Hmmm... Kerry could be onto something here.
Posted on 03/26/2004 3:45:37 PM PST by Guillermo
Kerry says people are born gay
By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
The Associated Press
3/26/04 3:49 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says he believes people are born gay but are not guaranteed the right to marry within their own gender.
"I think it's entirely who you are from birth, personally," Kerry said in an interview to be broadcast on MTV. "Some people might choose, but I think that it's, it's who you are. I think you have ... people need to be able to be who they are."
Asked why he favors civil unions instead of marriage if people are born gay, Kerry replied: "What is distinct is the institutional name or whatever people look at as the sacrament within a church, or within a synagogue or within a mosque as a religious institution. There is a distinction. And the civil state really just adopted that, and it's the rights that are important, not the sort of ... the name of the institution."
In a transcript released Friday by MTV for its Tuesday special "Choose or Lose: 20 Million Questions for John Kerry," the presumptive Democratic nominee said he favors civil unions to give people partnership, inheritance and other rights.
"I think that people have a right in America to be who they are," Kerry said. "I believe very strongly that we can advance the cause of equality by moving toward civil union."
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Oh..I'm sure he'll change his opinion when he changes venue....seems to be the trend here.
Hmmm... Kerry could be onto something here.
2. Some people might choose. . .
3. I think that it's, it's who you are. . .
In conclusion: I think you have ... people need to be able to be who they are.
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Kerry again, has his waffle; and eats it too.
Hold that thought.
And if Herman Munster had run for President; he would have lost as well.
And not one of my gay friends would agree with you. Every one of them laughed at the idea that being gay was genetic. ("Yeah. I got the gay gene from the man who had sex with my mother... riiiight.") They all told me that they had terrible, traumatic childhoods. Some of them were just deeply neglected or felt outcast and were looking for a place to belong. Being gay is a combination of sex and a twisted mental development.
Better than being a serial killer or into a fire thing...
In the prior discussion I did not even say anything about whether being gay was genetic,. My point was that people can choose their sexual behavior but not their sexual feelings.
But now that you mention it, I do not think that a poll of your particular gay friends is a good way to determine the truth concerning the origin of sexual preference. Apparently many gay people did not have traumatic childhoods and many do believe that being gay has a genetic component as they have relatives who are gay or bisexual. Even if being gay is not genetic, it is still possible that exposure to incorrect levels of hormones during gestation influences eventual sexual preference before birth. For instance, 37 percent of female infants born with a condition called congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) eventually become lesbian. link
If being gay was like drug addiction or alcoholism, that would mean that gay people decided to try gay sex and then found it so enjoyable that they couldn't quit. As a heterosexual I cannot conceive of finding the prospect of gay sex so enticing that I would ever try it to begin with. It seems unlikely that if I did try it I would suddenly change from finding homosexual sex to be disgusting to preferring it.
But I believe that there are a lot of people who consider themselves heterosexual and have never had gay sex, but think it might be enjoyable and must resist the inclination. In my opinion these people are bisexual.
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