'Being gay is not a choice'
published: Sunday | August 24, 2003

THE EDITOR, Sir:

RE: Ian Boyne; Homosexuality & The Bible.

Your column, which I just "read," (more like skimmed through since it was so long and filled with, "look, I have a big vocabulary," platitudes), was a truly exhausting read but the highlight of an otherwise rainy Sunday in the north-east of the United States.

Ian, this is so easy: Some people are born heterosexual. Some other people, (admittedly a minority), are born homosexual. It doesn't matter what the Bible says; it doesn't matter what you say or a lot of other people or what you quote in your "Genetic" section. It just "is."

Get over it, learn to live with it, accept it, and life will be a lot easier for everyone. Being gay is not a choice; it's a merely a genetic predispostion of birth. This is not new; it goes back thousands of year. The sooner you start using your big vocabulary to explain this, the better for all. I was born left-handed. I think of being homosexual in the same manner. Either you are, or you are not. Being homosexual has about the same threat as being left-handed. You can't catch it!

I am, etc.,

MARYANN JONES

maj@aol.com

Massachusetts

Via Go-Jamaica

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