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A BLACK, GAY MAN IS SUG LIBERTY UNIVERSY FOR DISCRIMATN: “PART OF MYSELF WAS STOLEN”
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Her story is one of many: several stunts terviewed by the Guardian said they stggled wh ternalized homophobia, mental health problems and suici least she was able to avoid “pastoral unselg”, offered by the school, but which stunts assume is, effect, nversn therapy. ”Every week, Pastor Dane Emerick “would start by tryg to gui to beg biblil men, basilly g the Bible to redirect the homosexualy to a more platonic form, while also havg time where we would nfs our urg to one another and how we had ‘stggled’ wh same-sex attractn that week and if we’d ‘overe’ or not.
Photograph: Steve Helber/AP“I me to Liberty as a Libertarian Christian, and I left as an atheist Democratic socialist, ” a 25-year old who scrib himself as a “femme gay”, said.