Also, just from the picture, I don't think that we know the dad's motivation for posting it with the accompanying message. I don't think that we can safely assume that the dad is an ideologue on the level of those in Westboro Baptist or PETA. For all we know, he could just be a father resolving his own sense of discomfort with homosexuality with his love and his protective paternal instincts for his son.
I think someone posted that with the nefarious intent. I don't know what it is yet, but I can't imagine that an actual parent would have posted a picture of his child with those words. I smell a rat.
Lois
If you smell a rat, perhaps there is one. (I don't know what a rat smell's like.)
But I can imagine a Bubba who has always had underlying homophobic feelings, upon being told by his 7 year old son, that he (the son) is gay, going overboard in his reactions, in trying to relieve the cognitive dissonance of loving his son who, he has just learned, or thinks he has just learned, is gay. (Who knows if the kid is really mature enough to know if he really is gay.) Hence, he (the father) highlights his son's self confidence as his own (the father's) accomplishment, and can then feel okay about his son's "gayness", and yet can still resolve any underlying anger by kicking the ass of anyone who says anything bad about his son.
Just a hypothesis.
No, I can't see a Bubba doing that. History has shown he would fight tooth and nail to deny it, even to the point of putting the kid in military school to "make a man out of him."
The rat I smell is a homophobe who put that picture and text on the Internet thinking it would shame people who are not homophobes because he thinks he is making them look ridiculous. In fact it only makes homophobes look ridiculous, but, of course, homophobes would never understand anything that subtle.
Lois
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