If the Government gets its conversion therapy ban wrong, mainstream Christianity would become illegal
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Matthew Roberts2022-02-15T10:17:00
The sexual ethic of abstinence outside of marriage, is no less essential to mainstream, orthodox Christianity than Kosher food is to Judaism, argues Matthew Roberts.
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