Sep
18
2008
Ray Boltz Admits He’s Gay
The Christian community was shocked last week when Christian music artist Ray Boltz (famous for songs like “Thank-you” and “Watch the Lamb”) came out of the closet at 55 years old and admitted that he was gay:
News of Boltz’s gay lifestyle has been spreading far and wide after the pro-gay Washington Blade published an exclusive feature last Friday on the Gospel singer, who only four years ago revealed to his family “the darkness and struggle” he was going through.
In the recent interview, Boltz said he denied his sexuality ever since he was a kid, and when he became a Christian in the early 1970s, he “thought that was the way to deal with this.”
“I prayed hard and tried for 30-some years,” he recalled, “and then at the end, I was just going, ‘I’m still gay. I know I am.’ And I just got to the place where I couldn’t take it anymore … when I was going through all this darkness, I thought, ‘Just end this.’”
Read the rest of this sad story here.