"Religious right hatemonger(s) (will) quote this woman every time they want to deny civil rights"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Former "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon is holding firm to her statement that she has chosen to be homosexual, although her comments have sparked controversy in the gay and lesbian community.

"For me, it is a choice," Nixon says in a New York Times Magazine profile. "I understand that for many people it’s not, but for me it’s a choice, and you don’t get to define my gayness for me."

Her statement hasn't gone over well with gay activists. Writing in AMERICAblog Gay, John Aravosis says that Nixon, who had a long relationship with a man that produced two children before coming out as gay in 2004, is actually bisexual. "She needs to learn how to choose her words better, because she just fell into a right-wing trap, willingly," he writes, "When the religious right says it's a choice, they mean you quite literally choose your sexual orientation, you can change it at will, and that's bull."

He went on to say, "Every religious right hatemonger is now going to quote this woman every single time they want to deny us our civil rights."

http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/24/10226838-cynthia-nixon-im-gay-by-choice

[silverweb]

1. It could be valid for her.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Maybe she's actually bisexual, in which case she does legitimately get to make a choice. Right?

That doesn't mean every other person has the same option.

[Summer Hathaway]

2. It would seem obvious

that this woman is bisexual, and has indeed 'chosen' what she feels is best for her.

As for Aravosis' statement that "She needs to learn how to choose her words better, because she just fell into a right-wing trap, willingly,", he should be championing the right of anyone - gay or straight - to speak their minds, without regard to how it sits with the right, the left, or anyone in between.

"Every religious right hatemonger is now going to quote this woman every single time they want to deny us our civil rights."

Here's a newflash, John: the religious hatemongers don't need any 'quotes' to further their agenda. They do fine spreading their BS, with or without quotes.

"... and you don’t get to define my gayness for me."

Aravosis should listen up.

[MattBaggins]

3. Religous people get really flabbergasted when you say "so what"

They get all smiley and giddy when they say "but it's a choice" like they just won. They get real confused if you say "so what", what does that have to do with it even if it were true?

[Ikonoklast]

4. Avarosis does not get to define how *anyone* defines their own sexuality other than his own.

He better be careful, sitting on that high horse.

[Major Nikon]

5. I think that whether it's a choice or not is irrelevant anyway

The only argument that homosexuality is morally wrong is based on an interpretation of a 3,000 yr old document written by sheep herders. By any intelligent standard this is a piss poor argument. Given that there's nothing ethically wrong with the homosexual 'choice' or whatever you want to call it, why are some who are in that situation being discriminated against when it comes to employment and government benefits? That sure as hell isn't in line with any standard for Democracy or decency.

[cayanne]

6. When you are bisexual

then you can choose.