Gospel Singer, DeJuaii Pace, Comes Out Of The Closet

A new show on the Oprah Winfrey Network debuted this week, following the progress of eight individuals who want to break their eating disorders.

One of the contestants on “Addicted to Food” is a gospel singer who is getting to the bottom of why she’s been overeating and says it’s related to her attraction to women.

Dejuaii Pace, 45, recently talked to The Root, an online publication, about being a Christian, a virgin, and not being able to come out for fear of the repercussions of her Christian community.

‘True virgin’

She is a member of the Anointed Pace Sisters and her father is the pastor of a Pentecostal church. She’s a member of his church and has always felt that her attraction was forbidden. Pace told The Root that she has not been in a physically intimate relationship with a man or a woman, but knows she’s attracted to women.

“No, I have not. I am a real-deal, true virgin. Because my mother and my dad had brought us up [to believe] that the greatest gift that I could give to my husband, my soul mate, is to give to them myself that has not been tainted with anybody else or anything else. And I value that highly. And by the grace of God, [the Lord] has helped me and kept me,” she said.

Waiting for soul mate

She mentions in her interview that the Christian community will have to deal with gays differently, by giving a new message:

“I want my soul mate. However God brings that about is fine with me. I know that God loves me, and he has created me, and this thing is here. I feel that it is part of my destiny to find out what is really going on. Because I cannot say it’s against God, and I cannot say God is for it. All I’m saying now is that we cannot tell people what we’ve been telling them. I have friends who’ve stopped going to church because of that.”

Source: The Florida Courier