northshoredad By Brian Dann
If you were given a choice to be straight or to be gay, what would you choose? For arguments sake, let’s forget about the debate for a minute of whether homosexuality is a choice or not. Just think about the question. Assume for a moment that you actually could choose. I’m not talking about choosing whether you would have sex with a person of the same sex as you. You could do that regardless if you are gay or not. I’m talking about making a choice to love, have feelings, a relationship with a same sex partner just as you would with an opposite sex partner. Think about all the implications surrounding that decision, if it was truly possible to choose one lifestyle over the other, and the implications it would have not only on your life but on the friends and family around you as well. Forget for a moment about your own personal feelings and prejudices or lack thereof about homosexuality and just focus on society and how your life would be depending on which choice you would make…Seriously think about that.
Now, let me ask all of the straight people a question. When was it that you chose to be straight? You see, you cannot answer that, can you? For me I just knew that my seventh grade English teacher was “I’m hot for teacher” hot and I would have gladly given up my new Atari Pong console to get into her skirt! I never thought about it, never made a choice between her and my gym teacher, never questioned which sex I preferred, I just always knew. And that’s the answer to the debate. You just know. Sure maybe some people are confused, they question what they feel, maybe they even experiment just to confirm one way or another what their feelings tell them, but the bottom line is at some point we all just know. If you still doubt me, think about for a moment what homosexuals in this country have to endure just to be who they are. Their lifestyle is continuously ridiculed, questioned and spat upon by members of society that claim the religious higher ground. They are demonized by homophobes too intolerant of others and too insecure with their own masculinity or femininity to accept those different than they are. They are made victims of hate crimes, beatings, and social network bullying to the point that they commit suicide. They are shunned by parents who can’t love their children unconditionally, by politicians who say they can’t marry, and they are forced to hide who they truly are from a military who won’t ask, and who says don’t tell, because if they do they will be treated like a criminal, and discharged dishonorably. So, if you could choose, if your choice was not predetermined for you, which choice would you make? The bottom line is you can’t choose. And even if parents dress their boys up like girls, have them play with dolls, and force them to watch Liza Minnelli videos, they will never turn a straight kid gay or turn a gay kid straight. The bottom line is there is no debate, there is no choice. We are who we are and nothing can change that, and anyone who believes different is just plain wrong. Our sexual preference is something that is ingrained in all of us from birth, just as is our eye color, our skin color, and our desire to watch Glee.
On Thursday, President Obama, during a town hall style meeting with college students said, when asked by one student whether he thought homosexuality was a choice or not, “I don’t think it’s a choice. I think people are born with a certain make-up. We’re all children of G-d… We don’t make determinations about who we love. That’s why I think discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is wrong.” WAIT! (Screeching tires…Record player scratch!) Did I hear that right? What was that he just said? Did the President of the United States just come out and publicly state that he thinks homosexuality is not a choice? Holy S#!t! I hope you can grasp how huge this is. This is “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!” huge. This is Regan saying…(To Read More Click Here)
