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The idea that you can be worried that kids can “turn gay” simply from seeing openly queer performers not only doesn’t make any sense - How does someone turn gay? Are they removed from the lumber yard at Home Depot and, as though in a trance, they turn to kiss someone in the Garden Center? - it also speaks 100% to the base issue that you don’t like queer people. When you have kids, you’re supposed to have them with the idea that you have no idea who this person is meant to be. From birth, many of us will only see stories of heterosexual couples being told on screen, and notably many of the queer characters we will see will die tragic deaths, or one of them dies, perpetuating the message: “Be careful kids, being queer has consequences!” The happy endings, the acceptance, the happiness, often belongs solely to kids who go down the path society really wants you to go down: heterosexuality. The truth that so many of these Very Concerned Parents are ignoring is that heteronormative culture actively encourages kids to "turn straight." It dictates what someone’s assigned gender means, and how they should act because of that, and which gender they can love. Unless, of course “being who they’re allowed to be” means they are LGBTQ. I think if you asked the average parent which kind of world they want to see - one wherein their kids are allowed to be who they want to be, or one wherein they’re forced to become something they are not - they would unanimously favor the latter. He begins with a voiceover about how we are asked to hide the parts of ourselves that we don’t want the world to see, and introducing the idea of a world called Montero, where we don’t have to hide the true parts of ourselves. Lil Nas X, previously known to many parents as the person who sang kid-favorite “Old Town Road,” acknowledges this system in the music video. Some of the concern behind this music video in particular apparently stems from the belief that there is a “ machine” that wants your kids to “turn gay.” And while it goes without saying that no devout heterosexual can “turn gay” simply by seeing a music video, I can tell you if we have any “system” at all, that system wants to “turn you” straight.
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God is loving, he is compassionate, he is kind, he is forgiving.Lil Nas X recently released his “ Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” music video and instantly the internet exploded with, “This person is making our children gay! Hide your very straight kids who will see A Gay.” For so many reasons, I have questions. That behaviour also drives so many people away from getting to know him.
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So when God is represented badly by a Christian or by someone that's been hurt by a Christian, it really makes me sad because it's not who he is. I don't believe in God because a religion tells me to.
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She then adds: "The truth is that God exists. When it's really not about Christianity or religion at all." Comments like the one on top of Lil Nas' video, they often turn into back and forth conversations about religion, Christians against the gay community or Christians against everyone else. In the video, China says: "There's a lot of confusion about the way God is represented by people vs. we should put a human’s wrongdoings on the doorstep they belong on." Yesterday (Mar 30), China responded with a video captioned: "God is good. On Saturday (Mar 27), Lil Nas X posted a TikTok video in which he posed in front of the Satan lap dance in his 'Montero (Call Me By Your Name)' video with the caption: "yall love telling gay people we going to hell, then get mad when i decide to go?" China Anne McClain calls out Lil Nas X's depiction of God in his Montero via TikTok, Columbia Records