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Ep247 - Reverends Floyd Thompkins, Dr. Janie Spahr, and Annanda Barclay | LGBTQ & Spirituality

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The Christian Orthodox Definition of Sin Is That Which Separates Us From Our Truest Self

I was born queer, any more than the mahogany on my skin. And so when we talk about sin, sin is a behavior, not a being. It is a choice that one makes to depart from your true self. If we are to limit the sexuality of god to heterosexual, although you have two clearly queer, non heterosexual people in front of you, then we are still narrowing god. Neither of us can be anything but queer, because that is our truest human nature. I mean, we all sinia straitosinai, adultery. O, you know that.

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