Non-Normative Gender and Sexual Identities in Schools: - Schools Out

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T: …yeah but like all Catholic, like all Catholic views are saying like that homosexuality
is wrong, which is a load of rubbish cos it suggests in the bible that Jacob was gay
anyway, with Simon…
V: {did you know though, did you know its also as bad, well it’s bad being gay as eating
pig [//] eating fish which have fins and wearing garments of clothes which have more
than one type of material so like half polyester half cotton, its as bad as being gay in the
eyes of God…
T: {Yeah but um…}
H: {Yeah I mean its like exclusive things, like some people pick out parts that there…
V: {If you’re gonna quote anything, quote every single thing in Leviticus please [//] and
then I’ll be happy.
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U: Religion is like a bit stupid anyway!
W: Um, like I’m a Catholic…
AM: {right}
W: …and um like I just get like, well I go to a Catholic school so I’ve not come out
obviously and then at like any youth group I go to or sumin’ like that I get the mick taken
out of me or sort of cos they’re like oh you believe in God and God says that it’s wrong
to be gay and then like, half the [//] I always have like an argument with like my RE
teacher or any preacher in the street of Bolton, because he said that I like, he said to my
mate Drew, if I put um a murderer, um like a thief and a homosexual all in the same line
in front of a just judge they’d all be condemned to hell and so half the preachers in
Manchester and Bolton have my phone number and send me texts every two days saying
like I’m the pasture who says it’s wrong to be gay, even though I’ve read the Bible seven
times and it doesn’t say that…
V: {it says it in Leviticus, it says, God condemns two man to sleep with other man [//]
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T: {It it actually says, no, no Man shall not lay lay next to another man as you would with
a woman…or cos you’d be condemned…
V: {yeah…same thing…}
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