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wholeWheatButterfly t1_ixu87jo wrote

I'm an LGBTQ atheist, and I don't necessarily think it's bad to have a faith forward business. However, you must realize that in choosing to do your marketing this way, you are (intentionally or not) creating a safe space for certain people and an unsafe space for certain other people. I don't think it's wrong for a business to have a target market, and in this case your target market is people who have not experienced direct or indirect abuse from the church. I would never visit a business that markets like this after repeatedly being called an abomination and a slut by my churches growing up. If you have a Christian forward business without explicitly denouncing that kind of behavior, you're complicit and very strongly pushing away people like me from your business. That's a choice that is your right to make.

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