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.”


I’m guessing religion.
Leviticus 18:22:
Leviticus 20:13:
Jude 1:7
Referencing:
Genesis 19
Genesis 19:5–8
And:
Genesis 19:12–13
And:
Genesis 19:24–25:
Romans 1:26–28
1 Corinthians 6:9–10
Oh, well, if a 2,000 year old book written by people who couldn’t even get decent lube says so then who am I to argue.
Most of that is just Sodom and Gomorrah. God has more to say about what to do with slaves and how to treat them compared to sexual relations between two people.
Iirc that might have been mistranslated and it actually meant don’t rape male children.
Religion is the excuse, not the cause. There’s a fair number of religious institutions which are queer friendly or at least queer-indifferent. You gravitate towards the religious group that echoes your own biases. Those biases aren’t imbued by some supernatural force. They’re the result of material incentives and social divides that demagogues exploit when they fashion a religious doctrine.