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I saw this story come up yesterday on the Yahoo page and did a search and came up with this: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertai...gay-by-choice/ Cynthia Nixon considers herself gay by choice having been involved with both men and women in the past. She has upset the gay community with this and they seem to feel that she is wrong to have her own feelings and claim them in a public way since it works against their agenda.
I saw this story come up yesterday on the Yahoo page and did a search and came up with this: Cynthia Nixon: Gay by Choice? - ABC News Cynthia Nixon considers herself gay by choice having been involved with both men and women in the past. She has upset the gay community with this and they seem to feel that she is wrong to have her own feelings and claim them in a public way since it works against their agenda.
No. She has admitted she is bi-sexual, not gay. She chooses to call herself gay because bi-sexuals "get no respect".
Her story is the very definition of bi-sexual, not homosexual.
It's the religious anti-gay crusaders who are trying to cherry pick and misuse what she says to try to push the "homosexuality is a choice" nonsense.
"I think for gay people who feel 100 percent gay, it doesn’t make any sense. And for straight people who feel 100 percent straight, it doesn’t make any sense. I don’t pull out the “bisexual” word because nobody likes the bisexuals. Everybody likes to dump on the bisexuals.
But it is the “B” in LGBT.
CN: I know. But we get no respect.
You just said “we,” so you must self-identify as one.
I just don’t like to pull out that word. But I do completely feel that when I was in relationships with men, I was in love and in lust with those men. And then I met Christine and I fell in love and lust with her. I am completely the same person and I was not walking around in some kind of fog. I just responded to the people in front of me the way I truly felt."
To answer your original question -
It sends the far-right anti-gay Christians over the moon, because if gays can 'choose' to be gay, they can be made to 'un-choose'... which means they were right; a lot of Christian proselytizing and a rubber band around their wrist to snap every time they have a gay inclination, and gays can be "cured". Poof, no more gays! oh, wait - no "poof", too gay - how about "taa-daa!" ?
Seriously, 'chooses' gay because 'nobody likes bi-sexuals'? So, what, everyone gives gay people hugs, teddy bears and warm blankies?
Seems to me like someone is more interested in how other people view her than in her own reality. I honestly don't understand why anyone, except someone desperately seeking attention, would make such a big deal out of it. Drama. Queen.
"While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.
"As I said in the Times and will say again here, I do, however, believe that most members of our community — as well as the majority of heterosexuals — cannot and do not choose the gender of the persons with whom they seek to have intimate relationships because, unlike me, they are only attracted to one sex.
It doesn't matter whether it is a choice or not. Not to mention that sexual orientation isn't on a three pronged scale. It's not straight, bi, or gay. Sexual preferences can move anywhere along that scale.
The only thing that doesn't change is that people are still humans that deserve the same rights as others. Beliefs are to be kept in the house, without affecting others. Simply being gay doesn't violate anyone's beliefs, no matter how ignorant or brainwashed they are.
To answer your original question -
It sends the far-right anti-gay Christians over the moon, because if gays can 'choose' to be gay, they can be made to 'un-choose'... which means they were right
Only about it being a choice, not about it being wrong. I think that's the point of the question.
I agree with Aganusn. It makes no difference if someone chooses their sexuality. The only judgement that matters is harmfulness vs. benefit or neutrality.
It doesn't matter whether it is a choice or not. Not to mention that sexual orientation isn't on a three pronged scale. It's not straight, bi, or gay. Sexual preferences can move anywhere along that scale.
The only thing that doesn't change is that people are still humans that deserve the same rights as others. Beliefs are to be kept in the house, without affecting others. Simply being gay doesn't violate anyone's beliefs, no matter how ignorant or brainwashed they are.
I also fail to see what difference there is--whether one is choosing to be X or born as X; they are still who they are. I happen to belive we are able to decide for ourselves who and what we are and that in now way trivializes our personality or lifestyle.
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