A Republican candidate for Congress offered up his analysis of human sexuality and gender on Tuesday, in a group interview with South Florida’s Sun-Sentinel editorial board, alongside two other Republicans running to represent House District 20 in Broward County.

“You never see a giraffe, a male giraffe, that mate(s) with a giraffe,” Rod Joseph said. “Myself right now saying, ‘I am a giraffe,’ that doesn’t mean it’s true.”

Everyone is “born straight,” he offered.

The unusual assertion was made in answer to a question about U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) declaration at the beginning of Pride Month, “Homosexuality has no place in America.”

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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    9 days ago

    Shouldn’t there be some law or something to remove people in office who blatantly lie like this? Surely someone with this kind of attitude could not uphold democracy. They are a threat to national security.

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    “You cannot be born gay. That’s impossible biologically,” he added, stating his sureness that sexuality is a preference, not a biological orientation.

    In my limited experience, I have read plenty of anecdotes where someone has this point of view, only to later realise that they’re bisexual.

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      Even if it were true that people aren’t queer by birth, that should make no difference to their rights.

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        My very fundamentalist first boss and I agreed strongly on this, although with opposite conclusions.

        My feeling was whatever one or more consenting adults want to do in private is fine.

        His feeling was if God tells you not to do something that you shouldn’t do it, even if you really want to, even if you were born wanting to.

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      It’s just like those homophobes that talk about how hard it is not to be gay. “Something something constant temptation to have sex with men” and all that. I can say with absolute certainty that I’ve never experienced that temptation. I think you might just be attracted to men my guy.

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    Giraffes are famous for engaging in extensive same-sex behavior. Studies have documented that up to 94% of observed mating-like activity happens between males, often involving intense caressing, “necking” (rubbing necks), and mounting

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    9 days ago

    Meanwhile, Grindr profile views and hookups peak every time there’s a Republican held convention.

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    I love how all these conservatives have medical degrees and specialties. I had no idea that we had so many doctors in the US. Where is our free healthcare if we have such a surplus of ‘expert’ medical professionals???

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      Quite a lot of them are chiropractors, osteopaths and other para-medical “degree” holders. Not to mention the ones who have real medical degrees, but are certified by dodgy boards that they set up themselves, like Rand Paul.

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      8 days ago

      I had a new prank idea just now, I need to get the notification sound and play it in public.

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    Well, yes, I personally have never seen a male giraffe mate with another male giraffe. I’ve never seen a male and a female giraffe mate, either. In fact I’ve never seen a giraffe in the wild at all.

    So I’m gonna take this one step further and say giraffes don’t exist in the wild. Every giraffe that exists lives in zoos because that’s the only place I, personally, have ever seen them. Any evidence to the contrary is fake news.

    Am I Republicaning correctly?

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      Close. You have to make a bold claim that combines those 2 unrelated topics. Something like…“The fact that I have only seen gay giraffes exist while in captivity proves that being gay is unnatural. I’m 100% positive every giraffe outside of Zoos are banging the Lord’s way.”

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        I have never personally witnessed two Floridians having sex. Therefore we can conclude that Floridians don’t procreate and thus Florida can only sustain its population by illegally importing hordes of immigrants. The American federal government should arrest the entire Floridian government to put an end to this.

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    Aren’t giraffes known for being the most gay out of almost all animal species? Or am I thinking of another animal?