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I wish I knew how to get people to care about things that actually matter even 10% as much as they care about things that will never, ever affect their lives in any material way... and are also NONE OF THEIR GODDAMNED FUCKING BUSINESS.
Why do you care if someone likes dick?
Because he likes dick, I guarantee it.
"You aren't born liking dick. You choose to like dick, just like I'm choosing not to like dick. I don't like dick, I don't like dick, I don't like dick, I don't, I don't, I don't"
He says to himself while gargling balls in a public restroom.
I mean if he stays away from the dick and just gargles the balls, maybe he really doesn't like dick
(He's still lying to himself and self-loathing, but what if?)
I do like balls, I don't like dick, I do like balls, I don't like dick, I do like grglgrglgrgl..vote for me!
Because they do too but were told it's bad.
So much of the anti-LGBTQ hysteria comes from people who are in immediate proximity to friends and loved ones coming out of the closet. And while the natural response to this occurrence is to show love and support, we have a deluge of misinformation that's designed to poison people into believing the most insane bullshit.
Which is to say, people do care. But they tend to get their heads scrambled with reactionary media. And the end result is that, after hearing for decades "if you're gay then you've become the victims of sexual assault and you're going to do drugs and you'll get horrible diseases that will kill you", they respond with abject horror at the slightest hint of queerness. Same if you see a sibling or a child or (god fucking forbid) a parent or spouse show signs of it.
The end result of this firehose of induced anxiety, combined with the economic pressures of poverty and the social pressures of fascist religious institutions, is incoherent panic.
Because then they'll make you like dick and liking dick will kill you and damn your soul in a lake of fire for eternity.
I'm guessing religion.
Leviticus 18:22:
Leviticus 20:13:
Jude 1:7
Referencing:
Genesis 19
Genesis 19:5–8
And:
Genesis 19:12–13
And:
Genesis 19:24–25:
Romans 1:26–28
1 Corinthians 6:9–10
Oh, well, if a 2,000 year old book written by people who couldn't even get decent lube says so then who am I to argue.
Most of that is just Sodom and Gomorrah. God has more to say about what to do with slaves and how to treat them compared to sexual relations between two people.
Iirc that might have been mistranslated and it actually meant don't rape male children.
Religion is the excuse, not the cause. There's a fair number of religious institutions which are queer friendly or at least queer-indifferent. You gravitate towards the religious group that echoes your own biases. Those biases aren't imbued by some supernatural force. They're the result of material incentives and social divides that demagogues exploit when they fashion a religious doctrine.