I don't know what Trump is up to. I don't really believe he's a White Supremacist, though I wish he would cut ties with Elon Musk who absolutely is a White Supremacist.
I recently wrote a piece about being LGBTQ in a conservative culture. If you're LGBTQ and scared of what's going on currently, I encourage you to read that.
No, I'm not blaming the victim. I've been accused of blaming the victim for a lot of years for talking about what women can do differently in the face of stuff typically framed as misogyny and rape culture.
I'm trying to empower the victim.
I have come to believe that the worst homophobes are usually closeted gay people.
if you are gay and have internalized homophobia, you and people like you are some of the most virulent means to spread homophobia
I have come to believe the worst homophobic homosexuals are Christians convinced that they will go to hell for all eternity if they admit they are gay. I have come to believe the most warped homophobic homosexual Christians are Catholics because the Catholic Church aids and abets child molester priests while persecuting homosexual priests, so real world evidence supports a conclusion that God will forgive child molesters but not homosexuals.
Why planet Earth has ALLOWED the church to openly aid, abet and cover up such heinous crimes and ALLOWED the POPE to have final say in this I don't know nor understand.
He has an inherent conflict of interest, probably several. At a minimum, he wants to save face for his organization and minimize the harm to its public reputation but also if a high enough percentage of priests are child molesters and he defrocks and fires them, it potentially begins to dismantle the Catholic Church as he may have no hope of replacing that many priests and would have to shut down a lot of churches.
I have come to believe that whatever the hell Trump is up to, he's dust in the wind and will either be out of office in less than four years or die of old age anywhere between twenty years from now and some time this year but the child raping homophobic religion of Christianity goes back 2000 years and has according to the Internet 2.3 BILLION adherents. And actively encourages self hatred and the existence of homophobic homosexuals who will do ANYTHING to convince themselves they will not burn in hell for all eternity, no matter how depraved.
If you are pro LGBTQ rights, I think the SINGLE most important thing you can work on is putting child molester priests (preachers, Rabbis, etc) in prison for their crimes.
No I can't possibly prove any of that. The piece is titled "Opinion" for a reason.
No, I don't expect anyone to take me seriously nor do anything about it.
But just like only YOU can choose to be closeted, only I can choose to be silenced. And I choose not to be.