Former Gay and Transgender Christian Couple Renew Wedding Vows after ‘True Transformation’ from Church
- Milton Quintanilla Crosswalk Headlines Contributor
- Published Jun 26, 2024
A couple who previously identified as homosexual and transgender have left their former lifestyles after finding Jesus Christ and recently renewed their wedding vows. On May 30, 2020, Nic and Lex Renick got married as husband and husband but now identify as a heterosexual couple — husband and wife, Faithwire reports.
Nowadays, however, Lex restored her female identity and returned to the name she was given at birth, while Nic abandoned his homosexual identity. In a recent interview with Michael Knowles of The Daily Wire, they detail their journey.
Knowles, a professing Catholic, described the couple’s testimony as “one of the wildest stories I’ve ever heard.”
“I think it just goes to show that anyone can transform or turn into anything that they want,” Nic told Knowles. “But nobody talks about transforming back to the original design that you’re supposed to be.”
“The world can tell you so much about who you’re ‘supposed to be’ based off of your interests or your personality type, and try to fit you into all of these crazy, outlandish boxes that might … make you feel included for a time,” he continued.
Meanwhile, Lex shared about how she believed the “lie” of the LGBT community.
“The whole world in the queer community was saying, ‘Well, you know if God made you, then God made you this way,’” she recalled hearing. “[But] that argument doesn’t work with the trans community. Because, if we say, ‘God made me this way,’ then that means that I should have been a woman.”
Lex also acknowledged that she grew up in an abusive household, one that claimed to be “Christian,” with an alcoholic mother who told Lex, “If I would have known that you were going to be my child, I would have aborted you.” Her mother made this comment after learning Lex struggled with her sexuality and gender identity.
Whenever she sought comfort and safety in her family or a church, Lex said they would “reject me.” She eventually found the belonging she was looking for in the LGBT movement.
“I ran to this loving community, and that was the queer community, because they accepted me for me, not that I needed edifying or acceptance from the church,” she recalled. “I just needed a loving body of believers or family to wrap their arms around me and say, ‘Hey, we’re going to walk with you through this journey.’ But all I faced was rejection.”
Meanwhile, Nix began identifying as homosexual as a teenager, but his family accepted him, unlike Lex.
His family, he said, “never tried to change me,” even though they held to the belief of God’s design for male and female.
“They didn’t condone or agree with what I was doing, and that is the exact Christian model of how I feel we should address the community,” he said. “We can’t shun or reject nor condone at the same time.”
At first, as a transgender male — meaning biologically female — and a homosexual male, the couple wanted to have children despite Lex identifying as a man.
Following their transformation, they have let go of their former identities and accepted their biological realities as males and females.
They have one child and recently announced they are pregnant with their second baby.
They also found a church in Las Vegas that, even though the leaders did not condone their LGBT lifestyles, they didn’t reject them either. That’s when they experienced true transformation.
“They chose to love us,” Lex said of the church they attended. “And that ministered to our hearts so much because we got to hang out with more believers and allow God to do the work on our hearts and then have friends in our lives to encourage us in the leading of the Lord rather than separating and kind of gatekeeping Jesus by taking people out of the church.”
In March, the couple renewed their wedding vows for the first time as husband and wife.
“I’m so in AWE of the Goodness of God,” Lex wrote in an Instagram post. “He is so so good! So many tears hearing my husband say, ‘I do,’ after Pastor Ivan said, ‘Do you take her to be your bride.’ Words I never thought would be so sweet to hear deep within my soul. What an honor it is to be Nic’s bride. What an honor it is to serve God together and build His Kingdom.”
WATCH: "I Was Gay, She Was Trans" I Michael & The Transformed Couple
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