Y’all, Midland, Michigan.

It turns out that this guy:

Is also this guy:

Yep, Rev. Makela preached a strong anti-gay message, comparing it to alcoholism, and then turns up on a gay meet-up website.

But you know whose fault all this is, right?  The other minister of the church tells the congregants not to read anything about this because “sin is never pretty.”  He writes to the membership —

“To make matters worse,” he continues, “the details of sin that have been kept confidential are being posted online by those who seek to do harm to the Makela family and to St. John’s. This is taking an already difficult situation and making it even more painful…

Dude, but lambasting gays and transgendered people is not harmful to them and their families?

You can serve holy crap on a bed of bibles but it’s still holy crap.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

UPDATE:  It appears that prior to be jerked out of the closet, Makela had encourage gay teens to commit suicide.

Makela told then 17-year-old Tyler Kish — who was suffering from depression at the time — that if he insisted on embracing a homosexual lifestyle, he might as well commit the mortal sin of suicide because he was already ticketed for hell.

“If he’s going to hell for being gay then he might as well commit suicide,” Kish said Makela advised her son. He also, she alleged, went on social media to berate her for remaining supportive of her son after he came out to her.

Yes, Pastor, let’s do talk about sin and how it’s “not pretty.”