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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Does anybody remember the And Tango Makes Three fiasco?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I remember Manny Pacquiao saying homosexuals are worst than animals because homosexuality does not exist in the animal kingdom. He was promptly educated.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

"I'm sorry for hurting people by comparing homosexuals to animals. Please forgive me for those I've hurt. I still stand on my belief that I'm against same sex marriage because of what the Bible says, but I'm not condemning LGBT. I love you all with the love of the Lord. God Bless you all and I'm praying for you."

Clearly not well enough. This is the old liberal-adjacent "Hate the sin, love the sinner" canard that moderate fundamentalists trot out, in order to exist in that gray "agree to disagree" space liberals love. Give it too much room to breath, and you're going to be escorted to the Gay Conversion Therapy Camps with big rainbow colored "ordnen macht frei" signs over the entrance gate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is such an absurd "article". Picking out a couple of comments from the internet to literally brew conflict for clicks is not sound journalism.

You guys seem to love living in an echochamber. Lemmy really has become very unwelcoming to anyone centrally aligned or learning about the world.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I don't get what's centrist about LGBTQ+ rights.

Anything restricting equal rights for all based on sexuality, gender and orientation, color or creed is surely a far right, extremist position?

Whats centrist about "gay people exist?"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yea it kinda sucks. You and I can be central together. Right here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

"stuck in the middle with you"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

George Clooney voiced a gay dog on South Park in '97.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago

Something happening in fiction is not proof it happens in real life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

You love to see it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Conservatives are freaking out about I don’t care, they’ve proven they are idiots and will believe anything

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh, this sh*tfest is hilarious.

We’ve known about gay penguins since 1912, and regressives are just now cottoning on?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The conservative education system makes a special effort to misinform/occlude information about certain natural facts of life for generations of people. So every graduation cycle or two, you've got a fresh faced cohort of brainwashed kids who have to find out about the gay penguins from 1912 for the first time, ten years after they've cemented their bias against homosexuality on "rationalist" grounds.

We've been playing similar games with evolution since the fucking Stokes Monkey Trial. Identical debunked arguments showed up in The Panda's Thumb over a century after they were ostensibly put to bed.

You'll periodically see this show up in regards to phrenology and eugenics, as well. All sorts of inane long-dismissed claims about how physiognomy clues amateur race-sleuths in to someone's criminal intent or intellectual fitness or breeding capacity.

Recycling pseudoscience and vaguely sourced gossip is also very popular in anti-abortion circles, giving us all sorts of zombie lies about pagan blood sacrifice of fetuses and elaborate plots to cull the white race.

The dogmatism of western bigotry is baked into conservative ideology. You can find people dredging up the same old tired lies from the 19th century in arguments made before the US Congress and the Supreme Court to this very day.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

"If animals can be gay, I could be gay, but I am not gay! 😱" - Republican caught sucking dick in an alley

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

"I'm not gay for sucking dick; this dick is gay for getting sucked."

This is logic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Meh, I deleted this, it was just going to get misinterpreted by literalists.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Republican caught sucking dick in an alley

That made me snort :D

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ironically, you can enjoy sucking dick without being gay. Because sexuality is a spectrum.

If the Republicans would stop being so defensive, they might find a lot to like about the sexuality spectrum.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Pretty much. The intersection of gender and sexuality spectrum means romantic attraction, sexual attraction, and sexual interests can mix and match in a lot of ways.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Uuuuuhhhhhhh none of those words sounds like "male and female he created them" buddy, straight to Hell with ye

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

yes but that doesn't help reinforce right-wingers' feelings of superiority

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That's not snot!!!!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How dare the animals engage in such unnatural behavior!!! /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Holy shit... Conversion Therapy for pets.

Did we just stumble on a billion dollar grift that will only harm particularly awful people?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I have no doubt that some crazed conservative is out there shock-collaring their dogs or worse for "homosexual behaviour." They're absolutely deranged.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yeah it'd also harm the pets, you fool. Set that idea in the dustbin, where it belongs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Well, we're not actually going to do anything besides hang out with other people's pets then tell the owners they are "cured."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The really awesome pets are "more difficult to cure" so we are going to need them to stay longer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

^ this person gets it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

aah, clever.

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