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Originally Posted by SerenityLives
I just want to say one thing. I’m sad we pushed XCK away. It seems she spent a lot of time to write her last response.
Secondly, something needs to be changed. Last time, I posted my testimony on here, it also got delegated to Alt views because of just one component- the lgbtq component. I dont know about you all, but when we (the younger generation) have our testimonies thrown below grounds, it’s an insult and makes us not want to share our testimonies in the first place on here.
I guess the best strategy then would just post our testimony and then leave and not reply to any rebuttals. But that doesnt seem right either.
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I'm sad too. I'm going to take a specific stance regarding the rest of your post here that you may or may not agree with.
If someone comes and posts their testimony and experiences, and that testimony includes the fact that they are LGBTQ and includes the way they were treated in the LC for being LGBTQ, I see absolutely no reason why that post and thread should be moved. It should stay on the main forum. To move a thread like that only sends the same message the LGBTQ person has probably gotten already - we don't want you here - which is a horrible message to send, and the wrong one.
However, due to the personal beliefs of the owner of this forum, I can understand having the threads on the
topic of LGBTQ on the Alt-views section. If someone believes that same sex actions are a sin, I can understand their not wanting posts in affirmation of that sin on the main forum. In that case, I would hope that just the LGBTQ defense/offense posts were moved, and not the entire thread where the LGBTQ person introduced themselves.
Having said that, I'm not necessarily set in stone on that either. It's all stuff that various people leaving the LC might have to wrestle with or may never have been able to talk about, so why separate it out? But I do agree that something needs to change in the way we welcome new people, no matter what they believe or are.