It’s probably not up yet. I notice that official Maddow clips don’t come up on her site as fast as I like.
“[Trump is a] loud, nasty, thin-skinned fraud who has never risked anything for anyone and who serves no one but himself,” she told the audience.
For some people yes, because in their mind they are saving their child from a lifetime of misery and an eternity of damnation. By forcing them to change or be cut-off forever, they are pressuring them to return to the righteous path. There are some families that take the still messed-up but at least it’s something…
Right. Exactly what I was trying to say. People are refuting me by saying: “No, they were just bi all along and didn’t know it.” That kind of thinking takes the agency out of the person experiencing it and forces a concept in linearity onto identity that doesn't exist. Like, I was a punk rocker when I was in high…
Yeah, there’s shades of gray to everything, and I’ve seen sexual orientation shift and be fluid in women and men over the years. I butt heads with the “born this way” concept a lot, because ultimately it shouldn’t matter if it’s biology or psychology, the gender mix of people who love each other is irrelevant. There…
Or, more specifically “we didn’t raise a gay child. No, not US!”
Heartlight seems to take the ‘loving’ Christian position that homosexuality is just not a real thing. So, it’s not about her sexuality. It’s about her mental health, her ‘offensive choices’, her ‘sinful activities’ and ‘a lifestyle that God warns against’.
If you’re an old, like me, we’re safe. A teen? Not so much in many states.
There are laws against “incorrigibility”? Shit. I am in trouble then. I hope there aren’t any laws against being cantankerous.
Besides, Sarah isn’t being “misrepresented.” That sounds a lot like “SHE’S NOT REALLY GAY YOU GUYS.”
The Austin-American Statesman spoke to Sarah’s mother, who confirmed Sarah was sent away, but strongly denied it was for being gay: “It has nothing to do with her sexuality.” She said Sarah would be “heartbroken” if she knew she was “being misrepresented in this way.”
Total bullshit. Though I do think there’s a rigidity to the “Born this way” narrative, for idiots like this pastor and the cruelty of her parents, it’s best for them to just let it sink into their thick skulls that sexual orientation is a trait in the same way eye color is - inherent and immutable.
And this is why I hate “incorrigibility” laws.
She’s still 17 so the parents may be able to force her to live at home, but IIRC the earlier story says she turns 18 in a few months.
So... I read this entire story as “Parents, you have to get your kid out of here, because your family is bringing too much heat on us! We just want to keep make money scamming fanatical homophobic suckers like you guys for the long term!” and “It’s OK for us to be known as these bigots in our family, but we don’t want…
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So glad she is out, but so sad for all the many others who are still forced into these things. They should not even be legal.