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First, this article from Autostraddle, Colleges find that being Christian doesn't make you not gay, which reads in part:

...the lives and struggles of these kids prove that this isn’t about religion, or the Bible, or God. This is about power. The adults who run these schools aren’t better Christians or better people than their students; the kids who attend schools like Harding and Baylor – even the gay ones! – chose to go to a religious school over all their other options, presumably because pursuing a life of faith and spiritual commitment is important to them. They’re not dumb and they’re not naive; they know their Scripture, they know their values, and they know their religion. They also know there’s nothing wrong with them. So it seems like it stands to reason that the people who do still harbor the belief that there’s anything sinful or shameful about being gay aren’t coming from a place of God-given inspiration; they’re coming from a place of fear and a need to control. If today’s generation of queer kids in religious communities can realize this through stories like Adam and Samantha’s, then that might be the most important thing of all.

Second, this livestream by Darren Criss. Who is quite possibly a magical being from another universe made of unicorns and rainbows. idek. It's over an hour long, the phone call portions are pretty high on the embarrassment squick meter, but the rest of it is amazing:



and third, this Out interview with Thomas Dekker (who played John Connor on Sarah Connor Chronicles), in which he doesn't seem worried about labels:

Sexuality doesn’t seem to bother Dekker much either. Unlike most young actors who have rumors about their sexuality dogging them, when he speaks of himself in a way that isn’t particularly conclusive it comes off as neither pandering nor evasive. “I’ve only really had relationships with women, but I’m certainly not closed to it. If there are possibilities of being able to do anything in life, why would you say you would never take any up? In the later chunk of my teen years I was so all over the place with sex. It was terrible. I never really had a real relationship at all. During puberty, it’s all about sex, and it’s all about figuring yourself out. I think I overdid it when I was younger.”

Now when I read about the pontificating conservatives spewing their hate everywhere, I just think about how utterly irrelevant they seem in the face of the younger generations. It's unfortunate that they are still with us, on our TVs, in our Congress, but their message is getting more and more meaningless--which is why they have to shout it louder and with more force--and in the great scheme of things (time being relative, after all), I really do have hope that the message will disappear from our halls of government soon, and be relegated to fringes and history books.