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2. The race, gender, and sexual orientation of the clergyperson.

I really can't imagine why the race matters. If we're talking about race, though, the strongest Anglicans in the world are Africans.

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I really can't imagine why the race matters.

It doesn't, of course. But the goal is to equate "sexual orientation" with such in-born, immutable, visible traits as gender or race.