Palin Chooses to be a Narrow-Minded, Self-Righteous Bigot

It seems Gov. Sarah Palin just loves Katie Couric and can't shut up! She keeps giving interviews (finally)! Scrappy Doo didn't do so bad, actually, but she pissed me off when Couric asked her about her views on homosexuality.

Scrappy Doo talked about a friend of hers (gods help the poor woman) who is a lesbian, and here's the zinger that pissed me off:

"She happens to have made a choice that isn’t a choice that I would have made.”

So Scrappy, when did you decide to become a heterosexual? Stupid question, right? But this is what some folks believe, that us gays woke up bored one day and decided to be gay. A "choice" implies the freedom to do one thing or another. I was born gay and have always been gay--even when I chose to date girls and pretend I was heterosexual, even when I had sex with a woman while imagining I was with a guy in order to "keep it up." Or as in Palin's pregnant daughter, who you know didn't have a choice about keeping that baby or marrying the child's father!

What Palin is saying, in effect, is if she were attracted to women, she would repress and deny her sexuality, causing untold emotional and psychological damage to herself. She would lie and pretend, deceiving herself, her family and friends. She would try and marry a man and have a family, plunging several people into a risky arrangement that would likely end in divorce. That would be her choice. That is the kind of twisted individual she is and would like for the rest of us to become!

I did choose, however, to come out and accept myself and stop living someone else's life. Being gay was a gift from the universe; accepting that gift and learning all the good things it offers, that was a choice--a choice I will never regret.