My dad fought in WWII to stop this kind of shit. My dad also didn't treat queers or POC differently than white people. My dad went to church & taught Sunday school without ramming his biases down others' throats. In fact, that's *exactly* what & how he taught in Sunday school, *including* what queers did in both private & public. Why do I know this? Because I heard him say and do it.
My dad ran a country store for a while. There was a Black man in the neighborhood, Leonard, who came to the store a lot. Leonard once told me quietly that dad treated him "like a white man." I was never so proud of my father and so humiliated by my race at the same time.
Once when teaching Sunday school, Dad said that he thought "go forth and multiply" applied to queers just like it did to straights, and that queers were doing exactly that, just doing it in appropriately queer fashion. Yes, there's no issue (in the sense of kids), but as tons of straights know, there are solutions to that problem. When half of all human fertilization events result in miscarriage, that means most straight sex acts *don't* result in biological offspring. Get over yourselves.
Also, if you're upset about my use of the words "queer" & "queers," & you consider yourself queer, I apologize. I guess I'm exercising my privilege in using a term for a group I'm not a member of. But if you're straight, I bet you can guess my answer by now: Go. Fuck. Yourself.
I sure as hell ain't perfect, & maybe I'm flattering myself, but I think I'm better than a lot of the assholes, WATBs, MAGAts, QAnon freaks, antivaxxers, financial grifters, GQPers, and other lusers I see in the news regularly. They're mostly snowflakes who can't stand seeing *or even thinking* about someone doing something they don't like. They'll eventually kill each other & eat their own kind politically, but until then, they fuck up a lot of other people. Stop, you dumbass Big Mad gits.
@jhv I think “queer people” is better than “queers” same way “Jewish people” is better than “jews” when someone isn’t part of the group (I’m a queer jew) but your point stands
@Wordnerdy You're right, especially in public speech.
This may sound off, but I think I've had the benefit of knowing a lot of gay, lesbian, bisexual, & otherwise "queer" people. It's probably led me to say things in ways I shouldn't out of familiarity. But it's better if I didn't.
Also, after I read the story that set me off, I was angry. I think that made me want to soften my language less, because fuck those other people who act like that. ;) But thank you for saying something.
@Wordnerdy Yeah, I didn't even link that story here. It was in another post. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@jhv oh yeah and I definitely took it in the spirit you intended! Thank /you/!!