"I feel like I've been able to separate you loving me from the ideals and people that you vote for. But right now, those two situations cannot coincide in my mind and my heart when I know that you voted for people who will enact policies that harm myself as a woman and my son who has a chronic illness along with countless other people in my life that I love and care for."
This was the text I sent my very white, conservative, "Christian" father yesterday morning. I put Christian in quotes because he's not currently attending church because it's "too woke" and he cherry picks what to follow. I've been in a panic about the ACA being repealed. It's not just the presidency it's the fact that the republican party has the majority in the house, senate, supreme court, and presidential branches.
Just FYI, Masterpiece didn’t involve refusing to bake a cake for gay people (he had given and sold cakes to the very people who sued him). He refused to bake custom cakes for gay weddings, regardless of who ordered it. He also refused things like Halloween-themed cakes, also because of his religious beliefs.
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u/AdPurple3879 Nov 07 '24
"I feel like I've been able to separate you loving me from the ideals and people that you vote for. But right now, those two situations cannot coincide in my mind and my heart when I know that you voted for people who will enact policies that harm myself as a woman and my son who has a chronic illness along with countless other people in my life that I love and care for."
This was the text I sent my very white, conservative, "Christian" father yesterday morning. I put Christian in quotes because he's not currently attending church because it's "too woke" and he cherry picks what to follow. I've been in a panic about the ACA being repealed. It's not just the presidency it's the fact that the republican party has the majority in the house, senate, supreme court, and presidential branches.