With societal acceptance of LGBTQ people growing so much in the past few decades, what happens when one member of a heterosexual marriage evolves in their views and the other one stays stuck in the past?For one man who recently vented on Reddit about his homophobic wife, his strategy is simple — don’t back down.
His post has since gone viral, racking up over a thousand (mostly) positive comments of encouragement.As the man tells it, a family conversation about the same-sex kiss between two loving, female characters in the Disney/Pixar film Lightyear sparked a “huge fight” between him and his wife.“My wife was explaining [the kiss scene] to my mom and I and she was huffing and puffing about it ‘not being right’ and ‘not something she wants our kids seeing,” he wrote. “She looked to me for approval and I didn’t give her any.
I just said I don’t care. It doesn’t bother me what other people do and if it’s in a kids movie it’s no big deal.”Related: Redditors rally around guy whose date pulled “the most d*ckish” move everThe man went on to explain that, “She was born and raised in the south by very conservative Christian parents.
Her opinions about homosexuality are it doesn’t matter what someone does with their life as long as she doesn’t have to see it.