I posted this on FB, so some of you have seen this. But what is really hitting home is how much of this is hitting the kids, due to exposure to small, not particularly biased seeming snippets
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I broke it down for Caroline to say that he doesn't like people who look different from him (remember, Caroline is black), he didn't stop touching people when they said stop, and he doesn't like people who worship differently than him. He doesn't think women should be able to make their own decisions about their bodies. And we will keep him far away from her.
Keeping Caroline away from him is the easy part, there's no way he'll be anywhere in Kansas and we will certainly not be in DC in the next 4 years with such young kids anyway. I do talk to Caroline a little about religion, not as much as I should, and she knows about Baha'u'llah, Jesus and Buddha right now. I haven't talked to her about his LGBT ideas, but she knows in this house, we support love, and men marry men, and men marry women, and women marry women, and women marry men, and that's all normal.
Thanks for the feedback--it is helpful to hear what other people do. We've pretty much said the exact same things, framing it more how he sounds really sheltered, ignorant and bubbled that way, despite being a not-young guy who was arguable power player (con man) in NYC
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I'm perplex by that too. Like does he have a secretly gay family member?
It may be that he can't see past or relate to race or gender/women's issues, but somehow he has had enough rich white male gay friends that he is able to be more accepting?
However, I have a theory that it may also be part of a tactic to get groups to be divisive and hate each other more because some are getting the pass and others are being persecuted.
Or maybe it's just a deal he made with someone-- he doesn't do the anti-gay EO and they will support some other EO.
I sense he personally doesn't care at all what people do. He hasn't always been consistent politically, but has been reasonably consistent there. But he also doesn't care enough to protect the community, hence strategically choosing Pence to help with the evangelical vote.
But yeah, I'm sure he doesn't mind keeping the Milos of the world :(
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Keeping Caroline away from him is the easy part, there's no way he'll be anywhere in Kansas and we will certainly not be in DC in the next 4 years with such young kids anyway. I do talk to Caroline a little about religion, not as much as I should, and she knows about Baha'u'llah, Jesus and Buddha right now. I haven't talked to her about his LGBT ideas, but she knows in this house, we support love, and men marry men, and men marry women, and women marry women, and women marry men, and that's all normal.
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It may be that he can't see past or relate to race or gender/women's issues, but somehow he has had enough rich white male gay friends that he is able to be more accepting?
However, I have a theory that it may also be part of a tactic to get groups to be divisive and hate each other more because some are getting the pass and others are being persecuted.
Or maybe it's just a deal he made with someone-- he doesn't do the anti-gay EO and they will support some other EO.
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I sense he personally doesn't care at all what people do. He hasn't always been consistent politically, but has been reasonably consistent there.
But he also doesn't care enough to protect the community, hence strategically choosing Pence to help with the evangelical vote.
But yeah, I'm sure he doesn't mind keeping the Milos of the world :(
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