Originally Posted by BobbyB
I never once said it was ok. What I said bugged me was that they would say "We can't change ourselves" argument when things like that happen. Learn to read before you attack me again.
*finishes watching season 1 of Reading Rainbow*
OK, now I've learned to read. Bush has given me the OK to attack!
You said you got severely annoyed when gay people complain about being mistreated, followed by BS!, followed by your claim that genes don't play a role in homosexuality. "You have a choice" to be gay, you said. So you basically said right there that it's OK for gays to be mistreated. You're saying that since apparently homosexuality doesn't show up in people because of a gene, it's alright to brush them off if they get abused by someone straight for being who they are. You didn't exactly say it in those words, BUT THAT'S WHAT YOU MEANT.
OMG... you may be the first Movie Forums member to be put on my ignore list. Which is sad because you might just be a Nobel Prize winner since you apparently have evidence that genes don't make people gay.
I realize homosexuality is a confusing issue with some people, but you have to understand that a lot of homosexuals have felt that they've been gay all of their lives. That's why homosexuals want the scientists to search for genetic evidence of same sex attraction in humans. There is a choice in coming out and living with it, and gay people want acceptance from others so that coming out and being gay can be a positive lifelong experience. They want to feel normal, they want to feel like they're living a good life... they're used to being attracted to the same sex, it DOESN'T feel like a choice to be gay. It DOESN'T. There's only the choice of coming out about it and accepting that you're going to have this negative label - gay. That's why so many people, so many famous people, so many organizations are out there are trying to help homosexuals, they're trying to make the "gay" or "lesbian" or "transgendered" labels be commonly positive instead of negative.
But you - you just sit there at your computer, writing on internet message boards, sarcastically going "boo hoo" to the gays & lesbians who are whimpering over being mistreated because they can't help the fact that they're gay. You just pour salt into the wound by telling them "Well, you had a choice! Being gay isn't genetic! You had a choice to NOT be gay! It's your fault! You made the wrong choice! Being straight is playing it safe! Ha ha!"
*inserts disc 1 of Reading Rainbow: Season Two*