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Texas governor calls for removal of rainbow crosswalks, calling them a safety issue
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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2025
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So which is it, a safety issue, or a "political ideology" issue?
And since when has a group of people existing been a "political ideology"?
The existence of anyone not straight, white, wealthy and christian has always been political in the USA
The problem is that there pushing their culture onto everyone else.
They know what they're doing. They want to encourage more people to be gay.
If the rainbow crosswalk makes you unsure of your sexuality, that's a you issue. Straight people don't have to make themselves straight, they just are. Straight men don't have to make themselves not want dick. And so long as seeing symbols is forcing culture, I never want to see a cross again, stop shoving your lifestyle down my throat
This is so fucking priceless, it should be in a museum.
Please inform me which part of their culture they are "pushing" on everyone else, that way I can ask you why it's okay for the straights to do it, but nobody else gets to.
LGBTQ people exist. That's something you can never, ever change. So maybe get over it and stop saying that them existing in public is somehow negatively impacting anyone who isn't just a scared little bigot.
Why do you people always bring up existence? Yeah, these people exist whether sidewalks are rainbow-colored or not.
They want rainbow crosswalks and more because they want to encourage more people to be gay.
Why is that bad?
We shouldn't be encouraging people to be gay, straight, or anything else in that regard.
They should have the freedom to be who they want without peer pressure making them something they're not.
And how does the crosswalk make you feel less freemt be straight?
It doesn't work on me because I don't succumb to peer pressure.
Unfortunately, I'm in the minority in this regard.
Lmao ban weather because rainbows make you gay
Again, yeah. Gay people are awesome.
I’ve been super straight my whole hole life, butt after reading your cumment I’m starting to have a staying desire for some meat in my mouth and I’ve been vegetarian for years! Now you got me bouncing on my bois d to this and I couldn’t have done it without you.
I’m gonna need you to look me in the eyes so I can finish.
Colored streets is all it takes huh? Then we’re truly at risk of a birth-pocalypse.
Wait are you implying Greg abbot thinks rainbows make people gay? Or you think rainbows make people gay? If we removed like a color or two would it not be gay? Like take out 3 colors at random and it becomes a national flag. But too many color = gay? Bending light is gay? I guess it ain’t straight cuz it’s bent.
Yeah, it's not the rainbow crosswalk that's making you feel attracted to people the same sex as you. That's something within you that makes you feel that way. And that's fine. If you want to repress those feelings that's a choice you make for yourself.
But we can't structure our society around some people's need to repress their gay feelings.
If people could think for themselves, you'd have a point.
So you want politicians to do the thinking for you?
If giving people judgment free spaces to be themselves makes more people gay then so bit, I’m sorry freedom scares you.
Hell yeah I do. Straight people suck.
Thanks for being honest.
That's more than the rest of these chucklefucks can do.