Ding Dong, the asshole's dead!

[drfuzzy]

So now we're celebrating when someone dies?

Huggy, I try - nearly all of the time, I really do - to give people benefit of the doubt, to honor their freedom to believe anything they want to believe.  But I lived for years in a group that practically worshiped the man, and made it their mission to spread his hate and bigotry and viciousness out into the world.  So forgive me my moment of celebration, that I'm happy that someone who, in my mind, was many times more evil than the grand wizard of the Klu Klux Klan, is dead.

This one especially made it personal.  Exhorting the faithful to fuck with my tribe in regards to basic civil liberties was/is evil.

I  encountered this tract as an adult, after 'coming out', I can't help but wonder how many teens were damaged by this one, or were damaged by followers that think the tracts are just okily-dokily.

My own mother gave one of these to me when I was 16.  I spent the next 5 years frantically praying to gawd to take my queer demon away.  I tried to commit suicide more than once.  I VOLUNTARILY went into a gay-conversion group, and to exorcisms.  They didn't take, because of course, there was no demon - it was the way I was made.