Robert Morris, what the Dallas Morning News didn't tell you. Update: Resigned. Updates 2, 3. People knew.
A homophobic leader of a homophobic church is exposed.
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UPDATE 3: Four more elders resign after law firm report.
UPDATE 2: Chuch accused of knowing about the full details all along.
This is the story. As an LGBT strike force action item share this everywhere.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/robert-morris-accuser-says-gateway-church-knew-of-his-crime.html
UPDATE: He resigned.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/robert-morris-resigns-gateway-elders-launch-investigation.html
Pastor Robert Morris of Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas
As always I submitted links when I could to the Internet Archive. If the webpage is deleted, you can find it at the achive.
The name seemed familiar and I found the church in one of the lists of churches at the Living Hope Ministries website so I thought it would be good to review this church.
News reporting on the scandal
The following are the articles about the scandal itself. Morris then a youth minister was having sexual activities with a girl starting at age 12.
The scandal was first reported at
The Wartburg Watch
It was confirmed in the Christian Post:
It was confirmed by Robert Morris as something that he had done back in the 1980s and had been dealth with then involving the church and elders and some review that is supposed to have made it not a matter for the police to be called.
“When I was in my early twenties, I was involved in inappropriate sexual behavior with a young lady in a home where I was staying. It was kissing and petting and not intercourse, but it was wrong. This behavior happened on several occasions over the next few years,” Morris said in a statement to The Christian Post after Gateway Church was asked about the allegations.
“In March of 1987, this situation was brought to light, and it was confessed and repented of. I submitted myself to the Elders of Shady Grove Church and the young lady’s father. They asked me to step out of ministry and receive counseling and freedom ministry, which I did. Since that time, I have walked in purity and accountability in this area,” Morris added.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/pastor-robert-morris-confesses-to-moral-failure.html
The Dallas Morning News reported on it when it had the status of an allegation, that is they couldn’t independently confirm it.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/faith/2024/06/16/robert-morris-abuse-1980s/
The Dallas Morning News then had an article about what you need to know about Robert Morris. One thing they didn’t think you needed to know was about his homophobia.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/faith/2024/06/16/robert-morris-abuse-1980s/
So this post will tell about Robert Morris’ homophobia and this post will be added to a directory of Dallas Morning News posts that cover up or omit or are problematic about reporting on homophobia.
Before discussing the homophobia, the online presence of Morris and Gateway Church.
https://gatewaypeople.com/staff/robert-morris
https://equiplibrary.gatewaypeople.com/library/
https://linktr.ee/psrobertmorris
https://www.facebook.com/PsRobertTV/
https://www.instagram.com/psroberttv/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOTbquXxZDFfMMc_R-TuAww
The following articl documents he has a King’s University
The homophobia
One of the signatories on a full page ad against Gay marriage in the Washington Post.
The letter was published in an ad in the Washington Post and was signed by many prominent pastors and Christian leaders, many from Texas, including: Pastor Robert Jeffress at First Baptist Church Dallas, Pastor Robert Morris at Gateway Church in Southlake, Pastor Charles Hagee at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Pastor Gregg Matte at Houston’s First Baptist Church, and Pastor Steve Riggle at Grace Church in Houston. Here is a portion of the letter:
We are Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox Christian pastors, clergy, lay leaders and Jewish leaders, who collectively represent millions of people in our specific churches, parishes, denominations, synagogues and media ministry outreaches. Marriage transcends our various theological differences and unites us together in one voice.
We affirm that any judicial opinion which purports to redefine marriage will constitute an unjust law, as Martin Luther King Jr. described such laws in his letter from the Birmingham Jail.
We are Christians who love America and who respect the legitimate rule of law.
However, we will not honor any decision by the Supreme Court which will force us to violate a clear biblical understanding of marriage as solely the union of one man and one woman.
https://txvalues.org/pastors-tell-supreme-court-we-must-obey-god-rather-than-men/
This document at Gateway Church tells us that the Anti-Christ might be homosexual.
Other descriptions of the Antichrist.
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Daniel 11:37 – he will not have the desire of women. A eunuch? A homosexual?
https://cf1.gatewaypeople.com/production/fae/file/asset/1163/10-14-17_Who_is_the_Anti-Christ.pdf
At Gateway they think Christian faith will end homosexuality.
https://gatewaypeople.com/stories/finding-his-identity
King’s University President had this regarding the LGBTQ+.
It is an interview with a Pastor Landon Schott who wrote a book, Gay Awareness, about how to get the LGBT to give up being LGBT and become their type of Christian.
This is a link to the book.
https://www.amazon.com/Gay-Awareness-Discovering-Father-Sexuality/dp/1942306482
Some excepts from the interview, link supplied below. The first section is about him founding a church and they are so excited, etc.
Then the Gay Awareness section starts.
Landon: And so, this really started, just in my journey. I was 20 years old, I was living in Seattle and I was walking through the mall. I was going through the Nordstrom’s department store and some guy wearing makeup asked me if I wanted to sample makeup. And I remember like, “No, dude.” And I walked out and I was just so disgusted. And I said in my heart, I might have said it out loud, “Be a man.”
Jon: Wow.
Landon: And I walked out of the department store into the mall area and the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, “You’ll never reach him if you don’t love him.”
Jon: That’s so good. Yeah.
Landon: And this piercing conviction that only can come from the Lord, entered my heart and I just said, “Lord, help me start loving what you love.”
Jon: Wow.
Landon: And so, that began the journey. And then, I noticed that there are these young men that were struggling with same sex attraction, that were constantly around me. And then, this frustration started growing in me like none of the champions, none of my leaders, none of the guys I look up to our talking about this and so many people are struggling with it. And so, in my Jezebel book there was a chapter on sexuality. And I wrote about how Jezebel was the originator of child sacrifice. Homosexual prostitution, heterosexual prostitution in the Baal worship. And when the females gave birth to babies they would murder those children on the Altar of Baal.
Jon: Wow.
Landon: It was this perverse, just orgies of sexuality and all sexuality was endorsed. When I began to write that chapter in my Jezebel book, that’s when the first time the Holy Spirit said, “You’ll write a book on this.” What I found is, in obedience the Lord will always give you the next assignments. You’ll always plant the seed for the next assignment. That’s the journey where it came from a heart of disgust, where the Lord had to begin to do surgery and work on my heart. Then loving on people, not seeing it ministered, and then writing that book, in that chapter is where the Lord really prompted this. And then I spent about three years writing this book. I actually wrote it on my iPhone for about three years.
Jon: Wow. Did you really?
Landon: And when I went to go print out my notes, I had 57 typed pages of notes.
https://collective.tku.edu/the-church-and-the-lgbtq-community/
Counter measures, try to be kinder to other Gays
A lot of Gays are struggling with issues, and they may for one reason or another be on the border line. Be kind in your interactions and occassionally be willing to lend an ear. It might be the little thing that boosts someone’s spirits so they aren’t vulnerable to these Christian predators. Don’t be snotty. You know who you are.
I was once at the Village Station on Cedar Springs a long time ago. To kill time I was talking to another person there, the crusing (witching) hour was a ways off. It turns out that this person was Christian was having trouble accepting the Big Bang theory, and yours truly, who has had a life time interest in astronomy was willing to explain. The issue was in the beginning of discussion was how time could have a beginning. I explained how we are very finite and so to us time seems infinite. That just as a street begins and ends, time can have a beginning and end, and we live on just on block of that very long street. Our minds’ function and perceptions and experiences are shaped by that experience.
I was progressing on the explanation, but it wasn’t the real issue. Finally he said, “If time has a beginning, how can there be a God?” He had concluded that if time had a beginning then God couldn’t exist prior to time and hence had a beginning also and wouldn’t be God.
I then realized this was a much simpler problem. I said, “God doesn’t need time, he is God, and is beyond time.” The idea that reality might be greater than space-time was new to him. It resolved his crisis in faith and the Big Bang.
(I am agnostic, but I also realize that if a God did exist, it wouldn’t be restrained by the realities we exist in.)
This wasn’t a crisis in being Gay, but it was a fellow Gay having a crisis, and I was willing to listen.
Other thoughts
We need to publicize scandals like this. The Gateway church has satelitte campuses and 100,000 members. As much as this scandal can be used we need to use it to break down this major menace to the LGBT.
In general we need to make sure these scandals are known widely.
We need also know that they are of a limited use. The non-denominational churches are personality cults and when one pastor falls, there a dozen others to push their delulu fetanyl Jesus to a willing group. But an ongoing series of abuses will reduce Christianity over time eroding it.
We need also tear apart the excuses they make. They may say, “No one is without sin, but when it comes to the LGBT they are all on us, and they want to do damage.
