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Inventing Sin: Religion and Homosexuality

Posted on Jan 24, 2006

By Larry Gross

No matter their own scandals, religious institutions through history have a consistent scapegoat: homosexuals. Larry Gross digs into why churches condemn gays to damnation.

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