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I was trying to find an article to verify this info and this was in the top results:
https://sfl.media/former-gay-cure-ministry-leader-arrested-after-allegedly-trying-to-meet-14-year-old-boy-in-florida-sting/
This is the article I could find about a "gay cure" pastor having a gay marriage:
https://gay.blog.br/en/gay-en/former-pastor-who-preached-gay-cure-now-lives-in-marriage-with-another-man/
It might be a different pastor tho?
I think both articles are different people. It appears this guys name is John Smid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smid
Looks like it, thanks for the assist!
I didn't think the first article was him, but it is just another instance of a "beacon of morality (Christian pastor)" trying to commit one of the greatest evils. Great documentation to show people who think "secularism" indicates a lack of morality.