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A Republican candidate for Congress offered up his analysis of human sexuality and gender on Tuesday, in a group interview with South Florida’s Sun-Sentinel editorial board, alongside two other Republicans running to represent House District 20 in Broward County.

“You never see a giraffe, a male giraffe, that mate(s) with a giraffe,” Rod Joseph said. “Myself right now saying, ‘I am a giraffe,’ that doesn’t mean it’s true.”

Everyone is “born straight,” he offered.

The unusual assertion was made in answer to a question about U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) declaration at the beginning of Pride Month, “Homosexuality has no place in America.”

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[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

In other news, unicorns are straight

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

They still give me the horn.

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[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Of course this is in my backyard. God i hate this ass backwards state. I cant wait to escape Floriduh but the system just keeps keeping me down.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The white sand beaches are pretty nice, IMHO.

https://www.visitflorida.com/travel-ideas/articles/florida-white-orange-dark-sand-beaches/

Much of the sand on Florida beaches is made up of quartz crystals, produced by the weathering of continental land masses like the Appalachian mountains. The quartz is washed down America's great rivers into the Atlantic and the Gulf where it's carried onto the beaches by water currents and waves.

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If you wind up leaving, enjoy its strengths now.

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

The nature here is the only reason i didn't leave years ago. The beaches are great, the everglades are amazing. Hell, i even really enjoy our scrub forests. Id miss it for sure but its getting bad here.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wish I could just start a country and allow politicians to rule it but whenever one of them says anything about sexuality or immigrants it's just straight to the guillotine.

Well maybe we can just start doing that regardless of whether or not we start a new country first.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 points 3 months ago

I'd approve of that. Everyone who wants to mess with personal relationships or push fear of new arrivals deserves as much.

[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

land of the free... you are free to think and be exactly as those morons want you to think and be

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I was going to say, who knew giraffe scientists were this far into mapping the human genome, but then I read he was a Republican, so it’s obviously some tall tale

[–] bampop@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

If our giraffes don’t mate, how do they be like they do when they are?

[–] koniluum@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I mean I would argue that you cannot born gay but you can born to be gay.

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