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Why the Church Should Be LGBTQ+ Affirming With Tom and Alexa Oord

A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar

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The Importance of Affirming Queer Expression

Alexa: I wanted to really avoid something called homonormativity which means you're expected for a man to marry a woman have kids or sort of the traditional hallmark role of what a life is like. Homonormativity is similar in that it looks exactly the same except they're gay so basically the sort of argument from gay people can be married and have kids and have the white picket fence and be just like you and me they just happen to have sex with men, she says. "I really wanted to leave room for weird joy and queer expression in all of its many forms," Alexa adds.

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