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What is it with atheists and GLBT folk?
Profile Although it does not logically follow, I would claim that there is a strong case for the subjectivity of morality if there is such widespread disagreement.
What is it with atheists and GLBT folk?
Profile PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris .
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