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ID: a tweet by @theLiamNissan from 26 Jun 23.

Republicans will tell you "the gays are coming for your children" and then immediately turn around and pass a law making it legal to marry 13 year old girls in Kentucky.

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Republicans demand trauma and abuse.

#ID provided #and they literally - genuinely - may see the hypocrisy but they DO NOT CARE #it isn't ACTUALLY about the children #generally speaking it's about an assorted smorgasbord of christian fundamentalism:#in the first place a lot of Americans are Calvinists to varying degrees and truly believe that whether they will be good or bad #is predetermined and set in stone. they believe they are christian and therefore good.#they believe gays are not and therefore are bad #and this means that anything that *feels* bad to them is bad and anything that doesn't *isn't* even if it doesn't logically check out #this isn't like... necessarily a conscious thought pattern but it's definitely an impactful one #but also: the thing is... when you get to the kid marriage stuff there's a hell of a lot of mormonism you're up against #(other denominations too but especially mormonism)#and the thing is. largely speaking you have two options: you either join the religious order or you get married. those are the only two Goo #options for your life #and note that the marriage *should* end with a child - explicitly i - raised catholic - was taught that the options for a life calling are #religious order OR 'marriage with the intent to procreate'#... i may have asked if marriage by two trans people who did intend to have kids was then sinful / not allowed and caused some fun drama #by the nun and Youth Director TM answering us - who both were relatively progressive.#anyways - it's really... not an expectation that marriage is about a loving relationship per se as much as a duty to God #it's not expected that the kid is going to be having *sex* at those ages. it's about 'setting them up for the future' and letting them #'slowly ease into their duties as a wife' and such shit #the expectation is that it's not about harming the child. it's that it's *helping* and *saving* the child #and yes that's uhhh fucking Bullshit but you gotta work with some knowledge of their beliefs to actually counter them #to them this *is not the same thing*

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