Dylan Settle: Sinful Lifestyle

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A Young gay man decide to speak publicly about his Arkansas church who decide to kick him out because of his so called “sinful lifestyle”. Dylan Settle posted a letter he received from Woods Chapel General Baptist church on Oct 11 which they was informing him that they had voted to remove his name from the church membership role. Their reasoning was that the young man made it known that he supports the choice to embrace the homosexual lifestyle. Mr. Settle then shared the letter via Facebook from his church home. Mr. Settle told KARK4-TV “I was in so much shock, I couldn’t read the rest of it... I don’t feel comfortable sitting at pew or sitting beside my parents when all I’m going to see is people pointing their fingers at me because of the

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