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Local station I rarely listen to but tuned in to get local weather and traffic yesterday. They were discussing DADT and I heard 3 callers. All were adamantly opposed and most made grotesque comments not worth repeating here. But the 3rd caller was the most obnoxious and I was surprised to hear the host challenge him. He finally asked the guy "Do you believe that homosexuality is a choice?" And the guy said "Yes, definitely." So the host said "So if YOU wanted to, YOU could choose to be gay?" And the guy said "Well it's not a choice I would ever make but yes, some people do make this choice." Then he went on to quote some bible passage.
The host interrupted him and said "I'm going to ask you again. I don't think you understand what I am getting to here. If it is a choice, as you claim, why have you NEVER faced this as a personal decision? I mean, it seems like if it was indeed a choice, all of us could say well I thought about it but chose not to be gay."
The caller just froze. Didn't say a word. So the host then repeated that if homosexuality is a choice, all of us who have chosen to be straight should be able to claim a moment in our own lives when we faced the gay choice and turned it down. But we never hear these stories,. Instead we claim that those who are gay have made a choice that none of the rest of us ever remember facing.
Really blew me away.
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