On Sunday, [Ken] Buck made clear that he believes being gay is a choice, although he said that birth may have some "influence" over it -- such as with alcoholism. According to all major mainstream medical and mental health professional organizations, sexual orientation is not a choice. As the American Psychological Association has concluded, "[M]ost people experience little or no sense of choice about their sexual orientation."TPJ: Well, seeing how alcoholism is a disease it's clear that that's how Buck sees homosexuality as well. In other words, he's saying that being born gay is because of a birth defect or mutant genes, should be treated like a medical case study but not the human and civil rights issue that it is. This is also an insulting insinuation that homosexuality can (or should) be "cured" like alcohol addiction.
I will be looking at my fellow Coloradans with some disappointment if they end up voting in this Tea Party Republican. We aren't usually a radical, conservative state while center-right we're usually quite independent and moderate. America needs politicians that will stand up and represent all Americans and not just some elite group that excludes others. If being gay is a choice as he and other conservatives think then when did he decide that he wasn't gay? When did he choose to be straight? Do you know what is a choice Ken? Being homophobic. Ken Buck is an old time bigot.
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Buck's heterosexism is curable, but homosexuality and bisexuality are not diseases.
All this fear of being in the LGBT community reminds me of something straight out of the "X-Men." Well, there's some "Hope" for these bigots yet that they'll figure out, THEY'RE really the mutants.
@Libhom. If there is a disease in all of this--it's Buck. It's certainly not the LGBT community.
@Wendy. Yeah, they can't get past the whole, "Us vs. Them" condition. They are the one's still relying upon that survival instinct that the rest of us ditched with the dawn of intellectualism.
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