(RNS) ‘we never ever wished to be gay,’ Trey Pearson stated. ‘I happened to be scared of what Jesus would thought and just what all of these individuals I cherished would contemplate me.’

(RNS) “I don’t mean to cry. it is merely already been way too long coming.”

Trey Pearson, 35, was actually over come with feelings halfway into our very own earliest meeting, and is clear and understandable precisely why. For the past fifteen years, he’s become the lead artist of well-known Christian rock-band every day Sunday. But the guy decided to place his career on the line this week and acknowledge to their followers that he’s gay.

“I finally chose to emerge because I couldn’t keep attempting to feel something I found myselfn’t,” the guy informs me.

Pearson’s statement isn’t any lightweight story. Since 2001, regularly Sunday features ended up selling around 25 % of so many records. His track “Wake Up! Wake Up!” got the most-played Christian stone tune of 2007, along with his 2009 record album, “Best Night of our everyday life,” smashed onto the coveted Billboard 200 data.