Post by Rev. Jim Cunningham on Nov 21, 2012 10:15:52 GMT -5
I made this post on Yahoo! News in response to an article questioning whether homosexuality is a choice:
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The word "choice" is deceptive. You have a CHOICE to do evil and rob a bank or to do good and not to rob a bank - but that is NOT the type "choice" the heterosexual/homosexual debate refers to. "CHOICE" in this case refers specifically to PREFERENCE. In other words, when they ask if being gay is a choice, what they are asking is, "Are homosexuals merely heterosexuals who engage in same-gender sexual activity?"
The problem is that heterosexuals are under the impression that homosexuals are merely perverted heterosexuals, that gay men are really straight men who willfully pervert themselves to engage with other men.
ABSURD. To imply preference a man must be attracted to BOTH genders in order to PREFER one over the other.
Offer me a piece of white cake and a piece of chocolate cake. I hate chocolate cake and therefore I will only take the white cake. I do not PREFER the white cake over chocolate cake because I NEVER LIKED CHOCOLATE CAKE IN THE FIRST PLACE. There is no option, no choice. I would no sooner eat a piece of chocolate cake than I would eat a handful of dirt.
Now, YOU may absolutely love chocolate cake and hate white cake. You didn't choose to love chocolate cake any more than I chose to hate chocolate cake, and you didn't choose to hate white cake any more than I chose to love white cake. It is just WHO WE ARE. And there's nothing wrong with either of us.
There are other people who like white cake just like you do, but once in a while they sample the chocolate cake.
The problem only starts when you white cake lovers arrogantly and selfishly presume that there is something wrong with me for not liking what you like, and then you attack me and try to deprive me of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But that makes YOU the lunatic because you think that you are entitled to force me to like chocolate cake (which is impossible) or punish me if I don't.
There are some chocolate cake haters who are afraid of you white cake eaters because of your bullying, and so they partake of the hated chocolate cake and pretend to enjoy it to attempt to escape your abuse, giving up their own happiness to make you happy - when in fact YOU are the evil one who doesn't deserve happiness.
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The word "choice" is deceptive. You have a CHOICE to do evil and rob a bank or to do good and not to rob a bank - but that is NOT the type "choice" the heterosexual/homosexual debate refers to. "CHOICE" in this case refers specifically to PREFERENCE. In other words, when they ask if being gay is a choice, what they are asking is, "Are homosexuals merely heterosexuals who engage in same-gender sexual activity?"
The problem is that heterosexuals are under the impression that homosexuals are merely perverted heterosexuals, that gay men are really straight men who willfully pervert themselves to engage with other men.
ABSURD. To imply preference a man must be attracted to BOTH genders in order to PREFER one over the other.
Offer me a piece of white cake and a piece of chocolate cake. I hate chocolate cake and therefore I will only take the white cake. I do not PREFER the white cake over chocolate cake because I NEVER LIKED CHOCOLATE CAKE IN THE FIRST PLACE. There is no option, no choice. I would no sooner eat a piece of chocolate cake than I would eat a handful of dirt.
Now, YOU may absolutely love chocolate cake and hate white cake. You didn't choose to love chocolate cake any more than I chose to hate chocolate cake, and you didn't choose to hate white cake any more than I chose to love white cake. It is just WHO WE ARE. And there's nothing wrong with either of us.
There are other people who like white cake just like you do, but once in a while they sample the chocolate cake.
The problem only starts when you white cake lovers arrogantly and selfishly presume that there is something wrong with me for not liking what you like, and then you attack me and try to deprive me of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But that makes YOU the lunatic because you think that you are entitled to force me to like chocolate cake (which is impossible) or punish me if I don't.
There are some chocolate cake haters who are afraid of you white cake eaters because of your bullying, and so they partake of the hated chocolate cake and pretend to enjoy it to attempt to escape your abuse, giving up their own happiness to make you happy - when in fact YOU are the evil one who doesn't deserve happiness.