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So here's the thing that weirds me out most about fundamentalist/evangelical Christianity, as seen through the lens of A) my terrible fundamentalist Christian aunt, B) my evangelical high school friends, and C) everything I read about it on social media:
They seem to have ZERO faith in the power of their own message.
They object to anything else being taught in schools. No LGBTQ mentions, abstinence-only education, no teaching about evolution, etc. They object to units on world religion.
Like, if you believe that merely the knowledge that other ways of being EXIST is enough to make most people choose something other than your way, I can't really imagine why you'd hold to it.
And, I mean, forbidding even knowledge/curiosity about something just makes it more compelling--this is like Human Psychology 101.
(Like, when I went off to college, a lot of my friends who hadn't been allowed to even try alcohol jumped right into binge-drinking. My parents had let me have wine in high school, and let me try a sip of cocktails if I was curious, so there was no mystery for me.)
And, I dunno, they must be doing SOMETHING right because there sure are a lot of them, but if you're so worried that knowing that gay people exist is going to make your kid not evangelical, I dunno how you think they're going to stay that way in adulthood.
