As of lately there has been crazy drama happening because of the former guitarist of metalcore band For Today, Mike Reynolds.
On January 10th, he made posts on Twitter that "there is no such thing as a gay Christian" and that "homosexuality is a sin".
Fans and music lovers were offended and hurt by what he said so frontman, Mattie Montgomery made a video of apology to everybody.
Along with the post for the video on Facebook, Mattie wrote that Reynolds has left the band and is going to go to Bible college with his wife to become missionaries in the Middle East.
To me that sounds like he wanted to get out of this drama as fast as it started by flat out quitting.
The next day the Rou Reynolds, the frontman for Enter Shikari got wind of the news and was pissed off about the whole thing. He wrote a long blog post on the band's website saying that Mike Reynolds is an "insult to music and spirituality".
Now today Mike Reynolds is finally coming out to clarify what he said and attempt to save his ass.
He reiterates that homosexuality is a sin but not worse than any other sin mentioned in the Bible. He continues to say that with Christianity one cannot continuing living a sinful life and say that they are a Christian. So changing oneself is necessary to be a follower of Christ.
Personally, I think that homosexuality is okay but I understand where Mike is coming from with his perspective. I am glad that things are getting cleared up but I don't think that it will really effect their fan base or anything like that. Non-Christian bands may not want to play with them anymore but that is probably the only negative effect.
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