Years ago I helped out at an event, a loal mechanic volunteered, spent the day doing 100% free oil changes. People complained so hard because of all the people he couldn’t get to, and demanding compensation, the organizers had to ask him not to volunteer agian. For context this was a single mothers event at a church. Same church people got mad I opened the door for people (Because I got thanked and then they fought over who should be allowed to hold open the door bcs brownie points).

Point is, people will be wholly angry, vehemently indignant, about the stupidest things no matter what, as one said, so long as two people exist, someone is going to want someone else dead.

Burning the planet is profitable so there’s the need to keep everybody distracted and not look to closely at the arsonists.

The hate all makes sense when you realize three things:

They believe LGBT is immoral.

They believe LGBT is a choice.

They believe straight people can be converted.

Not about to write an essay on how stupid each of those points are, but that’s why their hate is internally consistent.

I turned my best friend away from homophobia with this: “Fine. It’s a choice. Remember when you were a horny teenager? You’d fuck about thing you could get your dick in, right? So tell me about how you made the choice to go after women.”

LOL, I utterly corrupted that motherfucker! Went from a Southern Baptist conservative to a liberal atheist.

Like my observant friend George, I’ve always been against this framing… The planet is doing fine, she’s been through a lot worse than us in her 4.5 billion year existence. It’s us people that are fucked.