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Stephen Breyer's Ice Cream's avatar

Dear Bradley Whitford,

As always: Never Tweet.

Regards,

Stephen Breyer's Ice Cream

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jennifer dianna's avatar

Has anyone out there tried to elaborate on why this is happening? Sure, on one level you have the true believers, who believe this is about morality or innocence or something. But what's the level beneath the true believers? Who/what does it benefit to not teach that sexualities besides hetero exist?

Like, if conservatives are so keen on preventing abortion, I don't understand why they haven't opened up to the idea that there are sexualities other than hetero - I mean, get a bunch of high schoolers identifying as asexual or homosexual and you've got your abortion problem covered, right? Unless they actually don't care about preventing unwanted pregnancies, because unwanted pregnancies end up being very profitable for them. In fact the whole pain machine of not knowing there are options and thinking there is something fundamentally wrong with you is probably pretty profitable as well.

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