NEW DIRECTION: The former gospel star says his new music will still have a spiritual core
FORMER GOSPEL artist Tonex, now known as B Slade, has a new album called Diesal.
He has also been sharing how coming out as a gay man has had an impact on his life and music.
When B Slade was known as Tonex, he had a successful recording career on Verity Records, and was seen as one of gospel’s most talented and cutting edge artists.
However, he shocked his fans and the gospel music industry when he openly admitted that he was gay in 2009.
Following his revelation, he underwent a total transformation of his image and the music he makes.
B Slade told essence.com that although his career as a gospel artist is now in the past there will still be a spiritual core to his music. When asked to share how B Slade differs from Tonex he replied, “B Slade is a recording activist.
Tonex was more of just a recording artist. This brand represents the essence of the Black Sheep, the person who pretty much has all the odds against him, that phoenix rising aura about them.”
Since coming out B Slade has admitted he has experienced more freedom, and hasn’t ruled out marrying as a gay man. He was married to a woman when he was Tonex.
He said “I wouldn’t say it’s not an option. I think that love is for everyone.”
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Comments“ I would not apologise if I
“ I would not apologise if I was "gay" you are what you are and people should stop being judgemental, because when the day of judgement come, all you "so call christian" are going straight to hell. You bunch of hypocritic”
The person who wrote the above sound to me like a hard core sodomite that is why he is so quick to defend this sodomy. God hate sodomy so much that he burnt up Sodom and Gomorrah with brimstone and fire and left only Ashes.. Yes murder and adultery is wrong but it is no excuse to condone sodomy. Sodomy attacks the core of what the Church is about as God made male and female and no one is ever born a sodomite, just like no one is born a murderer of adulterer. They develop these sexual practices based on their experiences and through choice. You will join all the so called Christians who are sinners in hell if you give up sodomy.
I strongly suggest you read the following bible scriptures
Jesus is the same God in the news who became flesh and dwelt among us – KJV John cpt 1
KJV Romans Chpt 1 vs 27 “And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one towards another: men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meat”
“ I would not apologise if I
“ I would not apologise if I was "gay" you are what you are and people should stop being judgemental, because when the day of judgement come, all you "so call christian" are going straight to hell. You bunch of hypocritic”
The person who wrote the above sound to me like sodomite that is why you are so quick to defend this sodomy. God hate sodomy so much that y he burnt up Sodom and Gomorrah with brimstone and fire. Yes murder and adultery is wrong also and is no excuse to condone sodomy. Sodomy attacks the core of what the Church is about as God made male and female and no one is ever born a sodomite. They develop these sexual practices based on their experiences and through choice. You will join all the so called Christians who are sinners in hell if you give up sodomy.
I strongly suggest you read the following bible scriptures.
Jesus is the same God in the news who became flesh and dwelt among us – KJV John cpt 1
KJV Romans Chpt 1 vs 27 “And likewise also the men leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their lust one towards another: men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meat”
How did anyone not guess he
How did anyone not guess he is gay before, after looking at him?
A Christain must follow teh
A Christain must follow teh bible and it clearly sated in both teh old and new testiment that sodomy is wrong. In Romans chapet One and in Genesis. The church be spearate for teh worldleeness and cannot embrase this political correctness. Political correctness has no place in chruch. Th echruch must be goven by teh word of God which clear stated that sodomy is an abomination. You cannot dress that up and sugar coat it. This young man needs to repent and the only way he can repent is to trun away completly from such practices, not continue in them as if its is okay.
Every Single One of Us Is ONE OF US
Bless you, B Slade
Good for you! - about time someone in the Christian church stood up on this issue and told the truth and shamed the devil!
Given that we are ALL made in God's image its about time the Church stopped using its OWN prejudices to persecute its own children and loved ones.
I pray that the time is coming when we will realise that ALL men and women are created equal and that we can learn to love, honour, cherish and respect each and every one of them/us.
"Every single one of us is ONE of US"
Physical and spiritual
Physical and spiritual relationships are based upon the universal laws of nature and the physiological/anatomical design of all creatures to function in natural relationships determined by such criteria.
So when people say 'religion' is against such what they fail to see is that the very act of same-sex relations is against itself (refer to first paragraph).
Some claim Jesus never spoke out against same-sex relations therefore it's not against God's will? But why would Jesus need to when he made the following statement:-
"In the original creation, God made male and female to be together....Because God created this organic union of the two sexes, no one should desecrate his art by cutting them apart." - Mark 10:6-9
god spell artist
Typical, you people always have something to say, about not in god's name etc.... but the bible also says "thou shall not kill" but that does not stop people killing, it also say thou shall not commit adultery and again. Trouble is you people do not know the bible and just take it at face value, but if you actually take time and READ the bible you will understand the words
"love one another". I would not apologise if I was "gay" you are what you are and people should stop being judgemental, because when the day of judgement come, all you "so call christian" are going straight to hell. You bunch of hypocritics
Love is for everyone but
Love is for everyone but please, not in gods name. Man not to lay man. So says every major religion.
Christian Hypocrisy
Actually it doesn't - Buddhism says nothing about being Gay - and 'shall not lie with man' has been hyped up historically by the Christian church to the point where many Christians genuinely believe (wrongly) that being gay is the worst sin in the Bible.
In Leviticus (which is the bit that most Christians (including yourself) reference there is no more weight given to a man lying with another man as he would a woman than there is to men who commit adultery yet modern day Christians are rarely heard upholding the notion that an adulterer should be killed...
There is more weight given to eating shell fish and wearing mixed fibres in your clothing yet very few Christian churches would be complete without poly-cotton dresses and suits!
I urge every Christian who reads this to instead follow Jesus's example on the matter of homosexuality (he said nothing on the subject at all!)