I Have Been Thinking…

And you know that is dangerous.

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I read a lot of news media and over time I have come to realize the importance of education and what their end game is. The book banning gives a hint along with the “Don’t Say Gay” laws that bans anything LGBTQ+.

By banning anything LGBTQ+ they are teaching children who are LGBTQ+ that they are somehow “bad” something filthy and not to talk about. It also teaches the straight students that it is okay to pick on people who are different from them.

People who have a different skin color can’t talk about slavery and that keeps the truth from coming out.

People who have a different religion must be shunned. They are going to hell.

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The other thing that noticed is that most of the conservatives think being LGBTQ+ is a choice and I think that is the key to understanding them. They use terms like “grooming,” “lifestyle,” and "trans youth contagion" which denotes a choice. In an article on ABC News from 2010 got it right.

Being Gay a 'Lifestyle' Choice, Like Alcoholism? Politics of Homosexuality Flare in 2010 Campaign

Ken Buck says being gay a choice, likening it to alcoholism.

By Devin Dwyer

October 18, 2010

When Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck was pressed Sunday to explain his belief that being gay is a "lifestyle" choice, he compared it to alcoholism.

"I think that birth has an influence over [it], like [with] alcoholism and some other things, but I think that basically you have a choice," he told David Gregory on "Meet the Press." Buck was quick to add, however, that he's no "biologist."

Buck's view -- the underpinning for conservative opposition to broader civil rights for gays and lesbians -- is hardly new. But his comments are the latest this election season to stir up national debate and draw criticism for perpetuating prejudice against gays.

Earlier this month, New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino said he does not want his children "to be brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option -- it isn't." 

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"When a politician makes public remarks that seem to degrade or devalue a group of people, then he or she is potentially sanctioning a view that says some Americans are inherently less valuable as citizens than others," said Vanderbilt University professor Vanessa Beasley, an expert in political rhetoric.

When you stop and think for a moment it all makes sense. That is where all their hate comes from, they actually think we recruit people.

And it all comes back to education.

They don’t want anything about us in the classroom because the students might learn that being LGBTQ+ is not a choice but an inborn characteristic.

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