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In reply to the discussion: American Bible-Thumper Travels To Scandinavia, Freaks Out After Discovering How Secular They Are [View all]Jamastiene
(38,206 posts)They are so myopic that they try things like telling me horror stories to try to scare me when I talk even about New York. I've been there. They swear up and down it is a dangerous and horrible place and not "safe" like Rockingham. Let's see. I got raped for being gay in Rockingham and totally accepted for being openly gay in NY. The place they are telling me is unsafe is actually safer for me than the place they are telling me is safe. It's really messed up how they view even a place like NY, and that was just upstate NY. They would absolutely freak if they saw places that are freer like in your OP. I think they should have to live in one of those places for a year to see what my world is like. I'm the oddball of my town because the culture around me is opposite of me. It's tough. I'd love to see them just try it, but I know what they would do. They would ruin wherever they went to stay for the year. The entire place would be chanting death to gays in just a few weeks or maybe a month or two, no longer. That's how they operate. They ruin anyplace good they find, brainwash good people, and turn them into haters too, unfortunately.
Better yet, just make it so as part of the reality show, they have to go but can't preach. That way the people who host them would be safe from their hideous hateful influence. I would bet money they would refuse if they were not allowed to preach and twist everything to fit their idea of what is "good," which nowadays is nonstop hatred of gay people and women, really.