If you think the idea that people choose to be gay would somehow reflect badly on people who'd choose it, then maybe you're the problem here?
Imo it doesn't matter if it's a choice! If we let people make whatever harmful sexual choices they want then this wouldn't be a question
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True, and a lot of people forget the role that culture plays in shaping desire (unless you somehow think that Ancient Greeks were genetically unusual), but the “it’s a choice” narrative is so closely entwined with “and it’s sinful” that that line of inquiry is rather radioactive.
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Agree completely, but not totally weird to care because the immutability of sexual orientation is part of the rationale for majority decision in Obergefell
supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf
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Agree it should be accepted regardless, but the idea that people choose sexuality isn't problematic because progressives think it reflects badly, it's problematic because they know *others* think it reflects badly ("harmful") but might better accept it were it not a choice.
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Good to be suspicious of language hysteria, but when a potential sc justice uses "preference" instead of orientation" there's a legal implication. "Orientation" implies an immutable characteristic, people who have the characteristic deserving equal protection under the law.
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absolutely agree - this argument about whether or not it's a choice is as if we're collectively saying "it's bad, but we'll let you be gay if we can agree that you can't help it." Just let consenting adults choose their own sex partners ffs - the "why" is none of our business.
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Women were the gatekeepers on sex. Men won’t act as checks. Gays being allowed to manifest created a culture of promiscuity, which was spread to women, and has led to the collapse of monogamy, marriage, and family formation. Gay culture has destroyed society
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Americans are weird, preferences aren't choices. I didn't choose to prefer blue cheese to raw tomatoes.
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