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lambchopp59

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2. PTSD triggered

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Original post)

Sun May 7, 2023, 11:28 AM

May 2023

Because I'm the survivor of Westboro's attempts to drive home what I heard ad nauseum for over 2 years: "Fags deserve nothing but death". It drove one other gay student to suicide. I came a little too close myself, and honestly had I not been quite so skeptical about rote thinking reinforcement (Dick and Jane "novels" made me ill to my stomach) I might have taken myself out also.
This is the spectre of the isolation and shaming the religious right wants for LGBTQ. I was so sickened by schoolmates who actually regaled in our schoolmate's suicide. Sickening shit no one should be subject to, yet here we are.

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A young gay Orthodox man died by suicide. We must confront how Jewish teachings harmed him [View all] Behind the Aegis May 2023 OP

What a beautiful young man. I wish someone could explain to me if homosexuality is a sin, LoisB May 2023 #1

PTSD triggered lambchopp59 May 2023 #2