I’m not going to say that it’s impossible for heterosexual people to understand what homosexual people have to go through. It’s true, and it’s true about anybody who’s trying to understand someone other than himself. But if you have ever felt like an outsider, if you have ever felt that you have been treated unjustly, or if you have ever been bullied for no reason other than that you’re too short/tall/fat/thin/smart/stupid, then you know what it might be like. And then imagine that mommy and daddy, instead of telling you that you’re beautiful anyway and you should ignore other people, tell you that it’s your choice that you had to go through that. Or maybe you won’t hear that, because you’re so frightened of what they may say and so afraid of losing their love, that you don’t even tell them about it.
If you say that it’s a choice, then either you’re saying that all gay people are sadistic, or you’re making an argument that makes no sense. Because if it’s a choice, then it should be obvious that no one would choose to be an outcast, that no one would deliberately choose to be gay and risk his life, physically, mentally or socially. It’s not fun, and if it’s a choice between life and death, then it’s not really a choice at all.
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rabbit said,
December 17, 2006 at 11:35 am
Just because something is not a choice doesn’t make it any more desirable, morally correct or acceptable than if it were a choice. Even if it were a choice, it doesn’t mean that we should be treated any differently simply because it makes others uncomfortable.
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