Is sexuality a choice?

In late 2013, the Ugandan Parliament passed the Anti-Homosexuality Act, a draconian law aimed at curtailing gay and lesbian relationships, which one Ugandan politician called “a bad habit. read more

To all of my Christian brothers and sisters who insist that homosexuality is a choice, I need to break down and finally admit something: I agree with you. I believe that it absolutely is a choice too, only not in the way that you may have meant. read more

If being gay is truly a choice, then people who attempt to change their orientation should be able to do so. But most people who are gay describe it as a deeply ingrained attraction that can't simply be shut off or redirected. read more

It is contentious – a hand grenade, really – because in it she asserts, like an Old Testament maven from Tennessee, that being gay is a “choice”, it is not innate and no one is, in Lady Gaga’s words, “Born This Way”. read more