I hate reading every multi quoted message ever created so I'll only do it once.
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Difference of opinion. I believe that yes you can choose that.
A rapidly shrinking number of people???? In what world? You think the large majority of Americans are fully accepting of homosexuality as a lifestyle? I would beg to differ on that.
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No. You're trying to say I subscribe to your premise that gay is a lifestyle choice first of all, which I dont. And second, I said that a rapidly shrinking number of people believe that homosexuality is a choice. That is to say, they also are coming to realise the very premise is faulty and everything crumbles without it.
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I in fact know personally of four people that are in homosexual relationships that previously were in heterosexual relationships (not a great sampling I know, but it's personal to me and therefore relevant to me). They consider themselves to be homosexual at this time. They made a choice, they clearly did. Look at Anne Heche, she made the choice on both sides. Was she a straight woman just playing gay with Ellen DeGeneres? Is she now really a gay woman just playing heterosexual with her husband and kids?
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They realised they were homosexuals. Very common. And in the case of Anne Heche, she was a straight woman who thought she was gay, but realised she was wrong. You laid it out basically right but missed the obvious conclusion.
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Does this mean all gay people have done it by choice? Of course not. However, again, you cannot choose to be black. You either are or are not. Those classes and arguments for racism vs lifestyle inequality are completely different.
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The premise that you rely on, that gay is a lifestyle choice, is what your (I say "your" meaning the overall argument) argument is hinged on, or depends on.. Like I said before, it's simply incorrect and it's a shrinking position as more people become aware of it.
The reason racism is a valid analogy is exactly because one can't change their true sexuality any more than a person can change their skin color. Just choose not to be black sort of fails right? It's the same thing and it's not a matter of belief, it's just a matter of accepting facts at the end of the day.
If I jam my hand in fire, yes I'm choosing to remove my hand because "something just wasn't right about that on second thought".
Anyway yeah, I'm fine having a different opinion. The handwriting has been on the wall for decades on this one though. But of course alot of people don't vote on math or science. It's pretty weak of lawmakers to say "traditional definition of marriage" though. How about the "traditional definition of property" when it came to abolishing slavery, or the "traditional definition of voting" when it came to allowing women to vote.. this one is really so easy to see coming. Just saying.