Publisher of African American Magazine for Homosexuals Announces Conversion to Christ

She Publicly Rejected Her Old Lifestyle

The publisher of a magazine targeted toward African American homosexuals announced her conversion to Christianity on the magazine's website. Her conversion was announced on the news website, www.onenews.com yesterday. In her article, the publisher of Venus Magazine rejected the lesbian lifestyle she has lived her adult life.

In the actual article on the website of the magazine, Charlene E. Cothran said that although "over the past 29 years of my life I have been an aggressive, creative, and strategic supporter of gay and lesbian issues" and have "organized in countless marches, and various lobbying efforts in the fight for the equal treatment of gay men and lesbians," she must now come out of the closet herself-as a Christian.

She wrote that as a believer in Jesus Christ she "fully accepts and have always known that same-sex relationships are not what God intended for us. I have recently experienced the change that came over me once I completely surrendered to the teachings of Jesus Christ."

The publisher of the 13-year-old magazine for African American homosexuals recalled that her conversion to Christ started with a talk with the pastor of a local church. She said that meeting highlighted doubts she had about reconciling her homosexual lifestyle with the biblical prohibition on sex outside of a marriage between one man and one woman.

The publisher wrote that she believes God's Spirit spoke to her that she had to choose whom she would serve, and if she made the wrong choice, He would let her drift permanently away from Him. She said she became a follower of Jesus Christ at that time in her car.

"A river of tears flowed as Jesus washed me and forgave me and redeemed me for his work," Cothran wrote.

The publisher wrote that although her work with homosexuals will continue, she will now work toward showing homosexuals how they can leave their lifestyle.