[It's probably for the best that this isn't a conversation taking place in person because the eyeroll Alastor makes would've infuriated you. What you wrote sounds quite close to some of the latest generation of sinners who Fall and wail that they shouldn't be in Hell, that society made them do the things they did. They were innocent victims forced into such things.]
[As if being killed over prejudice is a new invention.]
First of all, being singled out and killed for something one cannot help isn't unique to those with sexual preferences outside the biological standard. Being mixed race during a time period where sections of the South and the North -- loathe as the latter is to admit it -- where I'd be lynched for having darker skin wasn't the safest either. The darker half of my heritage didn't care much for me either, pockets of them beating those they deemed light-skinned encroaching on "their territory". Sometimes to death. There will always be those who despise those different from them and will seek to do them harm. It's humanity and every other sapient species' worst trait.
Second, I don't understand why one would have pride in something they had no choice in. I could understand celebrating one's accomplishments in spite of factors they couldn't control that others condemn them for -- rubbing their accomplishments in their detractors' faces -- but why celebrate something you specifically had no choice in? It'd be like me holding a special celebration in honor of my skin color when I'd had no choice in the matter.
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[As if being killed over prejudice is a new invention.]
First of all, being singled out and killed for something one cannot help isn't unique to those with sexual preferences outside the biological standard. Being mixed race during a time period where sections of the South and the North -- loathe as the latter is to admit it -- where I'd be lynched for having darker skin wasn't the safest either. The darker half of my heritage didn't care much for me either, pockets of them beating those they deemed light-skinned encroaching on "their territory". Sometimes to death. There will always be those who despise those different from them and will seek to do them harm. It's humanity and every other sapient species' worst trait.
Second, I don't understand why one would have pride in something they had no choice in. I could understand celebrating one's accomplishments in spite of factors they couldn't control that others condemn them for -- rubbing their accomplishments in their detractors' faces -- but why celebrate something you specifically had no choice in? It'd be like me holding a special celebration in honor of my skin color when I'd had no choice in the matter.