Being gay is not “a behavior”

[chervilant]

From Salon, an article written by Mary Elizabeth Williams:

These must be very troubling and frustrating times for you, homophobes. A majority of Americans now support marriage equality, and face it, if it’s not fully recognized where you live yet, it will be and soon. A majority of us also support gay political candidates, and we seem to be able to watch gay people on television and movies and listen to them as we drive around in post breakup sadness without the fabric of society crumbling — probably because if you look across the population, it’s composed entirely of people who either are LGBT or who know someone who is. And yet, bless your tenacious, confused, chilly little hearts, some of you still don’t get it. And you just cannot stop talking about it.

Well worth the read, except for the aforementioned homophobes...

[shenmue]

1. Soon, people will have to give up being ticked off all the time

[chervilant]

4. Yes,

in ever increasing numbers, our younglings are rejecting racism, sexism and homophobia.

[kcass1954]

2. It's also not "a lifestyle" - another one of their stupid little phrases that drives me nuts.

I just don't get all the hatred.

[chervilant]

5. I just don't get all the hatred...

I say that about fifty times a day...

(Living in a part of the country where racism and homophobia are proudly flaunted...)

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Being religious is a behavior AND a civil right.

[chervilant]

6. There's a profound chasm between being "religious"

and succoring hate and bigotry.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. In some cases, yes, but that isn't my point.

My point is that "a behavior" is protected, and while homosexuality isn't a behavior, those who make that argument don't realize the hypocrisy of their argument.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. And if this billboard was targeting any other minority group, DU would explode.

Instead it yawns.

[bvf]

10. I don't know about that.

There's plenty of criticism directed at the Roman Catholic Church and its leaders for its (their) views on this. Trouble is, you have to wade neck-deep into a river of horseshit in order to find it.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. I know a few who refuse to behave.