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[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or to hide away at home so that they don't have to explain to their children that sometimes other people do stuff that isn't your business.

[–] libra00@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

Nah the kids are strictly an excuse of convenience. So much of conservative antipathy toward gay, queer, trans, etc people amounts to 'get back in the closet so that I can forget that people who are different than me exist.' They are willing to heap a lot of hate, discrimination, etc upon other people just so they don't have to be a little uncomfortable occasionally. Pretty much any time someone drops a 'Won't someone please think of the children?!' what they mean is 'I hate this but I can frame it as being about protecting children so I don't look like a hateful bastard.'