Growing up in an Argentine conservative catholic family we didn’t know any gay people...about all I knew was gay people weren’t getting into heaven....I was definitely taught it was a bad thing
I count sharing a bedroom with an out of the closet gay person at 19 in a conservative college as personal growth but hey sorry I am not woke enough...
I hear ya Hutch. I grew up in an evangelical family in rural, conservative upstate New York (though i started shedding my faith as soon as i started to develop heterosexual feelings, as i don't think *any* pre-marital sexual feelings were acceptable). One of my best friends when i was 19 was a gender confused, sexually ambiguous Madonna-wannabe. 30+ years later, I've lost touch with him/her/they. I'm sure he/she/they now have figured it all out, and now I'm the confused one who woke people think is a dick when i try to tell them this guy was my friend.
This is a problem with liberals, imo. Too much focus on wokeness and moral superiority (just like conservatives) and not enough focus on healthcare and economic issues. We'll probably lose in 2024.