Re: OT: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?"YerUgly Mug," etc.

En réponse à Nik Taylor :


>I've never heard the word CHOICE used.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/hom_fixe.htm. It makes it clear that most
conservative Christian organisations call homosexuality "something that one
does, a chosen lifestyle", denying that it is an unchosen orientation. I've
often seen the expression "chosen lifestyle", both by American rightwingers
and French ones (in French of course :)) ). I find it surprising that you
never heard it.

>   I've heard homosexuality called
>a disease or a perversion, or comparing it to addictions, but never
>called a *choice*, except by left-wingers and homosexuals debunking the
>alleged claim!
Well, if you listen carefully, you'll hear that right-wingers opposing
homosexuality always call it a "behaviour", an "addiction", a "preference",
clearly implying that a choice had been made and can be unmade, rather than
an innate orientation.

>Now, as for homosexual acts, that's another thing.  Certainly one can
>make a choice, regardless of orientation, for sexual activity or for
>celibacy, and many right-wingers do believe that, if homosexuality can't
>be "cured," that celibacy should be chosen, but that's not the same
>thing as claiming that homosexuality itself is a choice
It is in right-wingers' eyes which refuse to see in homosexuality more than
a behaviour.

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.

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