i don't care if being gay is a choice or not. I don't care if you woke up and selected the 'gay' option cause you wanted to be edgy, or if it's genetic, or caused by aliens implanting gayness or from being molested as a kid, literally any reason is fine because being gay is fine
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If someone has some controversial, nonharmful preference, "how did you get that preference" shouldn't be relevant. If it is, it means we're viewing the preference as an unfortunate mistake that we only accept when we see the person as a sufficiently helpless victim.
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I don’t quite get the homophobia on the right. I suspect three underlying causes:
- inborn disgust reaction (adaptive due to higher risk of infections?)
- gay hedonism goes against family values
- gays suspected of underlying pederasty
But still don’t get the intense hate.
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i used to be real anti-gay, pro conversion camps, etc.
for me (and my culture) as far as I can tell it was bible based + disgust reaction, where the disgust reaction allowed greater amplification and focus on certain bible verses
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Well, it's fine to not care, but I think is fundamental to the progress of our species to try to understand the mechanisms by which human preference and behavior develops, especially in such an important case. It's not that its moral status could change; it's clearly fine...
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Adopting an idealistic, fundamentally political sexual identity is not “fine”. This applies to so-called straight people as well. A value hierarchy of sexual behavior would be far better than the current mess, which primarily serves political power accumulation.
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I have been known to have a sandwich with cathedral city and Brussels pate in it, I don’t think this is natural behaviour I’m not sure whether I was born to be like this and whilst it can’t directly be cited as causing harm to anyone but myself. I think I should feel ashamed