Revised Choice
Posted at 10:17 am on Monday, August 13, 2007, in Uncategorized, and tagged misc.
I have spent a good amount of time this past weekend (probably too much) thinking about my words last Friday on choice. It was honestly the first time I had thoroughly thought about the issue of homosexuality, and I have come to realize that the definition of “choice” that I was using (that came about in the comments) don’t truly reflect my thoughts, or reality.
I was wrong in stating that one person’s sexual orientation is inherently a choice, because that would assume that a person could simply choose not to be a homosexual, and that is not the case. And as a commenter noted, if sexuality is a choice, when did I choose to be heterosexual? (I didn’t.) And also, as a commenter noted, sexual orientation and sexual behavior are two separate things, and I realize that I may have blurred the two in my stated opinion.
I still believe that a person is not born a homosexual, or a heterosexual, for that matter, but that they are born who they are, and live the the live they live. I know that probably sounds goofy, and has more of a ring of some cultist pagan mantra (hell, it may be), and I’m not revising my opinion in hopes for a future political career (that went out the window several years, and several blunts, ago), but the reality is clear: homosexuality is not a choice; and people can not simply choose not to be homosexual, or be taught not to be one either.
(I hope this clarifies my views.)
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August 16th, 2007 at 9:11 am
I thank you for and appreciate your additional thoughtful comments. (You and Gov. Bill Richardson now have something in common.) Your statement that people “are born who they are, and live the life they live” is one of those statements which sounds trite, but contains so much more truth than might be realized at first glance. It’s a shame that we often don’t recognize that and we put so much futile effort into trying to change other people and their behavior.