People choose to be gay...

Yesterday I posted a status on Facebook that stated, "People choose to be gay like people choose to be heterosexual. If you believe that, you're am idiot. You're a bigger idiot if you believe people are born that way, then worship a god mean enough to make them that way and hold it against them."

My point was to make people think. I firmly believe people are born gay or straight. I do not believe there is choice in the matter and I feel very passionate about this.

As a child, I was taught such things as "X music is evil, possession can happen from just about anything, gays are living in sin and we should 'love the person and hate the sin'." I could go on, but I won't.

It is perhaps this upbringing that makes me so passionate about some things.

I think much of what I was taught was wrong.

That said, I feel that I went about it the wrong way...when I posted that status. I don't believe in the idea of there being a group of "right" people with "right" ideas.

I feel bad for posting that status. Not because I think I said the wrong thing, but because I called those who disagree with me and believe differently than me, "idiots."

Doing so made me no better than those with their condescending, "I'll pray for you" line. I was the same as them and their judgment and I don't want to be that way.

I never want to believe or insinuate that I am somehow better than another. I'm not.

As a mother, I never want to raise my children to think this either. I don't want them to form ideas and ridicule others who believe differently than they do. I hope that they will forgive my slip yesterday.