetically hugged him. |
Steve's comments to a Baptist Bible College student residing in Ketchem dorm who engaged Steve and Jose in a good ol' dorm-time theological debate on same-sex marriages (exactly 30 years after Steve was RA in the same dorm). |
| What is Other Sheep Other Sheep is Multicultural Ministries with Sexual Minorities, working world wide in an ever-expanding variety of languages, cultures and GLBT concerns, to share the good news that God loves all gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons just as they are and calls them into inclusive, gay-affirming, Christian communities. You can visit Other Sheep at www.othersheep.org |
The play "Helen Keller" was performed upon the old, small-area speaker's platform of Jackson Hall. Here, Steve stands on the stage at the Student Center that replaced Jackson Hall's small platform. The Student Center was constructed while Steve was still a student. On this stage, Steve starred in the play "Our Town" as the "Stage Manager" in the fall of 1975. "Our Town," a three act play set in a small town in New Hampshire, depicts the routine and mundane rituals of daily life. The story centers around George Gibbs and Emily Webb, who grow up in the same town of Grover's Corners, marry and then are prematuraly separated by death when Emily dies in child birth. In the final act, "Emily choses to relive her twelfth birthday, but when she returns to earth, she discovers that people live their lives without appreciating or sharing the moment of living" (quote from CliffsNotes) With tears in her eyes, Emily turns to the "Stage Manager" and asks, "Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? --every, every minute?" The "Stage Manager," answers, "No," and then after pausing adds, "The saints and poets, maybe -- they do some." Steve would add to "saints and poets" another set of people who understand living life's moments: the Sexual Minorieties who often risk the lost of family and friend to live the gift of life as God intended it for them. |