Evander Holyfield cautioned over 'gay ain't normal' comments

It's one thing to have a family member who is gay and actually support her in being comfortable with who she is. That's the core difference.

 

I really don't care what she does in her bedroom or who she chooses to love. I treat her and her partner with respect just as I would expect her to treat me and my partner. I don't have to agree with her choices in order to love, respect and be comfortable with her.

 

Enough respect to suggest that they deserve the same rights and benefits, despite your personal convictions on the matter? But maybe she would feel a bit differently if she's close to you. She might still feel uneasy talking to you for that matter.

So, why not evolve on the thought?

 

Funny that you think it's a "choice". I suppose your "choice" to engage in relationships with men, and to like certain foods, and to have a certain eye color, and to be right or left-handed was the same. Yes?

 

The minute they definitively identify the gene encoding for sexuality and end the nature vs. nurture debate, it will be a parallel to the black struggle, because it will be about discrimination against someone for a condition that is beyond their control.

With regard to the alleged immorality of the orientation, if there is a supernatural being that is perfect, correct, omnipotent and responsible for creation and gay people are born that way then it is by definition according to the will and design of that same supernatural being. And if it is according to that being's will, it is a tautology that it is thus 'normal' and proper, within the broad spectrum of what is 'normal'.

 

Truth.

 

I don't know the circumstances that led her to be in a same-sex relationship so I say "choose" because I don't know if she was always attracted to women.

 

Can you choose to be straight?

 

I don't have an answer to that.

But if that's coming out of the previous discussion about my family member, I didn't say she chose to be gay. I said I don't know what made her choose to be in a same-sex relationship. Was it because she's always been attracted to women or did something else happen (perhaps with men) that drew her to that? I believe that straight people can be drawn into homosexuality and vice versa, although the second is harder. And there are people who have been in both heterosexual and gay relationships. We never discussed her lifestyle, so I don't know how she came to be in a lesbian relationship.

 

Maybe you shouldn't feign assumptions and just ask her directly. What do you have to lose?

 

She lives in MA. I haven't seen her in at least 15 years. And it's not a big deal and I'm not feigning assumptions. Would she come to me and ask me how I came to be in a heterosexual relationship? Seems to me, this bothers you more than it bothers me.

 

But part in question is whether you're willing to go about your way and learn something rather than just stick with comfortable assumptions. That's all it is.

 

MS, let it go. You're like a dog with a bone. I'm not going to call someone I haven't seen in 15 years and ask her why she's a lesbian. Talk about offensive!

 

Oohhhh the irony.

 

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"evander is crazy" said dennis rodman

 

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is that what he said in the recent interview from south korea? gibberish...the dude can't speak english