I think it doesn__ matter if you or I or anybody else thinks homosexuality is a sin. It doesn__ matter if you or I think anything is a sin. It doesn__ matter if homosexuality is a sin or not. In fact, it doesn__ matter if anything anybody else does is a sin or not.Because sin is a very personal thing! It always has been and it always will be!And it has nothing to do with love.
Don't you wanna_be a_great baseball player?_ He sighed back into the wall. __ want to be a great man, Fielding._ And so we stand, proved of our existence by those who see us. And how did I see Grand, how_did_any of us, but as the one who would be great at this and that, as long as it was baseball and girls. He always had to be what we wanted him to be first._He existed only by proxy_to our dreams of_him.
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Don't you wanna_be a_great baseball player?_ He sighed back into the wall. __ want to be a great man, Fielding._ And so we stand, proved of our existence by those who see us. And how did I see Grand, how_did_any of us, but as the one who would be great at this and that, as long as it was baseball and girls. He always had to be what we wanted him to be first._He existed only by proxy_to our dreams of_him.
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