"...why would you do that?"

" - so your folks don't kick you out or so you don't go to Hell or whatever -"

"...the place the terraformers come from? Wait, why would your parents kick you out?"

"...for being gay. Uh, not that Hell, some people think that you get an afterlife when you die if you're not resurrected and if you fucked men then you get tortured forever."

"Is this about the voting thing?" asks a purple in confusion.

"No," says Cahmro, and, "how would kicking your kid out help with that exactly?"

"No, no, not at all, it's about a religion on my homeworld - and yeah, it's not cool doing that, I don't know what people are thinking - I sorta do actually but maybe we shouldn't get into it now -"

"Jeez, I was all, hey mom and dad I sprang way sideways, and they were like, oh, so did the boy at the shoe store with the ear piercings says my ballgame-watching friend, and I was like, ew, piercings, maybe if I can't find anybody on Sideways looking all day long."

" - well I guess maybe lots of dudes in musical theatre will move to Calado."

"That's not even a Calado thing. Well, Sideways is, I think other places you have to get some other app."

"Maybe Amenta in general will be popular - things are better now, it's not illegal anymore, but -"

"It usedta be illegal? Yeesh."

"Oh, they'd kill you someplaces. Not in America, because we believe in freedom, but yeah."

"To stop you from actually fucking any dudes so you wouldn't get tortured?"

" - I think that's the idea yeah."

"...okay..."

"I guess it'd be right if they were right about the torture but far as we can tell when you die nothing happens till you get resurrected."

"Yeah. Where'd they even get an idea like that?"

"Jesus, except he didn't actually say much about that, it was more people interpreting."

"Seems kind of irresponsible to make that kinda thing up."

"I guess. It had some good stuff - like, most of it was good stuff, love your neighbor and be faithful to your wife and have faith in God and work hard and there'll be something good waiting for you on the other side - but there were also a lot of wars over it so who knows really. Maybe Jesus when we resurrect him but we haven't yet because it's really controversial."

"That all sounds real bizarre, gotta tell you."

"You've got the caste system and the pollution thing so we're even."

"But what the heck business of Jesus's is it if you have extra on the side, if your wife doesn't care?"

"- Might have kids with someone else and then you're a deadbeat dad. I really don't know why the bit about gay people, Jesus didn't actually say much about gay people."

"Sounds like a mess." Ballots. New neighborhood.