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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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?"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    "if it was a choice, why wouldn't they just choose not to be gay instead of killing themselves?"

    Props to gramma. A lot of conservative people honestly just would dismiss it with the backwards logic; "so stupid of them to kill themselves when they could've just chosen not to be gay".

    I'm unsure whether they actually believe it themselves, though.

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