Editing Coming out (section)

==== Pastors ====
In October 2010, megachurch pastor Bishop [[Jim Swilley]] came out to his congregation. The YouTube video of the service went [[Viral video|viral]]. Interviews with ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' magazine,<ref name="people.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20446976,00.html |title=Bishop Jim Swilley: A Minister Comes Out |access-date=16 March 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318114102/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20446976,00.html |archive-date=18 March 2016}}</ref> [[Joy Behar]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyU5wL9z4PA |title=Joy Behar Talks To Gay Bishop Jim Swilley & His Ex-Wife Debye Swilley |website=[[YouTube]] |date=10 November 2010 |access-date=16 March 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160717043309/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyU5wL9z4PA |archive-date=17 July 2016}}</ref> [[Don Lemon]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu0PONfKsEw |title=Don Lemon Talks To Gay Bishop Jim Swilley |publisher=CNN |access-date=16 March 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150221161752/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu0PONfKsEw |archive-date=21 February 2015}}</ref> [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/megachurch-pastor-reveals-gay/story?id=12030163 |title=MegaChurch Pastor Declares He's Gay |work=ABC News |access-date=16 March 2016}}</ref> and [[NPR]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2010/11/14/131312723/out-of-the-closet-in-the-pulpit-of-a-megachurch |title=Out Of The Closet&nbsp;... In The Pulpit Of A Megachurch |newspaper=NPR.org |publisher=NPR All Things Considered |access-date=16 March 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324000807/http://www.npr.org/2010/11/14/131312723/out-of-the-closet-in-the-pulpit-of-a-megachurch |archive-date=24 March 2016}}</ref> focused on  bullycides<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.queerty.com/georgia-megachurch-pastor-jim-swilley-im-gay-and-im-telling-you-because-of-those-bullycides-20101029 |title=Georgia Megachurch Pastor Jim Swilley: I'm Gay, And I'm Telling You Because Of Those Bullycides |magazine=Queerty |access-date=16 March 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322221330/http://www.queerty.com/georgia-megachurch-pastor-jim-swilley-im-gay-and-im-telling-you-because-of-those-bullycides-20101029 |archive-date=22 March 2016 |date=29 October 2010}}</ref> which Bishop Swilley said had prompted him to "come out". One year later, he confirmed the costs but also the freedom he has experienced. "To be able to have freedom is something that I wouldn't trade anything for."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thegavoice.com/gay-ga-mega-church-pastor-reflects-on-year-of-coming-out/ |title=Gay Ga. mega-church pastor reflects on year of coming out |publisher=The GAVoice |access-date=16 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323095255/http://thegavoice.com/gay-ga-mega-church-pastor-reflects-on-year-of-coming-out/ |archive-date=23 March 2016 |date=11 November 2011}}</ref> "Being married as yourself, preaching as yourself and living your life as yourself is infinitely better than doing those things as someone else."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thegavoice.com/the-swilleys-five-years-later/ |title=Five years later: The Swilleys on family, coming out and inclusive LGBT ministries |publisher=The GAVoice |access-date=16 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325183000/http://thegavoice.com/the-swilleys-five-years-later/ |archive-date=25 March 2016 |date=22 January 2016}}</ref>

Bishop Swilley's son, [[Jared Swilley]], bass player and front man of [[Black Lips]], said, "It was definitely shocking, but I was actually glad when he told me. I feel closer to him now".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://creativeloafing.com/content-155190-black-lips-swilley-discusses-father-s-recent-coming |title=Black Lips' Swilley discusses father's recent coming out |publisher=Creative Loafing Atlanta |access-date=16 March 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20101107000000/http://clatl.com/cribnotes/archives/2010/11/08/black-lips-swilley-discusses-fathers-recent-coming-out |archive-date=7 November 2010}}</ref> Bishop Swilley's second son, Judah Swilley, a cast member on the [[Oxygen (TV channel)|Oxygen]] show ''Preachers of Atlanta'', is confronting homophobia in the church.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oxygen.com/preachers-of-atlanta/episode-guide |title=Preachers of Atlanta Episode Guide |access-date=16 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310214816/http://www.oxygen.com/preachers-of-atlanta/episode-guide |archive-date=10 March 2016 |date=19 November 2015}}</ref>