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Author @StMartinsPress • Activist • Columnist • Pastor • PhD Student in NT @DrewTheological • He/Him • 🏳️‍🌈

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Brandan J. Robertson
1 year
I'm so thrilled to share that yesterday I signed a two book deal with @StMartinsPress ! So grateful to my incredible agent @godgrrl and my new editor Joel for believing in me and in these projects! I've got a lot of work ahead, but for now, it's time to celebrate!🥳
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Bud Light put a trans person on *one* beer can, and conservatives are losing their minds. Yet for at least the last year, Bud Light has had rainbow beer cans for Pride, and it wasn’t a problem. The inconsistency in their rage shows how performative this all is and the sad
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@Timcast For what???? What ❄️’s y’all are.
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@LiveAction That’s… not a person.
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@elonmusk It’s remarkable how irresponsible you are. For someone with your intelligence, the fact that you’re contributing to polarization and spreading misinformation leaves room for no other explanation other than that you’re truly malevolent.
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Just finished a paper doing a review of the Christian teachings on premarital sex and masturbation from the first century to modern era. The conclusion: there is *no such thing* as a consistent Christian sexual ethic. It does not now, nor has it ever existed. Pass it on.
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@EricTrump Stopped by Trump Tower to pray for your dad tonight, Eric. May justice prevail, and he be held accountable for every crime he committed. 🙏🇺🇸
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@BasedMikeLee What an idiotic take this is. Even the LDS Church responded to BOM Musical with good humor. Conservatives used to say they got comedy and weren’t fragile… I think you’ve proven that is not true in the least. 😂
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@itazurakko999 This take is a disgrace to the queer community. You should be ashamed.
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If you didn't know...I am gay. And coming out was one of the most terrifying and rewarding experiences of my entire life.
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@MostlyPeacefull @elonmusk Tell this to every “private” Christian college that gets government funding
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Greg Abbot should be impeached- this is shameful and recklessly endangered innocent lives.
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It's Christmas Eve and about 50 migrants were dropped off in front of Kamala Harris' residence with the temperature in the teens. Another stunt by Greg Abbott.
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To those who are *certain* that gay sex is a sin, can you illustrate what the moral wrong is? What is the harm being done? Who does a consensual relationship between two adults of the same gender harm? A sin should cause moral harm- what moral harm does queer love cause?
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Great way to end Pride Month- meeting @VP as she visits NYC for an LGBTQ+ event. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Just some reminders as we kick of #Pride month…
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You know the one thing Jesus never said to his disciples? “Defend me! Defend my doctrine! Defend my truth!” He was not very worried about different beliefs, it seems, but rather about how well people loved, served, and cared. “Put away your sword”….
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Congrats to @treypearson and his husband Jonathan on their beautiful wedding today! 💙🏳️‍🌈
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Did you know that the Bible literally says nothing about LGBTQ+ people? 🏳️‍🌈 A thread. 🧵
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The second amendment isn’t sacred. It’s literally an *amendment*… and it’s time for it to be amended again.
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If you want to ban AR-15s, you are an enemy of the Second Amendment. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
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Universalists are the only ones with a high view of God. If your God is not powerful enough to redeem all of creation, then what you worship isn’t God. If your God is not loving enough to redeem all of creation, then what you worship isn’t God. It’s really that simple. ✨
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When a Christian adds “I’m saying this in love” before saying something, you know nothing that follows is going to be loving. 🥲
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Question for the non-affirming person: How can one follow Jesus, whose central command was to “love your neighbor as yourself” and hold on to a belief that a group of people are abominations who are worthy of death? These two beliefs are wholly inconsistent.
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Lighting is bad. But the message is good. 🏳️‍🌈
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@LECTR0ZITY @StinkyBoodrow @Timcast I’m actually a legacy verified account so another L for you.
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@Brsutton23 It’s not a sin.
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I’ve had to submit multiple police reports and FBI reports in the past two weeks… the increasing level of threats and harassment on social media and in my email is truly stunning- almost always from “Christians”. Christian Nationalism is not mere ideology- it fuels actual hate.
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@jordanbpeterson Ah, yes. You, Jordan, are the expert on Christianity and Pope Francis is just a sophomoric novice at teaching the faith. That seems right.
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Spent the evening listening to @marwilliamson cast a vision of hope for the future of our nation. A beautiful Friday. 💙
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@Bible_N_Bourbon @POTUS Actually, the abomination of Sodom and Gomorrah was there poor treatment of foreigners… which is precisely the sort of policy you support as demonstrated by your lamenting of President Bidens very Biblical stance on immigration.
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There’s a lot I disagree with Tim Keller on. But the fact that early on in my faith, he showed that one could be evangelical and thoughtful, intellectual, and kind helped me tremendously on my journey of faith. May God be with Tim Keller in his final moments of life.
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Timothy Keller (1950-2023)
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Health Update: Today, Dad is being discharged from the hospital to receive hospice care at home. Over the past few days, he has asked us to pray with him often. He expressed many times through prayer his desire to go home to be with Jesus. His family is very sad because we... 1/3
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Romans 1 says *nothing* about consensual same sex relationships. Anyone who interprets those verses that way is either ignorant or intentionally twisting the Bible to justify their own homophobia. Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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For the LGBTQ who claim to be religious, we've developed a special Bible reading plan for pride month. Focus specifically on verses 18-32.
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@wild_branch God didn’t write Leviticus.
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Sex is good. Sexuality is good. God created it and called it good. So stop believing that it’s something bad, shameful, and wrong, okay?!
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@MattWallace888 😂😂😂😂
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I hope to share it once I get feedback from my prof!
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@ISeeYourPlan The paper is primarily based on the Bible- I’m a biblical scholar in training after all- and the Bible doesn’t condemn premarital sex 😁
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Christians will literally demonize anything they don’t understand.
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"Aliens" are demons and fallen angels.
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Happy Pride, friends. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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@charliekirk11 Beautiful.
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Honestly flabbergasted at how many folks think adultery refers to premarital sex. Adultery is *extramarital* sex- cheating on your spouse. Dictionaries are free, folks.
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@MaryTracy1101 @LiveAction Oh I did. That’s not a person, it does not deserve human rights.
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My journey over the last decade has been filled with people saying to me, “You can’t be a Christian because __” So…I decided to get a cross tattoo as a reminder that regardless of what other Christians might say, I belong because God has welcomed me & no one can question that.
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All three of us were “straight” then. All three of us are gay now. Bible College things. Let’s see you at 19!
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Let’s see you at 19
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Now we’re just waiting for you to follow him… 🧐
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Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸
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Jesus is the way. The truth. The life.
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The gap between the scholarly study of the Bible and the lay understanding of Scripture continues to astonish and frustrate me. So much of what has been "assumed" "Biblical" has been challenged by great evidence and scholarship for decades...but is rarely accessible to laity.
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Israel of the Bible is *not* the State of Israel that exists today. The thing is- many evangelicals know this- but they will use Biblical language to justify their pursuit of privilege and power without a second thought.
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Sulaiman Ahmed
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SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON EXPLAINS ITS A HOLY WAR FOR HIM "For those of us who are believers, it's a Biblical admonition to stand with Israel"
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Please don’t tell me Christians are known for their love. Ask any queer person and I can almost guarantee they will tell you that they have been on the receiving end of not just "disagreement", but actual bigotry and hate from those who call themselves "Christians".
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Cheers to the weekend. 💙
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If you’re a Christian and you don’t use people’s preferred pronouns, you’re neither honoring God nor loving your neighbor as yourself. There’s no neutrality or nuance here.
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Allie Beth Stuckey
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If you are a Christian using trans pronouns, you are aiding the Enemy in advancing a movement that’s destroying bodies, souls, families, & nations. There’s no neutrality or nuance here. Former queer theorist & feminist activist Rosaria Butterfield with a call to repentance:
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Christmas in New York. 🎄✨
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Religion should never be an excuse to refuse services to others. Religion should draw people in, extend grace and compassion to others, and delight in diversity. Evangelicalism has proven its not a religion- it’s a political party.
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Using “Orthodoxy” as a lens to read Scripture is, by definition, eisegesis. Virtually none of the “official” doctrines of Christianity existed in any universalized form during the writing of Scripture. Thus, to presuppose the authors of the Bible held “orthodox” beliefs is a
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The modern Christian Nationalist movement is a terrorist movement, plain and simple. If they were to realize their vision for America, there would be regular "punishment" of anyone they viewed as "heretics" or "idolaters"... We must oppose the rising tide with all of our might.
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@GretaThunberg Slay, Greta. Slayyyy.
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What a profoundly powerful day at the people house celebrating progress, equality, and love. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Wrapped up nice and cozy and ready for 🎅 ✨
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It’s really okay to admit that the Bible has a ton of ghastly & immoral things that we should reject. In fact, not acknowledging that hurts the witness of Christians. We look like liars when we refuse to be honest about our scripture. Honesty & truth should always be our goal.
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@Nels_MissuJerry @MostlyPeacefull @elonmusk One is not a church. 🤣 Common Elon-Worshipper L.
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@UncleGazpacho1 Being part of a community with trans people is insulting?! You know what that’s called- transphobia.
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As someone education in three UMC Theological Schools, I am celebrating that the UMC has finally responded to the call of the Spirit to fling open its doors to the multitude of queer clergy seeking to step into their rightful place at the table of grace. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💒
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BREAKING: United Methodists, at a major conference, repeal their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy.
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On this #TransDayOfVisibility , an important reminder: God is transgender.
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@SarahBethards Same for you Sarah. Praying you meet the God who casts out all fear.
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Respectfully, Bishop, I've presided over worship services with the Sisters of Pepetual Indulgence- they are *not* anti-Catholic or anti-Christian. That's a disingenuous characterization of them.
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Friends, it’s hard to imagine anything more offensive than some of the behavior of the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” which I think can only be described as an anti-Catholic hate group.
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Enjoying some time in the sun this weekend at #splashhouse . ☀️
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@CS323232 @elonmusk It’s called *learning* not lying. We were given the best information we had at various points throughout the pandemic. Why don’t you go inject some disinfectant to prevent getting sick like Trump said to??? Since *he* was the beacon of truth, knowledge, and accountability.
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Does anyone else always carry a book with them in *hopes* of reading it but then never gets around to actually reading it?
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On the island. 🏝️
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Pride is our time to declare that we are here, we're not afraid, and we will not live in the closets of shame or dishonesty any longer. What could be more holy than that?
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So, you have no understanding of what it means to be Christian. Thanks for sharing.
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I don’t hate LGBT people. But I do hate when LGBT people pretend to be Christian. You can either have Christ or your sin, you cannot have both.
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Writing a theology of masturbation for my forthcoming book today... ...It's coming along nicely. 😋
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Christianity is queer. Jesus has always been queer. Followers of Jesus are called to be queer. Resist the norms. Embrace the path of the uncontainable and indescribable God.
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By Gods grace I passed my German course, which was the biggest hurdle on PhD journey! Please clap. 😅
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80k words 35 chapters 300 pages And my next book is *finished*. 🎉🍾
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Greetings from Coney Island 🌭
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There is nothing more frustrating to me than to see just how many people have made platforms talking *about* queer folks, while at the same time there are so many *brilliant* queer people who have the hardest time gaining a fair hearing at all as they talk about their own
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evangelicals get all the opportunities to talk about lgbtq christians but they still think they’re the ones persecuted
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After all these years of deconstruction and reconstruction, I’ve settled on one statement as my personal creed: “God is love, and perfect love casts out all fear.”
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30 and up Twitter, drop a pic with your age. 30. 💅 (Ignore the damn shadow. 😒)
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Can this week be over yet? 🥹
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@mikecleere I am no JO apologist, and agree with your general critique, but the numbers are not correct. It’s widely reported Joel makes $200k from Lakewood, and all other profits come from his numerous best selling books. Just for the sake of accuracy.
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@huskerphil1520 @elonmusk Lockdowns are and were the most effective way to prevent the spread of COVID. And we had no clue how deadly or dangerous it was, so in order to be responsible and save lives, we locked down the country - like virtually every other nation on earth- and asked folks to wear a mask.
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Whether or not the CO gunman identifies as non-binary is irrelevant. What we know is that he grew up in a non-affirming home, belonged to a non-affirming religion, in a right-wing family, and despite having a violent past was able to gain access to guns to kill queer people.
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The best part of my debate with James White was this… his (rare) admission that his evangelical views of the Bible are *not* the views of most Biblical Scholars.
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@grcastleberry Like why do Christians have to make such ridiculous claims? There is virtually no evidence for the resurrection outside personal experience, which is why *faith* is required to believe it. I believe in the resurrection by faith *alone*. That should be good enough.
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Guns are the problem.
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The Apostles were not infallible. The Early Church was not infallible. The Church Councils were not infallible. The Canon is not infallible. The Creeds are not infallible. Your understanding of faith is not infallible. We’ve always been fallible humans seeking to know truth.
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This is the dangerous rhetoric and extremism of fundamentalist Christianity that leads to tangible harm and hate.
@PastorMark
Pastor Mark Driscoll
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We’re declaring war on the LGBT agenda, the abortion death cult, and the false prophets like Disney that platform them. The battle starts today. Join us online for the most controversial sermon series I’ve ever preached.
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Despite their best attempts- evangelcials, and traditionalists do not own Christianity. There has *always been* multiple streams of Christianity since the dawning of the Jesus movement. You don’t have to like that progressive Christians exist, but you can’t deny we exist. ☺️
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Frociaggine unite! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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We ❤️ New York.
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Elaine has been messaging me for a week… trying to convince me that if I just “tried” women, I wouldn’t be gay. Honey, been there, done that, and I’m gayer than ever. 🙆‍♂️
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Isn’t it funny that neither Jesus nor his disciples sought to overturn the Roman government? The message of Christian Nationalism is a threat to our pluralistic democracy. Democracy and Christian nationalism cannot coexist. All Christians of goodwill must fight like hell to
@NickLaparra
Nick Laparra
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“We want god to come and overtake the government. We want Christians to be the only ones writing the laws.” — @SeanFeucht Can you imagine the “god loves you unless you don’t love him back and then he hates you and you’re going to hell” people writing all the laws? Horseshit.
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Jason Aldean is a blatant white supremacist, ready to “get back to” the days of lynching and violence towards people of color and anyone else that doesn’t align with his values. His music doesn’t belong on a single radio station or streaming platform. It’s vile.
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Jason Aldean
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When u grow up in a small town, it’s that unspoken rule of “we all have each other’s backs and we look out for each other.” It feels like somewhere along the way, that sense of community and respect has gotten lost. Deep down we are all ready to get back to that. I hope my new
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@RadReputationXX @houseofillium Jesus this is insane. I knew Phil years ago and this was not how I perceived him. What happeneddd
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@HarvardGSAS Shame on Harvard.
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This twisted logic is what fuels Christian homophobia…
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Homosexuality, in its best form, is sin. Heterosexuality, in its best form, is sinless.
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Brandan J. Robertson
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So excited to be invited to the White House tomorrow to celebrate the signing of the Respect for Marriage Act- an important step in the fight for the dignity and equality of LGBTQ+ folx.
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@JoeBiden
Joe Biden
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The Respect for Marriage Act will safeguard the rights and protections to which LGBTQ+ and interracial couples and their children are entitled. It will also ensure that LGBTQ+ youth will grow up knowing that they can lead full, happy lives and build families of their own.
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Being queer is truly glorious. I’m actually sad that so many straight folks never experience queer joy. ✨
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