#i remember the sheer joy when lawrence v texas was decided which was SO RECENT

[elskanellis]

When I was a child, multiple adults in my social circle were forcibly outed via the “getting arrested for cruising in the park at night” method and it always ended in tragedy. Just their whole lives blew up. At least one literally did not survive the scandal. And this was even before the AIDS panic reached my very small town in the shallow south.

Which is to say: this chapter of our history is literally within living memory for an awful lot of people. We are not exaggerating.

I have full confidence that things will get better, legally and socially, but I really think it will take long enough to get better, that in the meantime a lot of people will be significantly hurt. And it’s already happening: if you are queer: even if you are cis: even if you are confident or certain you don’t need abortion or contraception: anti-trans laws and anti-abortion laws are already coming for you, because they are all about this kind of control. And anti-sodomy laws are just another brick in the wall they want to build, to contain us and to keep us separate from our joy.

Anyway with anti-sodomy laws back on the discussion table I'm going to repeat that you can personally be squicked out by the consensual sex someone else has, but saying that their consensual sex between willing, active, adult participants should be illegal and is indicative of some sort of moral failing is L I T E R A L L Y a major facet in extreme homophobia and absolutely has gotten people killed.

You don't have to like their business but as long as everyone involved in the encounter is saying yes, it's also really not your business.

This is the precident you are helping further by digging your heels in and saying 'but I think it's gross and makes them bad people'. This is what happened last time that was the reasoning for law, and what is being threatened to happen again.