Actress' claim to be gay by choice riles activists By LISA LEFF | Associated Press – 3 hrs ago
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Cynthia Nixon learned the hard way this week that when it comes to gay civil rights, the personal is always political. Very political. The actress best known for portraying fiery lawyer Miranda Hobbes on "Sex and the City" is up to her perfectly arched eyebrows in controversy since The New York Times Magazine published a profile in which she was quoted as saying that for her, being gay was a conscious choice. Nixon is engaged to a woman with whom she has been in a relationship for eight years. Before that, she spent 15 years and had two children with a man. "I understand that for many people it's not, but for me it's a choice, and you don't get to define my gayness for me," Nixon said while recounting some of the flak gay rights activists previously had given her for treading in similar territory. "A certain section of our community is very concerned that it not be seen as a choice, because if it's a choice, then we could opt out. I say it doesn't matter if we flew here or we swam here, it matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not.".................>>>>.....................>>>>......................http://news.yahoo.com/actress-claim-gay-choice-riles-activists-201717513.html
I don't see the controversy??? Obviously some people are born straight, some born gay, and some a blend of the two. For a bisexual to "choose" to be gay or to be straight, is always an option, but that says nothing about others who are born gay and have no choice.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
everyone ALWAYS has a choice.....and choosing isn't always easy....this isn't shopping for red/green/blue sweaters.....most of life are hard choices....we just keep whining to the government to 'make our choices easier, because we are poor pathetic slobs'.....
MAKE YOUR CHOICE AND MOVE ON AND LIVE WITH IT.....it's just what happens....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Cynthia Nixon On 'Gay Choice' Comments: I Am Bisexual Which 'Is Not A Choice' Posted: 01/30/2012 3:57 pm
Cynthia Nixon declared last week in a controversial New York Times interview that for her, being gay "is a choice," but the "Sex and the City" star is now rectifying those remarks in response to public outcry from lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists.
The actress, who is currently earning raves for her Broadway turn as a cancer patient in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Wit," released a statement about the interview to The Advocate. "My recent comments in The New York Times were about me and my personal story of being gay," she said. "I believe we all have different ways we came to the gay community and we can't and shouldn't be pigeon-holed into one cultural narrative which can be uninclusive and disempowering."
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