• juliebean@lemmy.zip
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    3 months ago

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

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      3 months 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?”

    • billwashere@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I act on all the homosexual urges I have. They just happen to be zero. If you have homosexual urges it’s likely because you’re gay. I’m not really sure why this concept is so hard especially for the ultra religious….