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"Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint."
"It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs... The…"
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