That creates hopelessness. It is more loving and compassionate to say you don’t have to be gay for the rest of your lives.

—Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council, who fears repealing DADT will lead to more gay rapists, claiming that being gay is what makes young people want to kill themselves, not the bullying they receive for it [via]

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