We really liked Jay Bakker, son of Jim and the late Tammy Faye, when we saw him on his Sundance Channel reality show a few years back. So we were really glad to see that the sensible Jay is still on his mission to make Christianity more gay-inclusive. The bespectacled Christian punk's latest? Well, he's currently working with the peaceful and passionate Soulforce group to encourage megachurch pastors to sit down and have a conversation with the LGBT families that they have either demonized or ignored. Especially megachurch superstar Joel Osteen: Gay group reaches out to ...

Source: Houston Chronicle , Proud Parenting , Soulforce press release At a press conference in Houston Wednesday, Jay Bakker, a New York City pastor, issued an open invitation to families from Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church - the largest church in the U.S. -- to share a picnic with LGBT families in Houston’s Levy Park on Saturday, May 10, 2008. The son of evangelical Tammy Faye Bakker Messner hopes to spend his first Mother's Day weekend since her death at a picnic in Houston with members of Osteen's church and members of Houston's LGBT community. The proposed picnic is part of ...

With Tammy Faye Bakker dead and buried, son Jay Bakker will probably have a pretty lonely Mother’s Day weekend But, wait! What’s that? There are gays in need of Bakker-patented preaching? Hoo-rah! Bakker’s currently in Texas petitioning anti-gay preacher man Joel Osteen to join a “non-traditional family” picnic this Saturday. Bakker says he wants to do two things: one, honor his mother and, two, praise Jesus. At least one of things is really gay. I want to celebrate my mother’s life and help spread the message she lived and preached. We need to stop thinking of ourselves as ‘us’ ...