Michael Glatze: Evangelical Christianity, Dispensationalism and the Rapture are heresies

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In case you haven't seen or heard of the movie I Am Michael starring James Franco, Michael Glatze was a gay activist who, after a health scare, turned to God, gradually became anti-gay, became a pastor and married a woman.

Now it seems he has renounced AND denounced all forms of protestant Christianity as much as he did his former sexuality:

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In case you haven't seen or heard of the movie I Am Michael starring James Franco, Michael Glatze was a gay activist who, after a health scare, turned to God, gradually became anti-gay, became a pastor and married a woman.

Now it seems he has renounced AND denounced all forms of protestant Christianity as much as he did his former sexuality:

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A bit confused. What does the FB narrative of a film producer have to do with the religious convictions of Michael Glatze? These are two different Michaels.

The FB rant is from a Producer Michael Elliott.

Glatze is still Christian and has not denounced Christianity:

A Gay Activist's Journey To Christian Fundamentalism: 'I Am Michael'

A-List Actors Portray Remarkable Story of Ex-Homosexual Who 'Found God'

I must conclude your title is false. Hopefully it was an oversight and can still be corrected. Mr. Glatze may just find this piece as slander.
 
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Hi Emanuel, the above seems little more than the sad rant of a man whose past involves abuse, and who now feels powerless because of it. Since 2007, Michael Glatze has become an "EX"-man ;) .. ex-Gay (or was he "bi" all along and never "gay", the question remains??), ex-Mormon, ex-Buddhist, ex-Evangelical. Now he's trying on Catholicism for size (or is he :scratch: .. his recent history suggests that we won't have to wait long to find out).

He seems like a man who is looking for answers to his pain (or is he simply looking for attention ... or both)? I haven't seen the movie, but from what I've read by and about him (including what you posited above for us), the latter seems most likely.

I hope he finds the answers and more of the healing he is seeking from God this side of Glory.

Yours and His,
David
The rant is by Michael Elliott not Glantze. I could not find one quote or article from or on Glantze renouncing Christianity for another religion.
 
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The rant is by Michael Elliott not Glantze. I could not find one quote or article from or on Glantze renouncing Christianity for another religion.

That article wasn't written by Glatze? Wow, I'll take my post down since my comments above were based largely upon that.

Thanks RLH :)
 
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That article wasn't written by Glatze? Wow, I'll take my post down since my comments above were based largely upon that.

Thanks RLH :)

The piece was written by a Michael Elliott. Just some regular "Joe" ranting on FB. Unless the OP can show us a connection, this is a false article.
 
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A bit confused. What does the FB narrative of a film producer have to do with the religious convictions of Michael Glatze? These are two different Michaels.

The FB rant is from a Producer Michael Elliott.

Glatze is still Christian and has not denounced Christianity:

A Gay Activist's Journey To Christian Fundamentalism: 'I Am Michael'

A-List Actors Portray Remarkable Story of Ex-Homosexual Who 'Found God'

I must conclude your title is false. Hopefully it was an oversight and can still be corrected. Mr. Glatze may just find this piece as slander.

This review is proof that Michael Glatze and Michael Elliott are one and the same (by the way, his full name is Michael Elliott Glatze):

Elliott Candle: Why I Love "I Am Michael"

He reviews his own movie, praising it and talking about his life's experiences.

Besides, don't you find it a bit too coincidental that both Michaels have a wife named Rebekah and used to pastor a church in Wyoming?
 
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That article wasn't written by Glatze? Wow, I'll take my post down since my comments above were based largely upon that.

Thanks RLH :)
No, he REALLY is Glatze. He just removed his last name and is using his middle name as his surname. Google "Michael Elliott Glatze."
 
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I didn't even know who he was, I had to google his name.

It could really be him, posting under an alias.

In the past he has apologized about hurting people in the LGBT community, so I think it is possible he is no longer as attached to his particular religious identity.
 
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No, he REALLY is Glatze. He just removed his last name and is using his middle name as his surname. Google "Michael Elliott Glatze."
You really don't have another source to confirm this?

I'm sure if he converted to Catholicism it would be front page news.
 
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You really don't have another source to confirm this?

I'm sure if he converted to Catholicism it would be front page news.

He may not have actually converted. He may be just attending services there, and be somewhat sympathetic. You don't actually have to be Roman Catholic to go to their services.
 
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I didn't even know who he was, I had to google his name.

It could really be him, posting under an alias.

In the past he has apologized about hurting people in the LGBT community, so I think it is possible he is no longer as attached to his particular religious identity.
Yes but the reasoning given was rapture theories.

I find it hard to believe if someone this focal in being deemed ex-gay, married and then becomes Catholic, the coming home Catholic site would make this news page 1. They did with Scott Hahn.
 
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I find it hard to believe if someone this focal in being deemed ex-gay, married and then becomes Catholic, the coming home Catholic site would make this news page 1. They did with Scott Hahn.

I could see a lot of Roman Catholic ministries approaching this very cautiously, especially if he is only sympathetic at this point.
 
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I could see a lot of Roman Catholic ministries approaching this very cautiously, especially if he is only sympathetic at this point.

After all, he's been into atheism/agnosticism, born-again Christianity, queer theology, Mormonism, Buddhism, conservative Christianity, Buddhism (again), Presbyterianism, non-denominational Christianity, and now seemingly Catholicism. And every single time he attacks the group he previously belonged to.
 
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I don't see respectable Catholics wanting to court controversy by making Glatze a "poster boy". Having known a few gay Catholics over the years, even one who was very much a conservative in matters of personal obedience, I know that the Church's attitude is far more nuanced on this issue than what many Evangelical Protestants would acknowledge. The Roman Catholic Church does not challenge legitimate scientific findings concerning homosexuality, and the official apostolate or ministry to those with same-sex attraction in North America does not necessarily endorse the notion of an "ex-gay" identity.
 
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I got the following message from someone named James Hartline:

As I learned very quickly early on in my correspondences with Michael Glatze, I cannot get along with a person who is all over the map in his theology and his approach to Christianity. Mr. Glatze simply wants a microphone and wants the floor even when he isn’t qualified to be speaking on a topic. His form of Christianity is a patchwork quilt of superficial ideas that he collects in the same fashion as an antique dealer collects old trinkets. Once he has collected a few trinkets he self-declares himself an expert on that trinket collection without the benefit of having any serious, deep education on the history and the meaning and historical significance of said trinkets.

In the short time that Glatze has been a self-declared ex-gay Christian he has short-circuited paying the dues that any reputable Christian pastor or evangelist has had to pay, to sacrifice and to suffer, to earn the right to be a God-ordained minister. This is in large part due to the corrupt and media-money-hungry pro-family ministries that are constantly in search of a token ex-gay personality that they can use, abuse and wave vindicatively at the equally corrupt and media-money-hungry radicalized gay political machine that drives the core engine of America’s cultural homosexual movement. Without even considering his lack of dedication to Jesus Christ or the fact that he had zero examples of sacrificing his life for Christianity, the pro-family hucksters baptized Mr. Glatze as their latest professional ex-gay token. It is one more reason why I, as a former homosexual who has been faithfully and very publicly serving Christ inside of one of the largest homosexual communities in the United States for 20 years, cannot be involved in most of the so-called professional pro-family organizational groups. They reek with corruption, superficiality, insincerity, greed and hypocrisy. Which is explains why they all so easily made so many backroom deals with demonic Donald Trump.

Michael Glatze has gone from Mormonism to Catholicism to implied Buddhism and now the inevitable appeasement and apology tourism that is the infamous trademark of the professional ex-gay movement. The professional ex-gay movement is so utterly superificial in its relationship with Christ and it is their rejection of Christ’s mandate for all Christ-followers to willingly suffer and embrace sacrificial self-denial that defines the never ending hypocrisy of the likes of Alan Chambers, Randy Thomas, John Paulk and now Michael Glatze. They all have one thing in common: the refusal to pick up one’s cross to follow Christ. The narcissism and the sinful, selfish desire to serve and worship self which is at the core of homosexuality and the gay political movement is simply tranferred into the professional ex-gay movement leaders’ lives and therein lies their complete failure to change the culture and to win converts out of homosexuality to follow Christ.

I attempted to warn Michael Glatze that he was making seriously flawed theological decisions and his beliefs were not sound Biblical ones. He wouldn’t listen. All he wanted to do was “school me” on Christianity and preach at me. I have been following the Lord for decades. My testimony as an ex-homosexual for 20 years who is battling a very famous scientific case of AIDS all the while living – not in some “safe” insulated little conservative town in Wyoming – but inside of the 4th largest gay community in America, has been broadcast all over the world and shared on many TV and news programs including the 700 Club, newspapers, radio show and magazines. I have written hundreds of articles and produced over 60,000 photographs and 400 videos of my life as a born again Christian ex-homosexual living inside of the gay community. Thousands upon thousands of gays see me everyday and how I live my life as a Christian ex-homosexual, and not one of them can ever say they have witnessed me returning to homosexuality. Yet, in all of my communications with Mr. Glatze, he wanted to teach me what Christianity is and isn’t, he wanted to instruct me on “correct” theology. He had no real desire to actually listen or learn from my mistakes, my experiences or my knowledge of God and the Bible. The reality is, he just wants to be the boss, the show and time will eventually unveil a Michael Glatze who never really humbled himself and had a true born again Christian experience. Rather, he simply mutated and adapted to his circumstances in a manner that accomodated his pursuit of self-comfortability – something that seems be disasterously innate in both the professional ex-gay movement and the radicalized gay political movement.
 
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