Christian rock singer Vicky Beeching, known for her worship songs in the Christian community, came out as a Lesbian and said her goal is to bring "the change" between the church and the LGBT community.

In a breaking article found on independent.co.uk Beeching talked extensively about struggling with homosexuality since a child and growing up as a worship leader.

"I'm gay," she told independent in a recent interview. Her confession being the first time she went public with her sexual orientation.

Beeching grew up in the Christian community; first in the Pentecostal Church then in the evangelical branch of the Church of England, while going to Oxford to study theology. Beeching is now labeled a theologian and reportedly spends lots of time with the Archbishop.

12 years ago the EMI record label, propelled Beeching into the Christian music scene as a successful singer-songwriting career, whose songs are popular in the church world.

Beeching told the publication her feelings towards other girls began at 12-years-old in school. "Realizing that I was attracted to them was a horrible feeling," she said, "I was so embarrassed and ashamed. It became more and more of a struggle because I couldn't tell anyone."

She said she went to a Catholic priest and had several people try and cast the spirit of homosexuality out of her, but her feelings did not go away.

"I felt there was something really wrong with me, that maybe I was so sinful and awful I couldn't be healed," Beeching explained.

"I felt like it was ripping me in half. I knew I couldn't carry on. I was trying to align the loving God I knew and believed in with this horrendous reality of what was going on inside me," and went on to say, "I remember kneeling down and absolutely sobbing into the carpet. I said to God, 'You have to either take my life or take this attraction away because I cannot do both.'"

Beeching explained that worship music was an "outlet" for the internal struggle she faced.

Although the article really blamed the church for Beeching's internal turmoil, the singer said, "I'm not angry with the Church."

Beeching spoke of her struggles when having to perform in churches that are against gay marriage, but maintained that she never spoke out because her recording contract with the Christian music branch of EMI had a "morality clause," in which "any behavior deemed to be immoral" would be a breach of contract.

The 35-year-old said it was not until she was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called linear scleroderma morphea, and was told that she would need extensive chemotherapy. She then decided to speak up. "Thirty-five is half a life," she noted, "I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person."

Beeching confessed, after receiving advice from BBC newsreader Jane Hill, and others, in which they told her to "'be yourself and everything will follow.'"

Beeching's parents have agreed to disagree with the singer and said, "It's a picture of what is possible, even when you don't agree, that love can supersede everything." She wants the Church of England to follow suit.

Beeching stands on the premises that, "What Jesus taught was a radical message of welcome and inclusion and love." She said, "I feel certain God loves me just the way I am, and I have a huge sense of calling to communicate that to young people. When I think of myself at 13, sobbing into that carpet, I just want to help anyone in that situation to not have to go through what I did, to show that instead, you can be yourself - a person of integrity."

"The Church's teaching was the reason that I lived in so much shame and isolation and pain for all those years. But rather than abandon it and say it's broken, I want to be part of the change," she added.

According to independent, Beeching's support for gay love and marriage, that goes against Biblical scripture, has already resulted in people boycotting her music.

Beeching's announcement already has people on the Internet divided on the matter, with some siding with the singer, others maintaining that people are to live by the word of God and not emotions. What are your thoughts on the matter? Leave your comments below.