Maybe I missed it in the article, but isn’t this the conservative position, that gaydomnessship is a choice?
It absolutely is. It's just the media will now destroy him.
“Maybe I missed it in the article, but isn’t this the conservative position, that gaydomnessship is a choice?”
I don’t think there’s really a “conservative position” on that question - plenty of conservatives think it’s a choice, plenty of conservatives think it’s not.
It seems to me that whether homosexuality is innate or acquired is a clinical psychiatric question. There is no "conservative" or "liberal" position on questions of medicine, things are either true or false. Personally, I detest it when clinical/scientific issues get politicized - it reminds me of how Soviet Communists declared that genetics couldn't be true because it was "capitalist science", or Nazis declaring that relativistic physics can't be true because it was "Jewish science".
My own take is that the notion of somebody hitherto attracted to the opposite sex wakes up one day and says, "I'm going to start having intercourse with the same sex, just because I'm a rebel" is absurd. Whether this means that homosexuality is a genetic trait or the product of early childhood environment, however, remains an open question, but a clinical one, not a political one.