People often tends to conflate their religious experience with a person's relationship or experience with God, which is also are also very different things. We have to be so careful that we don't say my relationship is this and so that means your relationship should be this right I would never say to someone. My marriage is so fulfilling so why isn't your marriage so fulfilling it should be better. And for other people it's not it's it's healthier for them to leave and to get out of that relationship. It's important to not see someone who leaves the church or someone who stays in the church as being closer to or farther from God.
Discover new insights and perspectives around the relationship between the LGBTQ+ community, the Church, and viewing pornography. We’re discussing how religion impacted TJ’s experience of processing his sexual orientation, why pornography use doesn’t influence your sexual orientation, and the importance of dismantling the internalized homophobia that makes acknowledging and exploring one’s sexuality so difficult.
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