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    > And God he says, lives in heaven with Santa Claus and 
    > their dog Marianne, implying that the Supreme Being 
    > is not only imaginary, but also gay.

That is like saying Ernie and Bert are gay. I'd appreciate if the author tried a little harder at interpreting childrens television from a childs perspective.

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> That is like saying Ernie and Bert are gay.

It turns out that they are not gay, but not because it's inconceivable to children. They just aren't gay. (http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Are_Ernie_and_Bert_gay%3F)

I think it is just there for the parents, so they won't fall asleep

Or Felix Unger and Jack Klugman in The Odd Couple.

If we are all made in his image, a bit of him must have been gay, trans, fluid, etc. etc.

Or is this not how it works?

> If we are all made in his image, a bit of him must have been gay, trans, fluid, etc. etc.

Or gender, like nationality and status under human laws, is an element of the material condition of humanity irrelevant to the manner in which humans participate in the image of God; consider, e.g., Gal 3:28: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (text from the NAB, but the sense isn't shifted in any other version that I am aware of.)

> If we are all made in his image, a bit of him must have been gay, trans, fluid, etc. etc.

> Or is this not how it works?

I think that the orthodox position would be that man was meant to be in God's image & likeness, but the Fall has warped the world and imperfections have crept in. Kinda like if I took a photograph of you, and then some random person came by and drew on a moustache.

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