• TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    "Ah, but they choose to act on it! You see, my old preacher struggled with gay thoughts all the time because of Satan. He told us so nearly every Sunday. But did he act on them? No! He was straight, just as god intended.

    So those people having gay thoughts are CHOOSING to be gay when they could pray and get a wife and have children like the lord said."

    -Some dipshit I know

    • juliebean@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      “He resisted his homosexual urges, and remained faithful to his heterosexual wife until the very day he shot himself.”

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        1 month ago

        Something like this is what encouraged my wife’s conservative grandmother to reconsider her thoughts on the topic. She heard about a gay teen who committed suicide and asked “if it was a choice, why wouldn’t they just choose not to be gay instead of killing themselves?”

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      No this is literally it though. They think being gay is a choice because they’re repressed, and constantly feel tempted. They assume everyone feels that, and only gay people give in.