"We did this for nearly 15 years," he said. Marjoram was married to his second wife for 22 years and both were involved in programmes to help counsel gay people to be straight.
"I was surprised that I got that comment in New Zealand – it's the sort of discussion you'd expect from a redneck bible-basher in America," he said Marjoram studied theology at bible school for two years and said he had practised Christianity for most of his life. "I've taken a step back because the bible is so ambiguous it was probably never meant to be taken so literally." "There's 40,000 denominations of Christianity across the world and they all cherry-pick what they want to believe," he said. His faith helped him in the end but now Marjoram said he was "loosely" Christian after witnessing the worst and best of the religion. "Not being able to resolve the fact that I was gay, something unaccepted in my faith, was very painful." "On so many occasions I'd want to jump in front of a truck but my kids kept me going," he said. Marjoram said he had battled with depression and suicidal thoughts throughout his life so the comment stung. "We believe anything and everything found in the King James Version of the bible." Westcity Bible Baptist Church is a "family-oriented bible-believing Baptist church located in West Auckland", the website states. "Our church has a vision of reaching the lost souls of Auckland," the site says. Robertson is described on the Westcity Bible Baptist Church website as having a "love for the lost". Robertson today said he "didn't want anything in the papers" but admitted he had read a couple of the outraged comments on the church's Facebook page this morning. From there, it was also posted it to social forum Reddit, and the image went viral. Marjoram posted the text on his Facebook page. "I pray that you will commit suicide, you filthy child molesting fag." "Romans 1 clearly says God has rejected homos and they are worthy of death.