Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

Davis of Raze, Eddie Degarmo, Michael English, RyanGingerich, Amy Grant, Stacy Jones of the rap group Grits,Dana Key, Bob Larson, Mylon LeFevre, Nikki Leonti, SandiPatty (who admitted to committing adultery with at least twomen and who le her husband for one of her backup singers),Kevin Prosch, Michael W. Smith, John Michael Talbot, Randyomas, Greg Volz of Petra, Sheila Walsh, Wayne Watson,Deniece Williams, and members of the now disbandedBarnabas. Melody Green, widowed wife of Keith Green,divorced her second husband, Andrew Sievright.Homosexuality has also been a part of the CCM movement.In e Gospel Sound, which first appeared in 1971, AnthonyHeilbut said, “e gospel church has long been a refuge forgays and lesbians, some of whom grew up to be among thegreatest singers and musicians.”Douglas Harrison, a homosexual who grew up SouthernBaptist, said, “... you can’t swing a Dove Award withouthitting upon evidence of the longstanding, deep-set presenceof queer experience in, and its influence on, Christian musicculture at all levels” (“Come Out from among em,” ReligionDispatches, April 30, 2010).In 1 9 9 8 , C C M s t a r K i r k Fr a n k l i n s a i d t h at“homosexuality ... is a problem today in gospel music--aMAJOR CONCERN--and everybody knows it” (Church Boy,pp. 49, 50).James Cleveland, who has been called the “King of Gospel,”was a homosexual who died of AIDS.Other homosexual CCM artists are Anthony Williams,Marshal Stevens, Kirk Talley, Clay Aiken, Ray Boltz, andJennifer Knapp.In June 2013 Sandi Patty is scheduled to performed withthe homosexual Turtle Creek Chorale at the MeyersonSymphony Center in Dallas, Texas. In July 2012 the Choraleattended the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses37