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Homophobia – Now That’s a Choice BUTTON<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n

\"Homophobia<\/a><\/h2>\n

Homophobia – Now That’s a Choice – Rainbow Pride Bar – BUTTON<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

This cool design is linked to a button, but other great Top Pun products like T-shirts, bumper stickers, mugs, caps, key chains, magnets, posters, and sticker sheets can be accessed by scrolling down the product page.<\/span><\/p>\n

View more Anti-Homophobia Buttons<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Homophobes like to focus on the idea that sexual orientation is chosen, at least homosexual orientation!\u00a0 Funny how if you ask a heterosexual person when they chose their sexual orientation it seems like a stupid question to them.\u00a0 Strangely some heterosexuals think that homosexuals choose their sexual orientation.\u00a0 Well, this double standard or hypocrisy is made even more surreal by focusing on what actually is a choice, that is whether to discriminate on persons based on their sexual orientation.\u00a0 Discrimination is a choice.\u00a0 Tolerance and acceptance is a choice.\u00a0 Fear is a choice.\u00a0 Sexual orientation is not a choice.\u00a0 Sexual orientation is something we are born with; it is God-given, a gift.<\/p>\n

Of course, condemning people for something for which they have no choice is cruel at best.\u00a0 Nonetheless,\u00a0 it seems that homophobes have to believe that being gay is a choice.\u00a0\u00a0 It makes no sense to speak of something as moral or immoral if there is not a choice involved!\u00a0\u00a0 Now, sexual behavior is a choice, but holding that persons of homosexual orientation cannot act in any way on that orientation is absurd.\u00a0 First, sexual orientation and identity is way more than simply sexual acts, it\u00a0 is a fundamental way in which we relate to romantic partners.\u00a0 To deny this aspect for another human being is denying that human being a basic human right.\u00a0 Most anti-gay bigotry comes from religious traditions.\u00a0 In the United States, the anti-gay bigotry comes largely from Christianity.\u00a0 All you have to do is start reading the Bible in Genesis to see that it all starts out so good, good, good, good, good!\u00a0 The first thing in the Bible that is declared to not be good, is that Adam is alone.\u00a0 To insist that the only way that somebody can be moral is to be alone and unable to choose a life partner violates the very first principle that God laid out in the Bible concerning how we were created for one another and how God meant for us to live in partnership.\u00a0 I think the Bible got it right in Genesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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