Comment by lern_too_spel
9 years ago
False equivalence. Gay people don't choose to be gay, and gay people aren't harming others. A business can refuse to serve skateboarders, shirtless people, and other people who are being a nuisance; and it can certainly refuse to serve people who bring violence wherever they go.
>Gay people don't choose to be gay
Out of interest, if tomorrow it was somehow proved beyond doubt that being gay was a choice, would this make discrimination OK?
You left out the second part of the sentence.
If you're saying that Nazis choose to be Nazis, then could you choose to become a Nazi? I don't mean pretend to be one, or act like one, but actually believe their disgusting ideology. If you couldn't choose to do that, then presumably they didn't choose to either, and they couldn't choose to not believe their ideology. And maybe gay people could choose not to enter gay relationships, and maybe them having that ability still isn't a good reason for businesses to discriminate against them.
You seem to contradict the recent view in the LGBTQ. community that gender is a social construct and that you can choose which gender feels right for you!
Your implication that being gay has to do with biology and hence it has a hereditary component is at odds with what we are currently hearing from everywhere.
Which view is it the valid one?
To me these are exclusive so in the community should choose just one discourse.
Wow, grossly misrepresented and mischarachaterized.
As a member of the LGBTQ community I have met zero trans people who feel that they chose their gender expression, and zero people who felt they chose their sexual orientation, instead of being born and growing into their identities over time. I'm not saying it doesn't exist but I highly, doubt it's anywhere close to a plurality much less a majority.
Where exactly have you heard that most trans people are "choosing" their expressed gender? And why do you think there is one view for many people to "choose"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genderqueer
https://lgbtq.unc.edu/resources/exploring-identities
http://lgbt.wikia.com/wiki/Gender_identity
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