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While that is true, and the hate for any religious practice or belief on lemmy is a bit grating (I'm an atheist), my best friend grew up in the witnesses and was robbed of the only family and community she had ever known when she was excommunicated, because she accepted baptism at like 12 or some shit. Which is a totally appropriate age to be putting all of your support systems and your literal family on the line if you ever change religious perspectives or realize you're gay.
She's now married to her childhood best friend; they had a very cute gay wedding.
It is good that they are generally nice folks. It is fucked up that they think that is an okay thing to do to children. Robbing children of their families for accepting something they were too young to understand is frankly disturbing.
It really isn't, though. There's nothing I hate worse than polite, evil people who make tone arguments and value appearance over substance. The way they condescend to you just adds insult to injury.
If it helps they are also victims of cult brainwashing (I imagine it does not 🙃 personally it just makes me sad)