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We all appreciate the New Year because it a clear slate. It is a fresh opportunity to make changes in our life? But did you know that Jesus Christ gives you a fresh slate every single day?

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What does it mean to love both Jesus and the same sex? Throughout the past decade, homosexuality has become increasingly accepted in many Western circles, yet the tension between being religious and being gay remains.

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“I decided that I had no religion my last year of middle school. I despised religion when I learned about wars fought in its name.”

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I hope that one day “religious freedom” isn’t used as an excuse to deny basic human rights to the LGBT community.

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So if animals have souls, doesn’t that mean that we shouldn’t eat them? How are you going to justify eating something with a soul?

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Because I’m a person who believes in doing things that make sense.

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On the better days, we all simply have to wait for the “all clear” and on the worst of days, we all have to live through the tragedy one thought at a time. In the darkest of trials we find that friends, relatives and even religious rituals rap themselves around us for the simple purpose of giving us something else to think about or at the very least a different way of thinking about what was previously unthinkable.

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Most parents don’t imagine their children growing up to become gay atheist interfaith activists.

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By the time I was old enough to realize that it was odd for two grown men to have been “roommates” for so long, when I asked my mother and she laughed and said, “Oh, honey, they’re gay; I thought you knew,” it made sense to me.

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In spite of my young atheism and my naïve devotion to scientific optimism, profoundly religious works of literature shaped my spirit. The first novels I read, in the summer between second and third grade, were The Chronicles of Narnia.