![]() ![]() Sergius and Bacchus, Christ/Holy Wisdom, Sts. Passionate Holiness tries to remedy this situation by explaining why acquaintance with the stories of Sts. Unfortunately, it has been particularly difficult for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered Christians to remain connected with and identified with their own faith traditions because some of these traditions not only treat them as people of secondary status but teach Christian history as though no people of same-gender attraction or opposite-gender identity had any noteworthy place in it and had made no significant contributions at all to Christian tradition. He recently described homophobic discrimination "as totally unacceptable and unjust as Apartheid ever was". Archbishop Desmond Tutu of Cape Town once said with regard to South Africa's Apartheid policy, "One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them that they don't have a history, that they have no roots". ![]()
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