Christians literally go door to door: “Knock Knock Knock. Have you found Christianity? I’ve chosen a christian way of life and I think it’s a great way of life. I think you should choose to be christian. I think you should raise your children to be christian. I think we should teach christianity in school. I think we should elect christian leaders. I think we should have a christian society.”

So they think gay people go around going: “Knock Knock Knock. Have you found gayness? I’ve chosen a gay way of life and it’s a great way of life. I think you should choose to be gay. I think you should raise your children to be gay. I think we should teach gayness in school. I think we should elect gay leaders. I think we should have a gay society.”

Which is of course as ridiculous as thinking: “Knock Knock Knock. Have you found left-handedness? I’ve chosen a left-handed way of life and it’s a great way of life. I think you should choose to be left-handed. I think you should raise your children to be left-handed. I think we should teach left-handedness in school. I think we should elect left-handed leaders. I think we should have a left-handed society.”

(Now it’s not just gay, it’s trans too.)

  • aidan@lemmy.world
    8·
    9 months ago

    Weird I’ve heard about this from so many countries, from Japan to almost every communist country.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      10·
      9 months ago

      The US did it too for a while. The justification seems to have been something to do with left-handed versus right-handed brain processing or something like that. They were worried that they were going to get a generation of artists and poets and that no one would actually do anything industrial.

      Also there’s something in the Bible about people having left hands being agents of the devil, although it seems to only be in certain editions.

      The idea that left-handed people are more artistic than right-handed people has been debunked for years now and yet it’s still something people seem to think is true.

    • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com
      4·
      9 months ago

      Happened to my wife’s mother in the Netherlands in the 1950s. She did everything left handed but wrote right handed.

      By the 1970s this was over here, so I guess the southpaws were able to convert enough people to their godless ways. 😉