I realize this is old, but I was doing a search and came across this. It was posted on a Southern Gospel Forum from several years back.
BILL GAITHER AND "CHRISTIAN HOMOSEXUALS" - TAKING
THE JUDGE NOT PHILOSOPHY TO NEW LEVELS.
Friday Church News Notes, January 27, 2006 (David Cloud,
www.wayoflife.org fbns@wayoflife.org,
866-295-4143)
Since the early 1990s, the
Gaither's Homecoming CD and video series has
dramatically increased the popularity of Southern
Gospel music in this generation. Sadly, Bill
Gaither has used his vast influence to promote
the lie that music is neutral and thus to
encourage the deep inroads that the world has
made into Southern Gospel. He has also promoted
the unscriptural ecumenical movement with its
bogus "judge not" philosophy and its lack of
concern about doctrinal purity. In late 2002,
Bill Gaither and Mark Lowry met with and
encouraged Marsha Stevens, the lesbian author of
the popular gospel song "For These Tears I Died."
Stevens, who has a ministry called BALM (Born
Again Lesbian Music), attended the Gaither
Homecoming concert in Phoenix in December 2002,
with her lesbian partner. Mark Lowry, who has
sung with the Gaither Vocal Band for many years,
approached her and said that he was proud of what
she is doing. Surprised, she said, "You know what
I'm doing now?" He replied: "I sure do and I wish
the fundamentalists would find Jesus. They're
going to have a lot to answer for, leaving out
people that Jesus died for" (Marsha Stevens, New
Years Eve 2002 with Bill Gaither,"
www.christiangays.com). Bill and Gloria Gaither
then came over and told her that they, too,
appreciate her ministry today. A photo at
Stevens' web site shows her and her lesbian
partner with Bill Gaither and Mark Lowry. In the
last part of the concert later that night,
Gaither invited the crowd to sing along to "For
Those Tears I Died." He then said: "You know, the
young woman who wrote that song is here with us
tonight, and maybe you're like she was and you've
heard about a God who would reject you for who
you are or who might turn you away for something
you've done or where you've come from. Well I
want you to know that I don't know that God. The
only God I know is the one in this song that she
wrote. The one that says, 'I am right here for
you.' The one who sent His son. The one who says,
'You are my child, I love you, come stand by my
side.' So sing with me again!"
stmatthew 
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