Jay Wintermeyer served as an assistant to the president for communication for the Upper Columbia Conference. In 2019 he became the communication director and Gleaner editor for the North Pacific Union (NPUC).
In May of this year, a letter sent to the NPUC office outed Wintermeyer as a gay man. He was confronted by John Freedman, the NPUC president, and subsequently lost his job as editor of the Gleaner.
Wintermeyer blames the politics of an upcoming August union constituency session as the reason he was fired, implying that conference and union presidents want their image to be squeaky clean in order to be reelected.
There is some truth to the campaigning that often precedes the reelection of a president, nevertheless it is within the rights of a church organization to employ only individuals who conform to the moral standards of that organization. This is a basic ethical expectation.
Wintermeyer is defending his homosexuality as an impulse that cannot be changed. Look for an upcoming article by individuals who have allowed God to break the sin of LGBTQ in their lives. No matter what your sin is, the Bible has the solution.
I am amazed how God can change a life. Don’t believe the lie that we can’t stop sinning or resolve spiritual issues in our lives. Through repentance the heart can be set free and peace and joy can come back into our lives as the Holy Spirit takes away the guilt, shame and fear caused by our sin. There is hope!
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“And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God” (1 Corinthians 6:11).