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With Gina, I sometimes get the kind of pushback that David Willis gets with Joyce, and I have to respond the same way.

"Hey, Tailsteak, what's with the exaggerated strawman Christian? There aren't any kids growing up Christian who actually believe that, are there?"

*raise hand* Yo.

"I mean, sure, we do those talks in youth groups about how premarital sex means your heart is like a used piece of bubblegum, but no kids are stupid enough to take that literally, let alone allow it to influence them into adulthood, right?"

*raise hand* Yo.

"Well, come on, it's like those anti-drug talks. No one's dumb enough to actually believe the obvious lies about how marijuana will ruin your brain and your life, right?"

*raise hand* Yo.

"Oh, please, it's like the personhood of the unborn. Anyone with half a brain can work out that the human soul beginning at conception is completely untenable as a philosophy and has no real scriptural basis, and you're only supposed to pretend to believe it in order to advance a political agenda, right?"

*raise hand* Yo.

"No, come on, man, it's like Creationism. You all figured out it's not literally true, right?"

*raise hand* Yo.

"...Jesus."

Exactly.

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(Wednesday afternoon, INT: mall food court)

EB: "First kiss at the altar." Are you shitting me. You actually put that in your profile.
GU: I... well... not those exact words, no.
EB: What exact words, Gina?
GU: I... I don't know. I don't remember.
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GU: But, I mean... when you're intimate with someone, you're giving away a piece of yourself to them, right?
MH (not looking up from her phone): Yeah, that's what's awesome about it.
GU: I just want to give all of myself to someone, and have him give all of himself to me. On a permanent basis. I don't think that's unreasonable.
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GU: Although I guess if he'd had a wife who had died, that would be okay too.
NP: Gina, you know we respect your beliefs and your... subculture. But, uh...
MH: -but that's fucking insane and you're going to die alone.
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GU: BWAAAAAHNGHAAAHAAAA!!!
NP: Max!
MH: What? She is!