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Gary Hall, chief ecclesiastical leader and executive officer of the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., said in a sermon on Sunday that \u201chomophobia\u201d and \u201cheterosexism\u201d are sins. \u201cIn its wisdom, the church came to its senses and labeled both racism and sexism as sinful,\u201d Hall said. \u201cAnd now we find ourselves at the last barrier\u2014call that barrier homophobia, call it heterosexism. \u201cWe must now have the courage to take the final step and call homophobia and heterosexism what they are,\u201d Hall said. \u201cThey are sin. \u201cHomophobia is a sin,\u201d Hall said. \u201cHeterosexism is a sin.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/article\/penny-starr\/national-cathedral-leader-homophobia-sin-same-sex-marriages-will-be#sthash.44C2oWTT.dpuf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Penny Starr CNS News&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614,113,46,45],"tags":[2919,2932,173,294,1995,1996,1997],"class_list":["post-13395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-in-crisis","category-homosexuality","category-politics","category-signs-of-the-times","tag-signs-of-the-times","tag-homosexuality","tag-freedom","tag-apostasy","tag-national-cathedral","tag-homophobia","tag-sex","wpcat-614-id","wpcat-113-id","wpcat-46-id","wpcat-45-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>National Cathedral Leader: \u2018Homophobia\u2019 a Sin; 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