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"Their blood is on your hands. Five lives taken."
Painted on the Colorado Springs headquarters of homophobic Christian organization "Focus on the Family".
The message is a reference to the mass shooting at Club Q, where five people died Saturday night.
Anyway with anti-sodomy laws back on the discussion table I'm going to repeat that you can personally be squicked out by the consensual sex someone else has, but saying that their consensual sex between willing, active, adult participants should be illegal and is indicative of some sort of moral failing is L I T E R A L L Y a major facet in extreme homophobia and absolutely has gotten people killed.
You don't have to like their business but as long as everyone involved in the encounter is saying yes, it's also really not your business.
This is the precident you are helping further by digging your heels in and saying 'but I think it's gross and makes them bad people'. This is what happened last time that was the reasoning for law, and what is being threatened to happen again.
Just a memory of mine I’m putting here, for the record
I remember when gay marriage was legalized in the US, everyone around me was quiet or upset about it, mostly upset. It made sense, the only people I really knew who weren’t from the baptist church I went to or my conservative religious school were my cousins, and I didn’t get to see their reaction.
My mom, I think, was mostly quiet. She disagreed on principle, but honestly looking back I think she was only doing that so that she wouldn’t get harassed in turn by the people we were around.
I didn’t know what gay marriage was, really, and when people explained it I still didn’t understand. It didn’t help that they explained it in possibly the least straightforward way possible, lol. I decided to voice the same opinions as then, because I assumed they knew best and it definitely seemed like they were confident they were right.
That didn’t stick, obviously, but I remember it was a really weird day. Kids who now would only come up to my shoulder, making snide half thought through remarks about “where the country is going,” as if they weren’t just copying their parents. I don’t remember whether the chapel sermon that week covered it, but I wouldn’t be surprised. It was a really weird week, as little of it as I remember
I’m putting this out here for anyone who needs it
Christians will straight up say stuff that boils down to "we must do things that hurt people and make us unhappy and don't make sense to please The Holy One" and someone asks why would a holy one want you to do things that make you unhappy, don't make sense, deny logic and hurt people? Why does the holy one seem to care about shit that doesn't matter?
And they're like no it doesn't do those things actually. Women LOVE submission. Which is why we have to constantly remind them. Gay people aren't really happy when they have rights, they're sinning. It's unnatural, which is why we have to beat it out of them.
They must maintain a Holy Society and fight against the Evil Liberal Atheist but it basically amounts to reinforcing existing power dynamics and being threatened when people break the rules and don't comply.
Apparently my best friend/companion’s class (which is in the cult school I grew up in/left) was having a debate about what should be the guidelines for US citizenship, and all the guys agreed that only straight people should be US citizens. The teacher seemed a bit shook by that but couldn’t really say anything since the school vocally doesn’t support queer people, and she’s part of the administration.
So, not surprising, but I’m posting about it both as a reminder to myself (and possibly others from similar environments) about the casual bigotry that can happen in enclosed environments like that
#lmao this is totally self indulgent storytelling but you should know I went to a private Christian school where#a girl said said all gay people should be burned at the stake lmao#and like. the whole class cheered for her#its Funny looking back but I won’t lie it was shocking to ninth grade baby dyke me#fun fact: the girl who said that didn’t know how steam was made and thought we lived INSIDE the esrth#sooooo#anyways we’re in it together lmao (via cuorduroyghost)
Holy shit- that sounds like something that would’ve happened at this school, honestly 🤝
Apparently my best friend/companion’s class (which is in the cult school I grew up in/left) was having a debate about what should be the guidelines for US citizenship, and all the guys agreed that only straight people should be US citizens. The teacher seemed a bit shook by that but couldn’t really say anything since the school vocally doesn’t support queer people, and she’s part of the administration.
So, not surprising, but I’m posting about it both as a reminder to myself (and possibly others from similar environments) about the casual bigotry that can happen in enclosed environments like that
if you have an android phone and a moment to spare can you please report this app for hateful content?
it's a new lgbt conversion therapy app (as of early march 2022) put out by the malaysian government targeting lgbt muslims in malaysia and encouraging them to 'leave the lgbt lifestyle' and repent. if you search 'hijrah diri' on the google play store it should come up. an app like this is unacceptable and lgbt muslim malaysians deserve better than to be treated this way, even worse that this is our government sponsoring stuff like this.
Sometimes I think about the casual bullying that went on and wonder how many people still feel ashamed about normal, neutral, and honestly not even relevant things they do because of it.
There was this kid in my class whose nickname translated to “slowpoke” because them always fell asleep (dude was exhausted all the time, I can’t blame him)
There was another kid whose name sounded like “Nickels” and people always made fun of them and made jokes about tossing them around and using them as change and stuff
There was this other kid who was always made fun of for having messy hair, when they weren’t doing anything wrong by not having it perfectly neat and tidy in the morning
There was this kid a couple grades down who was targeted because they were Korean, and there really wasn’t an end to the jokes they made about them
There was a kid in my class, who I probably would’ve been great friends with in another timeline, but who was made fun of constantly for not being manly enough, and assumed to be gay
Another kid in my class was made fun of for being so thin (like, making fun of her on the assumption that she must have an eating disorder), and another was made fun of for being chubby
There were just so… so many awful, distasteful jokes, some very obviously wrong, and some that were just small things. I wish I could erase all of that shame for them
This isn’t prompted by anything in particular but Christians stop comparing queerphobia to religious discrimination (specifically for being Christian) challenge
“There can be gays, there can be transgenders, there can be abortions, there can be whatever you want, why should I care?”
Yes please??? 👀
christian parents be like “my child CAN’T be trans or gay!! i would know”. honey, your child perfected lying by the time they were in middle school, have only fed you carefully curated and select information about themselves to give you the illusion of closeness, they also successfully convinced you they’re a good little christian despite having left the church years ago, and have processed and struggled with their gender and sexuality for longer than you would guess. you probably don’t know their biggest fear, or favorite film, much less the intimate details about their gender or sexuality.
I don't trust Christians because if you dedicate your life to the Bible, you obviously need it to be right. And all interpretations of the Bible come from the same damn book. You could decide that any interpretation is right and have so much to back you up. What if you actually read the book and see that it does say gays deserve death for existing or that women are inferior? The Bible terrifies me because the easiest interpretation is the one that's already laid out
I definitely prefer more progressive interpretations of the Bible, but interpretations aside, if it rules your life, if your religion comes before your humanity, there is nothing to stop you from falling down that fundamentalist hellhole. If the Bible being right is what's most important to you, we have a SERIOUS problem. If someone convinces you that their immoral interpretation is correct, you're not going to drop your faith. Instead, you're going to let go of your humanity and hurt people.
So my partner’s family is generally really conservative and -phobic in probably too many ways to list here, and he was talking about how he heard some of them being pretty lgbtq-phobic and all that, and now I just want to roll up in a few years with a shirt that says “I’m the disgusting queer the church warned you about” because I think they would die on the spot
Oofghfg extended family are having homosexual behavior discourse™️
