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Children of God

American  

noun

  1. a highly disciplined, fundamentalist Christian sect, active especially in the early 1970s, whose mostly young converts live in communes.


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"From organizing boycotts and sit-ins, to registering millions of voters, to advocating for freedom and democracy around the world, he was relentless in his belief that we are all children of God, deserving of dignity and respect."

From BBC

"They are children of God... nobody should be thrown out or made miserable over it", he said.

From BBC

In 1971, Fleetwood Mac guitarist Jeremy Spencer abandoned the group midtour to join a fringe Christian sect called The Children of God and played a free concert at Washington Hall — where some of the CoG were living.

From Seattle Times

Francis has made reaching out to LGBTQ+ people a hallmark of his papacy, ministering to trans Catholics and insisting that the Catholic Church must welcome all children of God.

From Seattle Times

“Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. They are children of God,” the Pope said at the time during an interview for a documentary.

From Salon