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Apple boss Tim Cook has just burst out of the closet by declaring he is homosexual.<\/p>\n

OK. That’s a big deal? I think not. He is who he is and that’s all fine and dandy.<\/p>\n

Then comes U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Loony Bin, to suggest something else is at work here.<\/p>\n

“Those are his personal choices,” Cruz said of Cook’s sexual orientation, meaning, I reckon, that Cook chose to be gay.<\/p>\n

Cruz then added, “I love my iPhone.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/222300-cruz-on-apple-ceo-being-gay-personal-decision<\/a><\/p>\n

Is there any doubt now as to why Cruz and other outspoken Republicans are having trouble connecting with gay Americans?<\/p>\n

I keep coming back to this notion a person’s sexuality is pre-determined. One doesn’t come into this world, in my view, grow toward adolescence, and then, when puberty kicks in, decide<\/em>\u00a0to become attracted to individuals of the same sex.<\/p>\n

One’s sexuality is part of who they are. It’s in their genetic code, in their DNA.<\/p>\n

For the freshman senator from Texas to ridicule someone’s sexual orientation by comparing it to his “love” for his iPhone cheapens the discussion.<\/p>\n

As a friend once said to\u00a0after me he revealed to the world many years ago that he had become infected with HIV\/AIDS while also disclosing his own homosexuality, “Why would I ever choose<\/em> to become the object of scorn and revulsion?”<\/p>\n

He answered his own question. He didn’t choose it at all.<\/p>\n

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