Just as a warning, I will be mentioning some homophobic things I've heard in conversations with JWs
I've been PIMO for a little under a year now, and I have noticed more and more that JWs are super homophobic. I know this is probably not surprising at all, but it just boils my blood, and I need to talk about it. I am gay, btw, so these things hit extra hard. Anyway, here are some things I've heard from JWs that made me so mad and upset that I felt the need to rant about it on Reddit.
This one was from a time my mom and a brother were talking. He said, "gay people don't even want to get married, they just want an excuse to do their disgusting acts". I was just standing to the side listening to this, and I genuinely felt sick. It pisses me off that they think queer people can't fall in love. Also, this is the same brother who said he can't get a girlfriend because he immediately loses interest as soon as she changes something about her appearance, like hair color. And then he wants to say that queer people are just horny and lustful. He's a fucking hypocrite.
I was passing the mic around this day, and this one brother in particular started talking about how it seems like everyone is coming out these days. He said, "There are so many people who are coming out of the closet, as they say, that now we are the ones who want to go into the closet to get away from them". Clearly, he doesn't even understand what being in the closet even means. I wonder how he would feel if he knew that the person giving him that fucking mic was a closeted gay teen. I genuinely wanted to just walk away with the mic mid-comment, cause I was so pissed. I've never seen that brother the same again (honestly, I never liked him to begin with, but this solidified my feelings).
This one is more just the energy of the conversation. I was at an assembly, and one of the speakers started talking about homosexuality, and he genuinely looked so angry and disgusted when he was talking about gay people. I'm not sure I can accurately describe how much hate radiated from his speech, but it made me so uncomfortable that I had to get up and go to the bathroom to calm down.
This one hurt the most because it was the most hateful of them all, and it also came from my own mother. I was sitting at the dining table, and my mom and dad were talking. My dad sort of randomly brings up that gay people in some country (I can't remember which one it was) are publicly executed. My mom said, "That's what they should do with all of them". I just sat there in shock. I honestly could not understand how my mom could hate queer people so much to the point of thinking they should all be killed. My dad (not JW) told her not to say that. I got up and left. I didn't mention this, but my mom actually knew that I was attracted to men at this point (she just thinks I didn't wanna act on it, so she doesn't label me as gay in her head).
I'm pointing these things out because it is not true that JWs love the "sinner" but hate the "sin". They are homophobic bigots. And yes, I understand that not all JWs would say these things, but basically none of them deny the super homophobic comments. Not to mention the Borg claims they don't support homophobia, but didn't do a single fucking thing to stop homophobia in congregations; in fact, they just perpetuate it.
Anyway, sorry if this post wasn't very uplifting, but I needed to get this off my chest😭😭. Just know that if you're a closeted queer and/or trans JW, I see you and I hope we can get out of this soon ❤️🫶🏻