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The boat's already rocking, and I'm leery of capsizing it, and I'm not suggesting that my conjectures here apply to anyone in particular, but I wonder...
We are a group of gay and bi men who have experienced or witnessed or fear prejudicial treatment. We are normal in every way except that the genetically determined attraction that guys feel towards girls is genetically determined, in our case, to point towards guys. All we ask of society is that this difference in behavior be acknowledged and no longer be a subject of ridicule or hatred or intolerance.
Now, there exist other behavioral traits, genetically determined, that affect one's propensity to act before thinking, or be quick to anger, or be abnormally defensive. These behavioral traits can be hidden if one is constantly alert to them, but doing so is denying one's genetic makeup. One could just as well ask society to put up with nature: oh, that guy's gay, he likes guys, big deal; oh, that guy spouts off, it's just the way he is, big deal.
The obvious huge difference here is that my gayness doesn't affect others, while my tendency to anger and to speak judgementally does affect others. Society tolerates anti-social behaviors up to a point, but then strikes out to limit an anti-social person's scope of influence. Is this fair? We believe that any discrimination against gays is unfair and intolerable. Do people who are genetically prone to non-violent, anti-social behavior deserve the same consideration?
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