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Much like “pray the gay away” there’s this ongoing idea among conservatives that being gay is a choice, so by that reasoning kids can be recruited into being ga
by macintux 5y ago
Much like “pray the gay away” there’s this ongoing idea among conservatives that being gay is a choice, so by that reasoning kids can be recruited into being gay.
- heavyset_go 5y agoIt's a long-standing conspiracy theory that there's a shadowy cabal of LGBT people that are trying to confuse and convert kids into being LGBT themselves, because a new supply of LGBT people wouldn't exist without tricking them into being gay. Which is ironic, considering the prevalence of conversion therapy, but conversion therapy is consistent with their assertion that people are converted into being gay, so it follows that they can be converted out of it. A lot of those same people who believe that are bitter that some teachers are LGBT and are allowed to teach their kids, and legislation that prevents teachers from discussing their lives, the lives of students with two moms or dads, the lives of students who are LGBT themselves, or any kind of LGBT acceptance, is how they're coping with it. That, and creating a defamatory crusade and moral panic against the people they don't like.
- dontcare007 5y ago