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“The heterosexual foundation of Liberation Theology can claim for toleration of the abnormal in its communities, but it us heterosexuality as a compulsory system in itself which is abnormal, not Queer, indecent people. Indecent people challenge precisely the unnaturality and abnormalities of the present sexual ideology, in all the consequences of this sexual and political theology.”

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