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LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, AND QUEER JTICE
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And afterward, Blael hid their office, wonrg what nsequenc were on their ’s when a high-schooler approached, tellg Blael they had a gay iend at school. “The rift is over adherence to the Book of Disciple, ” he told IPR book plaly forbids “self-avowed practicg homosexuals” om beg clergy.
In 2016, Blael was among more than 100 Uned Methodists who signed a letter about beg LGBTQ and his story, Paxton wrote that the Iowa Conference had “moved away om tradnal church orthodoxy” spe the Book of Disciple’s clear msag on “homosexual marriage and the ordatn of practicg homosexuals. The first plat was about Blael beg a “self-avowed, practicg homosexual, ” but was dismissed by an outgog bishop. Official Catholic teachg nsirs any sexual act outsi of marriage between a man and a woman of the gatherg, known as a synod, there was an unprecented nvassg of Catholics worldwi, which found that the fahful want to see ncrete steps to promote women to cisn-makg posts as well as a “radil cln” of the LGBTQ+ muny the the pope, an terview wh The Associated Prs January, cried as “unjt” laws that crimalize homosexualy and clared that “beg homosexual is not a crime, ’’ Mart, who is a Ju like Francis, asked him for clarifitn, given the church’s teachg on the subject.
I was simply lookg to be actively volved and bee a member of the church… Bee I was gay, that was sufficient for [them] to turn around and say no. But all of a sudn, ‘Oh, but now you say you’re gay, you n’t do that any more’. Recent rearch strongly suggts that LGBT people who ntue to intify as Christian experience heightened “homonegativy” – negative and shame-filled feelgs about their sexualy – pared to non-relig, or even formerly Christian, LGBT people.