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10 Tactics of Pulpit Bullies Who Shame, Silence and Slander Queer Folks

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As Catholic author Karen Armstrong put it, “If your understanding of the Divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology.

But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, or self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God’s name, it was bad theology.” Of 4.2 million homeless youth in America, 40 percent identify as LGBTQ+.

Half report anti-LGBTQ+ religious conspiracies and rhetoric motivating their homelessness. Knowing this, some pastors continue advancing hateful rhetoric, as if God deems LGBTQ+ people to be so inherently despicable, filthy and sinful, harming them doesn’t hold the same weight as harming non-LGBTQ+ people.

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