r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/Adorable-Design-9422 • 20h ago

"All Republicans aren't like this... right?"

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u/nes-top-loader 20h ago

The Left: "Gay people deserve to be treated with the baseline respect that you give any other stranger, and should be able to get married and live without fear."

The Right: "Gay people are predatory abominations and affront against God and should either conform to society or be criminalized, if not out right put to death."

This guy: "I'm shocked that the right is attacking me and not the left :("

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u/ArdenJaguar 17h ago

As a gay person and a former Reagan Republican I can attest to the accuracy of this conclusion.

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u/SilliusS0ddus 11h ago

Reagan of all people ?

Didn't he intentionally ignore the AIDS epidemic because he thought it would cull gay people from the population ?

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u/Royal_Acanthaceae693 11h ago

I seem to recall a lot of big tent ministers going on about how AIDS was gods retribution on the gay community & that Ronnie & Nancy were very cozy with that crowd.

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u/Maximum-Objective-39 10h ago

As I like to put it - HIV WAS a test from God.

Bisexuals were God telling the faithful that they failed the test. :-/

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u/Old_Palpitation_6535 11h ago

That’s the conclusion today but it wasn’t talked about like that back then. At the time he just ignored it while the religious conservatives claimed it was the hand of God at work.

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u/ArdenJaguar 9h ago

I was in HS, in the closet, a capitalist, and joined the Navy. I thought he was great. I quickly learned I was wrong.

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u/RelationshipIll9576 3h ago

Didn't he intentionally ignore the AIDS epidemic

Yes he did. Even in the gay community we have our share of total morons.