It's like choosing to be blind, or choosing to be autistic.
It doesn't make rational sense to any thinking person.
Why choose to be something that is illegal, typically not socially accepted, and will cause you a lifetime of heartache?
You wouldn't. No one would. Gay people are gay because that's the way they are, not because they choose to be.
More pertinently, none of my gay or lesbian friends say that their sexual orientation is a matter of choice. They knew they were same sex attracted when they were only small children aged 5 or so.
All of them have heterosexual siblings with whom they shared the same parents, schooling, social background, cultural background, etc. None of them were abused in any way when they were young, and they don't recall a 'trigger' that 'made' them gay. In their opinion, they were gay since the day they were born, whether they like it or not.
I'm more inclined to believe the testimony of my gay friends than I am likely to listen to the rantings of ignorant heterosexual people who are just trying to guess in their own minds whether or not it's a choice.
It's like choosing to be blind, or choosing to be autistic.
It doesn't make rational sense to any thinking person.
Why choose to be something that is illegal, typically not socially accepted, and will cause you a lifetime of heartache?
You wouldn't. No one would. Gay people are gay because that's the way they are, not because they choose to be.
More pertinently, none of my gay or lesbian friends say that their sexual orientation is a matter of choice. They knew they were same sex attracted when they were only small children aged 5 or so.
All of them have heterosexual siblings with whom they shared the same parents, schooling, social background, cultural background, etc. None of them were abused in any way when they were young, and they don't recall a 'trigger' that 'made' them gay. In their opinion, they were gay since the day they were born, whether they like it or not.
I'm more inclined to believe the testimony of my gay friends than I am likely to listen to the rantings of ignorant heterosexual people who are just trying to guess in their own minds whether or not it's a choice.
If you're not gay, you wouldn't know.
Simple.