Reply #11: I've always believed sexual preference is hard-wired. [View All]

[ninkasi]

I don't think it's a choice, any more than height, race, eye color, or any other feature you're born with. Tahiti Nut is right, the ones who so loudly oppose being gay are really just using that as an excuse to hate.

When my younger kids were teen-agers, 20 years ago, one of our dear friends, who was my daughter's age, struggled with accepting his orientation. Believe me, the agony that this kid suffered by being gay in a very conservative school district in Texas is nothing anybody would go through by choice.

Today, he and his partner have been together many years, have a beautiful home, and many loving friends. My children and I still stay in close touch with him. He's happy today, but the struggle he went through is not anything somebody decides to do on a whim.

Let the fundies, and narrow minded, spiteful conservatives, tend to their own lives and leave the rest of us alone!