{"id":10264,"date":"2015-07-21T22:43:47","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T22:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10264"},"modified":"2015-07-21T22:43:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T22:43:47","slug":"does-one-choose-to-be-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10264","title":{"rendered":"Does one ‘choose’ to be gay?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has entered the Republican presidential field.<\/p>\n

He’s also said he doesn’t know if people choose to be gay.<\/p>\n

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The columnist Richard Cohen posed what I presume to be a rhetorical question: “At what point did he (Walker) decide to be heterosexual? At what age did he decide that he would not be homosexual or, if he had the energy, bisexual? I know for myself that I am unaware of making such a decision and did not mark it down \u2014 as I now would \u2014 in my Google Calendar or tweet it to much of America and the ships at sea.”<\/p>\n

It’s a question that’s likely to dog the governor as he campaigns for the GOP presidential nomination.<\/p>\n

I keep falling back to another question posed by a gay friend of mine. His name was Tim. He died of AIDS-related complications in 1994. After he revealed to his friends and colleagues that he had contracted HIV, he and I discussed his sexual orientation. “Why would I choose<\/em> to be vilified and condemned?” Tim asked.<\/p>\n

Why, indeed?<\/p>\n

Tim said he\u00a0didn’t choose his sexual orientation. He considered it to be part of his DNA, of his character, of his very being<\/p>\n

I don’t know when, or if, Gov. Walker will ever reach a conclusion on people’s sexual orientation.\u00a0He’ll likely have to decide before his presidential campaign gets too far down the road.<\/p>\n\n

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