This is getting pretty ridiculous. If we're going to purge our nation's history of people who held beliefs we disagree with today, we're going to end up purging everyone.
A good example is MLK. Civil rights leader and US icon. MLK also held very anti-LGBT views, which are captured in a letter he wrote a young man who said he was attracted to men.[1]
Are we going to start tearing down his statues too? And renaming roads?
"Your problem is not at all an uncommon one. However, it does require careful attention. The type of feeling that you have toward boys is probably not an innate tendency, but something that has been culturally acquired....You are already on the right road toward a solution, since you honestly recognize the problem and have a desire to solve it."
A good example is MLK. Civil rights leader and US icon. MLK also held very anti-LGBT views, which are captured in a letter he wrote a young man who said he was attracted to men.[1]
Are we going to start tearing down his statues too? And renaming roads?
"Your problem is not at all an uncommon one. However, it does require careful attention. The type of feeling that you have toward boys is probably not an innate tendency, but something that has been culturally acquired....You are already on the right road toward a solution, since you honestly recognize the problem and have a desire to solve it."
[1]https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/adv...