Does the morality of homosexuality depend on it being unchosen?

It seems that the advocates of gay rights and acceptance are obsessed with proving that homosexuality is never a choice. I find this confusing as it doesn't seem to be the best argument. Even if sexual orientation were chosen, I don't see why there would be anything better or worse about preferences for heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality. Rather, I think that if I were able to pick, I would choose to be bisexual, as being straight limits my expression of admiration towards men who may represent the "highest values one can find in a human being" simply due to their genitals. Is that right? Or does the case for rights for and acceptance of gays depend in some way on sexual orientation being unchosen?

Matthew Tobias , 08.04.2014, 23:56

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Ragnar Weskar, 23.04.2014, 19:18

It is possible there are certain individuals who may not have chosen their sexual preference. They may be an anomaly. I don't understand why you are concerned with other people's moral judgment of homosexuality. Human beings are born with certain "inalienable" rights whether government, groups, or private individuals choose to recognize them is irrelevant and immutable. Your sexual orientation is part of you. Why are you sexual attracted to men? Why are sexual attracted to women? What values do you admire in the opposite sex? What values do you admire in men? Couldn't you admire one gender that meets all your values? Or do you think one gender is only capable of the values you admire? Why have chosen those particular values to admire in gender, but not the other?

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