Ah yes. We've heard this line before. Because being gay is a "chosen behavior," it is undeserving of civil rights protections.Hmm. Okay, so let's review. Homosexuality is not deserving of anti-discrimination protection because it involves "choice." So does religion.
It's the same reason given by many evangelicals -- and particularly black and minority evangelicals, and people who claim they support civil rights -- for not supporting gays and lesbians in hate-crime protections: "You can't compare being gay to being black. One's immutable, one's chosen."
Well, yes, this is true when it comes to race. And even ethnicity. These are, after all, two of the three main legs of anti-discrimination and hate-crimes laws.
But it's not true of the third leg of these laws: religion. Last I checked, this too was a "chosen behavior."
Of course, most of the anti-rights jihadists who hate gays would gleefully purge the country of Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, neo-pagans, agnostics and liberal Jews and Christians – and an awful lot of them would happily turn their guns on Catholics (they're "Papists," after all) and all Jews. Can't be too careful, you know. So I guess this one isn't really about hypocrisy so much as resentment of that annoying First Amendment that protects freedom of religion. They can't legally discriminate against the heretics, but by God they can persecute the homos.
Unless they’re Republicans, that is. IOKIYAR, after all.
(/) Roland X
Who apologizes yet again for the incredibly long dearth of posts, but isn't going to waste lots of bandwidth on the subject.
