I told my gay son the other day that it is finally settled - since Russia hates gay people so much, by definition it is cool and OK to be gay.
I knew my gay son was gay before he was even a teen. Just like I knew my straight son was straight before he was a teen. It is just genetics. They were raised by the same mom and dad in exactly the same way with exactly the same values and exactly the same environment.
In Republicans minds, if it is genetics, then they have to consider the possibility that God made errors. That drives them to the conclusion they have to send their gay kids to sexual reorientation camp as God is always right, and it must be the devil who changed them.
My ex-wife, and I never had an issue with him being gay. I would’ve preferred that he wasn’t because of all the threats to his physical and mental well-being caused by idiots who will attack him. Fortunately, he lives in a time when his high school classmates were cool, and he did not get treated in the unfortunate way that many teens were treated back in the day.
He does tell me stories about how many of his gay friends were treated so horribly by their families who could not accept their being gay.
Back to my comment about young people today not having that homophobic outlook that many of their elders do: since the republican party is all in on anti-abortion and anti-gay, there’s a 0% chance that 20 years from now this country won’t be so progressive on race and gender issues that the GQP would not recognize it. THAT is part of the GOP and religious fear - that the coming change is inexorable. That the country will be less white, less misogynistic, more gay friendly and less religious, and there is not a damn thing they can do to stop it. I won’t be alive then, but I look forward to it for everyone else. But that does not mean they won’t try really, really hard in the short time they have in power.