New way of looking at things
Apr. 21st, 2005 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neebsI am of the personal belief that your sexual orientation is an inherent part of your genetic make-up, and you can't "choose" to be straight or gay, the same way that your skin color is part of your genetic make-up and you can't choose to be black or white. Many people have an issue with that. Yesterday, I heard a new way of looking at things, and I think it might be a better way of trying to explain why I believe gays should have the same rights as straights. (Mostly marriage stuff.)
This new way compared sexual orientation to religion, which means you have a "choice" to be straight or gay, same as you choose to be Methodist or Jewish or Buddhist. (Again, not my personal belief.) Now, who would support discriminating against people because of their religion? No one I know. (Aside from the new pope, but that's neither here nor there right now. Catholics are weird anyway. No offense.) We don't make laws saying "oh, you're Protestant/Catholic/Islamic/agnostic/atheist? Well you can't get married."
The argument against this might be the whole Mormon thing, where we don't allow them to marry more than one woman. I don't really think the gay community would have issues being limited to choosing one partner. That's the whole argument.
Anyway, I thought this was an interesting way of looking at things and helping to create equal rights for everyone.
This new way compared sexual orientation to religion, which means you have a "choice" to be straight or gay, same as you choose to be Methodist or Jewish or Buddhist. (Again, not my personal belief.) Now, who would support discriminating against people because of their religion? No one I know. (Aside from the new pope, but that's neither here nor there right now. Catholics are weird anyway. No offense.) We don't make laws saying "oh, you're Protestant/Catholic/Islamic/agnostic/atheist? Well you can't get married."
The argument against this might be the whole Mormon thing, where we don't allow them to marry more than one woman. I don't really think the gay community would have issues being limited to choosing one partner. That's the whole argument.
Anyway, I thought this was an interesting way of looking at things and helping to create equal rights for everyone.
