Pearson, der Leads\u00e4nger der Rockband \u00abEveryday Sunday\u00bb, l\u00fcftet das Geheimnis seiner sexuellen Orientierung. Er konfrontiert sich hierbei nicht nur mit seiner eigenen Familie, seinen Freunden und seinem Vatersein, ebenso setzt er eine erfolgreiche Karriere als Musiker aufs Spiel. Das Album \u00abBest Night Of Our Lives\u00bb war nicht nur in den christlichen Charts erfolgreich, es fand auch in die \u00abBillboard Top 200\u00bb.<\/p>\n
\u00abIch wollte nie schwul sein. Ich hatte Angst davor, was Gott und alle Menschen, die ich liebe, denken w\u00fcrden. Aber wenn meine Ehrlichkeit dar\u00fcber, wer ich bin und wer Gott aus mir machte, sich nicht in Frieden zeigt, dem Verst\u00e4ndnis zuteil wird, dann weiss ich nicht, wann das der Fall sein sollte. Es ist, als w\u00e4re die Last, die ich all die Jahre getragen hatte, von meinen Schultern gefallen. Ich habe nie derartige Freiheit gef\u00fchlt.\u00bb<\/p>\n
Das wichtigste f\u00fcr Pearson pers\u00f6nlich ist die Akzeptanz seiner Familie, eben jene Menschen, die christlich-konservative Werte leben und lehrten, was den S\u00e4nger pr\u00e4gte und zwanzig Jahre daran hinderte, sich zu seiner Homosexualit\u00e4t zu bekennen. Seine Familie habe ausschliesslich mit Liebe reagiert, sagt Pearson: \u00abMein Vater kam bei mir vorbei und umarmte mich einfach sehr lange, genau, was ich wirklich brauchte.\u00bb<\/p>\n
Hier der offene Brief von \u00abReligion News Service\u00bb<\/a>:<\/p>\n Most of us reach at least one pivotal moment in our lives that better defines who we are.<\/em><\/p>\n These last several months have been the hardest \u2013 but have also ended up being the most freeing months \u2014 of my life.<\/em><\/p>\n To make an extremely long story short, I have come to be able to admit to myself, and to my family, that I am gay.<\/em><\/p>\n I grew up in a very conservative Christian home where I was taught that my sexual orientation was a matter of choice, and had put all my faith into that. I had never before admitted to myself that I was gay, let alone to anyone else. I never wanted to be gay. I was scared of what God would think and what all of these people I loved would think about me; so it never was an option for me. I have been suppressing these attractions and feelings since adolescence. I\u2019ve tried my whole life to be straight. I married a girl, and I even have two beautiful little kids. My daughter, Liv, is six and my son, Beckham, is two.<\/em><\/p>\n I had always romanticized the idea of falling in love with a woman; and having a family had always been my dream. In many ways, that dream has come true. But I have also come to realize a lot of time has passed in my life pushing away, blocking out and not dealing with real feelings going on inside of me. I have tried not to be gay for more than 20 years of my life. I found so much comfort as a teen in 1 Samuel 18-20 and the intimacy of Jonathan and David. I thought and hoped that such male intimacy could fulfill that void I felt in my desire for male companionship. I always thought if I could find these intimate friendships, then that would be enough.<\/em><\/p>\n Then I thought everything would come naturally on my wedding night. I honestly had never even made out with a girl before I got married. Of course, it felt anything but natural for me. Trying not to be gay, has only led to a desire for intimacy in friendships which pushed friends away, and it has resulted in a marriage where I couldn\u2019t love or satisfy my wife in a way that she needed. Still, I tried to convince myself that this was what God wanted and that this would work. I thought all of those other feelings would stay away if I could just do this right.<\/em><\/p>\n When Lauren and I got married, I committed to loving her to the best of my ability, and I had the full intention of spending the rest of my life with her. Despite our best efforts, however, I have come to accept that there is nothing that is going to change who I am.<\/em><\/p>\n I have intensely mixed feelings about the changes that have resulted in my life. While I regret the way I was taught to handle this growing up, how much it has hurt me and the unintentional pain I have brought Lauren, I wouldn\u2019t have the friendship I now have with her, and we wouldn\u2019t have our two amazing, beautiful children. But if I keep trying to push this down it will end up hurting her even more.<\/em><\/p>\n I am never going to be able to change how I am, and no matter how healthy our relationship becomes, it\u2019s never going to change what I know deep down: that I am gay. Lauren has been the most supportive, understanding, loving and gracious person I could ever ask for, as I have come to face this. And now I am trying to figure out how to co-parent while being her friend, and how to raise our children.<\/em><\/p>\n I have progressed so much in my faith over these last several years. I think I needed to be able to affirm other gay people before I could ever accept it for myself. Likewise, I couldn\u2019t expect others to accept me how I am until I could come to terms with it first.<\/em><\/p>\n I know I have a long way to go. But if this honesty with myself about who I am, and who I was made by God to be, doesn\u2019t constitute as the peace that passes all understanding, then I don\u2019t know what does. It is like this weight I have been carrying my whole life has been lifted from me, and I have never felt such freedom.<\/em><\/p>\n In sharing this publicly I\u2019m taking another step into health and wholeness by accepting myself, and every part of me. It\u2019s not only an idea for me that I\u2019m gay; It\u2019s my life. This is me being authentic and real with myself and other people. This is a part of who I am.<\/em><\/p>\n I hope people will hear my heart, and that I will still be loved. I\u2019m still the same guy, with the same heart, who wants to love God and love people with everything I have. This is a part of me I have come to be able to accept, and now it is a part of me that you know as well. I trust God to help love do the rest.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2013 Trey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In einem sehr intimen und offenen Brief teilt der christliche Musiker, Trey Pearson, seinen Fans mit, dass er schwul ist. Der 35-J\u00e4hrige, der mit seiner Band schon durch 50 US-Staaten tourte, ver\u00f6ffentlichte sein Gest\u00e4ndnis auf \u00abReligion News Service\u00bb. 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\nTo my fans and friends:<\/em><\/p>\n