Re:Google Announces Global Campaign To Legalize Gay Marriage
by einhverfr on Sunday July 08, 2012 @02:45AM
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I suspect it is about as much of a choice as which hair color you find most sexy.
Seriously I wouldn't call it a choice. Nobody goes and reads up on hair color and then decides "you know, I think from now on I am not going to prefer blonds, but rather readheads." To reduce it to a choice is just silly.
But the anthropological consensus is that sexual orientation is a cultural construct. These can be binding. For example, I suppose I can choose when spending a $20 bill that it has the same value as a $5 bill but there is no reason when I am being paid to choose that a $5 bill has the same value as a $20. So in this regard, I suppose one may argue that sexual orientation is as real as the difference in value between a $5 bill and a $20 bill....
Seriously I wouldn't call it a choice. Nobody goes and reads up on hair color and then decides "you know, I think from now on I am not going to prefer blonds, but rather readheads." To reduce it to a choice is just silly.
But the anthropological consensus is that sexual orientation is a cultural construct. These can be binding. For example, I suppose I can choose when spending a $20 bill that it has the same value as a $5 bill but there is no reason when I am being paid to choose that a $5 bill has the same value as a $20. So in this regard, I suppose one may argue that sexual orientation is as real as the difference in value between a $5 bill and a $20 bill....