• TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    "Ah, but they choose to act on it! You see, my old preacher struggled with gay thoughts all the time because of Satan. He told us so nearly every Sunday. But did he act on them? No! He was straight, just as god intended.

    So those people having gay thoughts are CHOOSING to be gay when they could pray and get a wife and have children like the lord said."

    -Some dipshit I know

    • juliebean@lemmy.zip
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      11 months ago

      “He resisted his homosexual urges, and remained faithful to his heterosexual wife until the very day he shot himself.”

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        11 months ago

        I act on all the homosexual urges I have. They just happen to be zero. If you have homosexual urges it’s likely because you’re gay. I’m not really sure why this concept is so hard especially for the ultra religious….

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          11 months ago

          Or they’re bi. I grew up ultra religious and the choice explanation made more sense to me because I had both homo and hetero urges, and I assumed it was the same for everyone (I thought of people who claimed otherwise as self-righteous). In my mind at the time homosexual urges were just part of people’s sinful nature they had to overcome. The whole thing only seems so incoherent from an outside perspective, which I was fortunately able to arrive at after experiencing the world more.