"I don't suppose she imagined that a lot of said virtuous college kids' were already tanning their toned little butts down in the gay section", says Carl. "And likely doing other stuff as well while in the neighbourhood."
"Bernice, Dad, that whole class of ministers all had one thing in common. Their tunnel vision. Pro-life, or anti-choice, anti-queer, anyone with a same sex attraction was at best considered broken or damaged and at worst, a prime candidate for the Lake of Fire, and they were anti-women, and women were expected to shut up and submit to their husbands and simply be exemplary mothers and homemakers, children were to have the Ten Commandments beaten into them, every morning by mother, then again every night by father, and they were anti-labour, anti-environment. And they hated any free self-expression. They were a complete embarrassment."
"Your father was that bad?" says Frank.
"He was an Anglican. He felt theologically compatible with those people, but never really spoke about their embarrassing right wing dogmas. But he also found them, Bernice anyway, to be pretty extreme and rather embarrassing."
""I remember reading about her when she was on City Council and how she really had it in for gay people. She must have been a dyke", says Carl.
"Point taken", says Francois. "Anyway, what did you guys get up to today?"
"My mom and her friends are in hospital with severe covid and I bought that house in New West..."
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