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this took my thinking farther than it had gone. it really helped for you to point out all the ways heteronormative sexuality, moms and dads kissing, is sweet, and the same between a different kind of pair is abhorrent and dangerous. everything outside of this one constellation is bad, and gay and trans people are the perfect target. so much of how the right approaches life, issues, power politics is zero sum... if you have any (room in the society to enjoy your own ways of loving, it will threaten my grip on the pool of people i hope to choose from. it's pretty stunning about florida as the next stop for predatory priests. the desire to prevent children from understanding the world they're coming up in, physically as well as otherwise, to deprive them of protection, your perspective that children are the target for drumming up fear and antipathy...

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