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Actually while the first part of that sentence, up to "hoodrat" is true, gay and transgender men have in fact been kicked out of their homes, run out of town, and have been unable to find meaningful employment because of labels applied to being gay and transgender.

The church most certainly has inflicted the "cruel punishment of exclusion and shame dumped on them by society because of the church pushing its perverted ideas of the false morality of purity."

Cisgender straight males may not have been pushed out of their homes, but that doesn't apply to any men challenging cisgender male norms.

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Georgia NeSmith
Georgia NeSmith

Written by Georgia NeSmith

Retired professor, feminist, writer, photographer, activist, grandmother of 5, overall Wise Woman. Phd UIA School of Journalism & Mass Communication, 1994.

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