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Male Pastors From Texas Are 8 Times (At Least) More Likely To Sexually Assault Minors Than Drag Queens- Reform Austin (www.reformaustin.org)

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In far-right conservative Christian circles, it’s standard to accuse LGBT people of sexually grooming minors simply by existing in the same space. Drag queens and trans people are particularly targeted. There is zero evidence that LGBT people are sexual predators beyond the rate of the general population.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

So the issue is that they're conflating two things, like regressive so tend to do.

The issue they want to cover up is exactly this - sexual abuse of children. So they block education that would empower kids to understand what's being done to them, they block schools from explaining consent, etc.

Simultaneously, they point to anyone who isn't a straight Christian and call that grooming too, because their existence implies to children that they don't have to identify as a straight Christian.

Two completely different things, and they use the same word to dilute it's impact.