Clarence Page’s column (“What gays and blacks have in common,” Commentary, July 22) was an insightful and compassionate defense of homosexual relationships. Nothing could be further from the truth than to assert that homosexuality is a choice. It is even more careless to assert that this condition can be reversed.
The message that this sends to every gay person struggling with his or her decision to admit love for someone of the same sex is that homosexuality is a disease to be cured. My own father’s first reaction to my brother coming out of the closet 13 years ago was, “Oh, he’ll grow out of it.” My father has since, through education and compassion, altered his opinion.
Of all the gay men and women I know, none of them has stated that his or her sexuality is a choice, and many have come to terms with their destiny at the expense of family members who don’t understand that love is love, no matter if it’s boy/girl, boy/boy or girl/girl.
My brother and his partner have been together as long as my husband and I have. They own a home, have successful occupations, tend a garden, grocery shop, care for a dog and act as tremendous uncles and babysitters to my two kids.
How dare the “Truth in Love” campaign suggest that this is a condition that needs to be changed for the better.
