That would be “laity.” English please.
the people of a religious faith as distinguished from its clergy; the mass of the people as distinguished from those of a particular profession or those specially skilled… See the full definition
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We're stupid ***** and we don't know what we're doing with our lives when we go to church and listen to the sermons of such learned clergy.
Are gays marrying in your sect? Women priests?
It it is entirely possible that when “gays” marry, they do give up the “gay lifestyle” a.k.a. the “singles lifestyle.” Whether a promiscuous man or woman will remain faithful to one and only one spouse is the question. There are too many bachelorette parties and last nights out with the guys in those churchs. Women priests? There are plenty of nuns and female Sunday school teachers, and they have plenty of power. Screaming rape and calling the cops to press charges if a guy even looks cross-eyed at them.
I don't believe in sexual orientation. There's an oriental nightclub in Chinatown San Francisco, California, or something like that, and people aren't telling the truth when they get out of bed in the morning. There's a pimp banging on some other dude, “You can't have that girl you want, you're ******* gay.”
“Gender identity” as per federal law is meaningless as well; under federal law it is nothing but another codeword for marital status. Marriage in a vice lord church.