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News and commentary about the anti-gay lobbyOctober 19th, 2010
I’m continually aggravated by the right-wing line that there’s no such thing as homosexuality or a homosexual — there’s just homosexual behavior. Recently Ken Buck, the Colorado Republican candidate for US Senate, offered a variation of that on Meet the Press with David Gregory:
GREGORY: In a debate last month, you expressed your support for “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and you alluded to lifestyle choices. Do you believe that being gay is a choice?
BUCK: I do.
GREGORY: Based on what?
BUCK: Based on what? I guess you can choose who your partner is.
Newflash for Ken Buck: Being able to choose your partner doesn’t mean you’re able to choose your sexuality.
Case in point: Back in college I had sex with women three times. And I was a homosexual every time.
(In fact, if those women found this out, they’d probably nod their heads and say, “That would explain a lot.” Though I doubt they remember those few, few minutes of their college education anymore.)
Seriously, Mr. Buck. A man can choose all the female partners he wants, but if he spends every encounter thinking about Jake Gyllenhaal’s furry legs…he’s still a homosexual.
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Jim Burroway
October 19th, 2010
It’s a good thing you saved Jake Gyllenhaal’s furry legs until the end of the post. If you had led off with that I wouldn’t have made it through.
Jeff M.
October 19th, 2010
Jake… furry legs… umm.. gulp. Excuse me for a moment, I need some private time.
Ray
October 19th, 2010
…or Matt Dillon’s (James Arness) cowboy chaps. Whew!
Greg
October 19th, 2010
Many of my high school friends have been officially notified of my sexual orientation 20 years later through Facebook. All of them have been extremely supportive. The one girl with whom I went to one dance sent me a PM–“Well, that explains a lot!” I don’t think we even got beyond an awkward hug and peck on the cheek. Unfortunately, my big crush was on her terminally straight older brother.
Everett
October 19th, 2010
Don’t you just despise thoughtless (heterosexual) folks like Buck!
lurker
October 19th, 2010
“Many of my high school friends have been officially notified of my sexual orientation 20 years later”
Many of my friends knew my sexual orientation before I did!
Sarah
October 20th, 2010
Jim and Jeff-
Thanks for my first good laugh of the day. And, as usual, I will apologize for all of the stupid straight people in the world. As I’m sure most people here know, we’re not all too stupid to reason appropriately.
justsearching
October 20th, 2010
Seeing Gyllenhaal’s legs on Google image took the flavor out of the food I was, but now am not, eating. :|
lew
October 20th, 2010
All the brouhaha about whether being gay is a choice! What if it were? Shouldn’t we have that freedom? The powers that be in the gay political world decided that we should go this route, and I’m as sure as one can be that gayness is NOT a choice. But what if it were… we are supposedly free in this country to choose our way of life.
R
October 20th, 2010
I have yet to see someone who says that earnestly (ie is not a self-hater who identifies as ex-gay) enter into a committed relationship with someone of the same sex that is of the same caliber emotionally or sexually for them as a relationship between orientation compatible people.
I’m a happily married lesbian. I dated a man for almost five years. The relationship was not of the same caliber as a relationship between two straight people. It just wasn’t. I didn’t have a sexual-emotional attraction to him, and that deteriorated the quality of our relationship.
Saying that gays should just be in relationships with people of the opposite sex is like saying “attending a college but only being able to sit in the back row and not being allowed to socialize with other students or really participate in anything beyond sitting in the back row of a lecture is equivalent to attending the college as a normal student.” It’s not, you may get it to be able to look the same, but it’s fundamentally inferior.
Timothy (TRiG)
October 20th, 2010
I agree with lew and Greta Christina. Let’s say sexuality is a choice. So what? It doesn’t hurt anyone. It’s my choice to make.
For the record, it isn’t a choice.
TRiG.
Richard Rush
October 20th, 2010
While I agree with the principle that it should not matter if being gay is a choice, the political reality is that it matters very much to parents who think their kids could be influenced to choose being gay. All the TV ads leading up to voter referendums, such as Prop8, are all about exploiting this fear.
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