I'm gay, so my child must be as well.

[United Russian Soviet States]

That would be bad.

Even if the person being murdered was also bad?

That is correct.

[Tahar Joblis]

To quote the article:

That seemed to imply, to me, that she wants her child to choose to be gay. Maybe she didn't, and she's just not very good at getting her point across.

Or, maybe you're just selectively reading.

The idea that no one would choose to be gay is widely held — even in the gay rights movement. In the early ’90s, partly as a response to the destructive notion that gay people could be changed, activists pressed the idea of sexuality as a fixed, innate state. Scientists even tried to prove that there’s a “gay gene.” These concepts about sexual orientation helped justify the case for legal protections. The idea that folks are “born gay” became not only the theme of a Lady Gaga song, but the implicit rationale for gay rights.

You do know what the word "destructive" means, correct?

I'm giving background for people who might be bewildered at the idea that some people who are gay also happen to think that it's a choice that they made, whether or not that's true. It's the background context in which I read it and, I assumed (perhaps incorrectly, please correct me), she wrote it.

Yeah, no. She very clearly and explicitly states that the concept that gay people could be changed is "destructive" and hence she doesn't agree with it. What she is ACTUALLY saying is that she feels like the the insistence that gay people are born that way is also bad. She feels that we don't place enough emphasis on the fact that even IF gay people chose to be gay, it wouldn't matter a damn. She's saying that the insistence that people are born gay implicitly supports the idea that being gay is bad, but that it's not their fault because they're just born that way. She's saying that she disagrees with the ways the average person supports gay people, not that gay people choose to be gay.

That she feels the notion is destructive does not mean she disbelieves in the truth of it. I think the notion that one must get a college degree in order to have a good chance of getting a good job is destructive - we're now looking at student loan related debt burdens as an immensely difficult problem - but it's also true.

As evinced by the fact that she also hints at the alternative hypothesis - "gay" sexuality as innate, rather than acquired - as also problematic. There's not much territory in between denying the mutability of sexuality and the innateness of sexuality - sexuality is either environmental, inherited, or a combination of both. You are either "born that way" or can be changed some time after being born.

If you want to say that she believes something avoiding the two "problematic" alternatives, you could suggest that she believes that sexuality is uncontrollable once a child has obtained a sexuality, but does not obtain a sexuality at birth, which leaves you with some window to try to "train" your kid into the "correct" sexuality.

Is that what you think she believes?

[Desperate Measures]

You're just making stuff up now from nothing.

[Hanchu]

I believe this is wrong, the child can be what sexual orientation she wants, lesbian or straight, and it's clear she's chosen straight.

You cant choose your sexual orientation , if you could everyone would be Bisexual at parties , Asexual at funerals , Gay in the military , and straight in church

[Ifreann]

You're just making stuff up now from nothing.

You're only saying that because you want an army of gay-flying-monkey-children to do your bidding, you wicked witch.

[Desperate Measures]

You're just making stuff up now from nothing.

You're only saying that because you want an army of gay-flying-monkey-children to do your bidding, you wicked witch.

Meant to tell you - Progress! It's just the flying bit that's gone a little wonky. I've tried jetpacks but that just helps them over the containment walls.

[Ifreann]

You're only saying that because you want an army of gay-flying-monkey-children to do your bidding, you wicked witch.

Meant to tell you - Progress! It's just the flying bit that's gone a little wonky. I've tried jetpacks but that just helps them over the containment walls.

I suppose we can only hope that they don't breed too much in the wild, being gay.

[Desperate Measures]

Meant to tell you - Progress! It's just the flying bit that's gone a little wonky. I've tried jetpacks but that just helps them over the containment walls.

I suppose we can only hope that they don't breed too much in the wild, being gay.

I don't think it's a worry. They're.... they're not pretty.

[Ifreann]

I suppose we can only hope that they don't breed too much in the wild, being gay.

I don't think it's a worry. They're.... they're not pretty.

It's boar manatee all over again.

[Gauthier]

I don't think it's a worry. They're.... they're not pretty.

It's boar manatee all over again.

Gay Boar Manatees. With natural leather.