I work in local government and I’ve been watching these people come out of the woodwork for the last three years during the pandemic. COVID-19 has galvanized these conservative nut jobs in a way...
I work in local government and I’ve been watching these people come out of the woodwork for the last three years during the pandemic. COVID-19 has galvanized these conservative nut jobs in a way that nothing has since Waco in the ‘90s.
They’ve realized that they can show up at local government meetings and they are legally entitled to give public comment. Everyone just has to sit there and listen to their hateful rhetoric for 3 minutes.
Anyway, these people can all go get fucked. I’m beyond tired of their bullshit. Seeing a gay person in a book isn’t going to turn their kid gay.
The clip ended with the woman striding away from the lectern, and the audience showering her with applause.
Weston, 28, said his heart was racing as he watched and rewatched the video — and not only because he opposes censorship. He’d instantly recognized the speaker.
It was his mother, Monica Brown.
The same woman, he said, who’d removed pages from science books when he was a child to keep him and his siblings from seeing illustrations of male and female anatomy. The woman who’d always warned that reading the wrong books or watching the wrong movies could open the door to sinful temptation. And the one, he said, who’d effectively cut him off from his family four years ago after he came out as gay.
“You are not invited to our house for Thanksgiving or any other meal,” his mother had texted to him in November 2018, eight months after he revealed his sexual orientation to his parents.
I am consistently amazed at just how genuinely shitty some people can be. What an awful person.
“You are not invited to our house for Thanksgiving or any other meal,” his mother had texted to him in November 2018, eight months after he revealed his sexual orientation to his parents.
I am consistently amazed at just how genuinely shitty some people can be. What an awful person.
And yet they genuinely believe themselves to be saving others. I can't understand how someone can believe in an all-loving God and then think that said god would be willing to eternally damn...
And yet they genuinely believe themselves to be saving others. I can't understand how someone can believe in an all-loving God and then think that said god would be willing to eternally damn others for any reason, let alone over sexual orientation.
I work in local government and I’ve been watching these people come out of the woodwork for the last three years during the pandemic. COVID-19 has galvanized these conservative nut jobs in a way that nothing has since Waco in the ‘90s.
They’ve realized that they can show up at local government meetings and they are legally entitled to give public comment. Everyone just has to sit there and listen to their hateful rhetoric for 3 minutes.
Anyway, these people can all go get fucked. I’m beyond tired of their bullshit. Seeing a gay person in a book isn’t going to turn their kid gay.
I am consistently amazed at just how genuinely shitty some people can be. What an awful person.
And yet they genuinely believe themselves to be saving others. I can't understand how someone can believe in an all-loving God and then think that said god would be willing to eternally damn others for any reason, let alone over sexual orientation.