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  • This part is a slippery slope that I don’t have a pithy hot take for. I wish I did.

    I mean, do I really want to wait from 1776 or 1791 until 2013¹ for the state to mandate that all marriage license-issuing court clerks be required to issue marriage licenses to any unmarried pair of adults, even if the pair was assigned the same gender at birth?

    Lots of Americans still resent that those clerks are funded by their tax dollars.


    1. marriage between those without matching birth-certificate sex was the only legal marriage in the United States during this period




  • They would not.

    Lots of people whose parents are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (which had a shorter nickname until 2018, but even a church that self-identifies as the Universe’s one true church should not be deadnamed after transitioning) teach their children to:

    1. go proselytize, door-to-door, for two years after high school, during which, they must
    2. spend all that time being never alone, with a person of the same sex as they were assigned at birth, and they must
    3. never masturbate, and then
    4. come home and go [back] to BYU, but also
    5. begin having children with a spouse as soon as possible, all the while,
    6. being at the age of their highest libido ever and surrounded by people, each in their physical prime, and then most importantly, they must
    7. not discover, realize, or admit they might not be straight. It is forbidden. Like fruit of the tree of knowledge. For to do so would mean they must never ever have sex, or alternatively, that they must marry a person to whom they are not attracted, and then be encouraged to procreate with that person anyway.

    THIS IS WHAT MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS ARE ACTUALLY TOLD TO BELIEVE








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    2 years ago

    Blocking a community is easy, especially from Voyager!

    But trying to block that x-dot-com guy

    • whose fortune was built upon his father’s apartheid-era South African emerald mine, and
    • who’s an authoritarian apologist on the other end of the political spectrum, and
    • who deadnames his daughter, who herself has excised her life and last name from his, and
    • who appears in almost every fucking community

    is, alas, not yet easy in the Fediverse.