So What If It Is A Choice?

An interesting read indeed. Andrew Sullivan, a contributor to The Atlantic, writes in "The Daily Dish" about why WOULDN'T anyone choose to be what they want to be? A captivating idea, but I'm not sure if I exactly like the of playing with nature versus nurture.

The piece below.

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12 Dec 2008 03:43 pm
So What If It Is A Choice?
by Chris Bodenner

In response to Huckabee and Stewart sparring over gay marriage, Ta-Nehisi writes:

The case for/against gay marriage is hung-up on this idea of choice--i.e. we should frown on gay marriage because it's a deviant lifestyle. Or we shouldn't frown on it because it isn't a lifestyle, it's a biological fact. This is where the comparisons with race come in. But I always hated this argument. Whenever people say, "You should not discriminate against people because they didn't chose to be black," I hear the mild tones of wild liberal condescension.

Implicit in that logic is a kind of judgment, the notion that if I could choose, I obviously would choose to be white. But what if I just like being black? What if I could choose and would still choose black? Ditto for homosexuality. So what if you do choose to be gay? I understand that a lot of the science says you don't, but why do we accept this implicit idea that heterosexuality is, necessarily, what everyone would chose?

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