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Alabama Justice Who Ruled That Embryos Are ‘Children’ Appeared On QAnon Conspiracist's Show
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That's a terrifying statistic. I'm gay and I only barely made it out of my Christian family. I knew it was bad out there, but I hoped it was getting better....
These Christians have got to be dealt with. Talk about an enemy at the gates...
Well I'm glad you made it out of your family situation, I know so many gay people in Utah who have been through that. And it's sad to see families "disown" their own children, which strikes me as the most un-christian thing anyone could ever do.
Sadly Utah's fearful right-wing legislators are doing everything they can to march us back into the dark ages. This current legislative session alone, they passed a bill forbidding trans people to use public bathrooms (And I mean, there's like possibly two trans people in the state!) and requiring all schools to remove any books about sexuality from schools.
And the new bill being signed is to demand that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public schools. And here I had the bizarre idea that church and state were supposed to be separate......how naive of me.
Thank you. I was far more fortunate than a lot of my LGBTQ brothers and sisters. My dad tried to talk to me about it once when I was about 12, but he decided to take me on a fishing trip with one of his friends. I felt cornered, so I just avoided their questions. They were both vocally anti-gay, so it was a moot point regardless.
I feel you on the separation of church and state, though. I live in Tennessee and apart from there being giant crosses that get used as landmarks, but the whole state may as well just be a huge billboard for the Christians. That's not even mentioning the fact that Christians graffiti under bridges and post signs there that say "Repent: The Lord is coming" and other little Jesus catchphrases. Last I checked, spray painting government property was a crime and so is littering (I consider the signs the same as dumping trash).
Nothing gets done about it because, at this point, Christianity is state sponsored terrorism. I don't know what else to call it.
I hate to say it but your dad is an old school uneducated bigot. And has no right to talk to you about any of this. You cannot expect someone without morality to love you as you deserve to be loved.
Sorry to be so blunt, but it must be stated out in the open. Nothing makes me angrier than parents thinking they have some god-given right to control their kids' sexuality. Nothing is further from the truth.
I live in Utah not by choice, but circumstance. And frankly, I feel bad for you having to live in Tennessee, another state I consider an open sewer of immoral bigotry.
If it is true that "the Lord is coming," all these so-called Christian haters should be the ones repenting. They are the ones who will burn in hell. Not us, my friend; I guarantee you that. It was never us who were in the wrong.
Jesus if he were ever real would hate these so called christian filth mongers and their homophobia. And he would never allow them any access to salvation; they've already committed the most unforgivable sin of not loving their fellow man, the worst possible sin.
You're not wrong. The ordeal was basically him saying to his friend "You know (friend's name), if I had a son that was 'queer' I don't think I'd mind." His friend tried to basically just agree with him, but it was awkward, mostly because the conversation was apropos of nothing; just brought up out of nowhere.
To this day, I struggle with hearing the word 'queer' as something other than a slur and I feel bad even saying it just because of the negative connotation in which my dad used it. I know that it isn't and that people who identify as such use the word proudly, as well they should, but I've had to hear it as a word that meant something bad my whole life. I'm working on changing that way of thinking, but it's been tough.
To your other point, if Jesus were real, he wouldn't take a single Christian (Save for maybe Dolly Parton) to "heaven."
My boss is a hard core "Christian" that has hot-take opinions on things like immigration. I asked him if "Jesus" would approve of his opinion on that and his exact words were "I don't care what Jesus said." None of them actually believe a word of what they hear at church. They just recite what they hear, a la "bros" that quote ESPN. It's all one big act that they're all in on, but no one wants to break the fourth wall, so to speak.