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What he said:


A person can be a violently self-loathing closet case and a devout-if-demented "believer." The former all but requires the latter. To blame gayness for the harm done to gay people by a gay person who was harmed by straight people—who was warped by religious hatred and religious homophobia—is, to borrow a phrase, a neat Orwellian trick.

And the rightwing haters and Christian conservative shitstains who are screaming and yelling about how this guy was gay—and who are attempting to blame gayness, not poisonous religious hatred, for the shooting in Orlando—well, gee. These are the same people who insist gayness is a choice, the same people who insist that being gay is not an immutable characteristic, the same people who insist that gay people can "free" themselves from homosexuality by choosing to be straight. These people are all over the Internet insisting that the shooter, a man who was married to two different women, a man who identified as straight, a man who rejected homosexuality and choose heterosexuality, just like they advise us all to, wasn't really straight and wasn't ever straight. So homosexuality is only an immutable characteristic when it suits them.