2009-07-06, 12:30 PM
I don't think gay people can help being what they are. Right now, this argument is becoming more of "an argument" because gays ARE free to be gay, and they CAN be openly gay and have a life. In an older time, if the larger society found out that you were gay, you could conceivably be murdered, (in modern-medieval societies such as Iran you still can be, Mahmoud Arminejad said there's "no gays in Iran,") and even if you weren't, your opportunities in society would be limited. Nobody in such a time would CHOOSE to be gay because it would be dangerous and limit your job opportunities. Yet, homosexuality is an ancient thing. Why?
So yeah, NOW this argument has some merit, but think about it, if a person could "choose" to be straight or "choose" to be gay, who would "choose" to be gay when even now it means discrimination to the point where you can get the shiit beaten out of you, and when your partner opportunities are limited to 6% of the population, (rather than 94%,) and when you cannot legally marry your partner and when to work in many jobs you have to hide your identity? Even George Takei, (Sulu in Star Trek,) only revealed his sexual orientation a couple years ago, with his fame and fortune so established that it couldn't hurt him. He said the reason he waited till then was because he knew that being openly homosexual would destroy his career. And all that's in AMERICA. Again, think of less tolerant societies like Iran, and then tell me gays "want to be gay."
There's only a handful of people that "choose" to be gay, and those are called "bisexuals," who have a choice between men and women. Nobody who is born gay would want to go through the awful $hit that being gay entails.
So yeah, NOW this argument has some merit, but think about it, if a person could "choose" to be straight or "choose" to be gay, who would "choose" to be gay when even now it means discrimination to the point where you can get the shiit beaten out of you, and when your partner opportunities are limited to 6% of the population, (rather than 94%,) and when you cannot legally marry your partner and when to work in many jobs you have to hide your identity? Even George Takei, (Sulu in Star Trek,) only revealed his sexual orientation a couple years ago, with his fame and fortune so established that it couldn't hurt him. He said the reason he waited till then was because he knew that being openly homosexual would destroy his career. And all that's in AMERICA. Again, think of less tolerant societies like Iran, and then tell me gays "want to be gay."
There's only a handful of people that "choose" to be gay, and those are called "bisexuals," who have a choice between men and women. Nobody who is born gay would want to go through the awful $hit that being gay entails.