James Finn
Apr 13, 2022

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"More specifically, cishet folks need to unpack “straightness” and their gender identities & expressions. They need to interrogate the dominant “whiteness” of church culture, structures, etc. We have to face toxic masculinity, patriarchy, and militarism in our cis male dominated leadership."

Right, I guess I just don't know what that means, and I wish I did. I don't have a sense of what "unpacking straightness" would mean in a church. (Well, I guess in any similar social institution.) Or what "interrogating whiteness" would mean. The phrases don't carry a lot of meaning for me. So I'm left with more questions than answers.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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