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tellmeamiveryfar · 2 years

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This book is exactly what I needed right now

It's been sitting in my embarrassingly large to-be-read pile for a while now. It's eight essays that touch on many different religions but I've only read the three that focus on Christianity so far.

Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: Continuing the Reformation of Protestant Christianity - Marvin M. Ellison

Eradicating the Sin of Heterosexism - Mary E. Hunt

Heterosexism and the Black American Church Community: A Complicated Reality - Kelly Brown Douglas

I don't have much intelligent to say about what I've read but it was all... very much needed.

#heterosexism in contemporary world religions: problem and prospect #I've made a habit the last few years of going to Goodwill and buying interesting books and then just...not reading them #or any books at all lol anyway #my UMC church is having a meeting tomorrow about disaffiliation and it's been stressing me out #I mean I don't think I actually have any reason to worry #my church tends to stay very quiet on politically contentious issues but I'm pretty sure we generally lean towards lgbtq acceptance #so I'm not super worried about us leaving the UMC over the issue of human sexuality #BUT also it's not really an issue that I want to hear non-queer christians debate if you know what I mean #I really don't even know what this meeting is about #I think it's just to establish whether we need to take a vote or not on disaffiliation #I would be shocked if it even came to a vote #but I'm not looking forward to it in any case #anyway what a breath of fresh air this was

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