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Week 23:The Mindful Empath's AlmanacI will start recording these voiceovers so they hit the podcast feed, I hope you enjoy them!! If you become a paid subscriber you will begin to receive longer audio meditations (8 per year). The next one is coming up soon!!mindfulempath.substack.com/subscribeTranscript:“I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet.”~ Dolly PartonReflection:I used to think that being gay was wrong.I used to think that there was only ONE way to be human, to love, and to have a family.I used to think that gayness was a sin, because that’s what I was told by the people that interpreted the Bible for me.I don’t think these things anymore, and it’s not because “society” or “culture” has changed my values.The truth of the matter is that the value of love and equality in the eyes of the divine is one that most Christians claim.I think the one thing that really changed my opinion on this (as well as my views on race) was the realization that ASSIMILATION into the d