"I chose to be gay just as much as I chose to be Black"

This statement and the whole matter, for that point, is starting to aggravate me. I am getting tired of having this same old conversation.

Unfortunately, there are people in this world who see the fight of the 'LGBT'.. [My first time seeing this acronym was today. I initially read the article cause my first thoughts was 'WTH is a LGBT.. But I figured it out: lesbians, gays, bisexual, transgenders] as the same as the fight for Blacks..

That article that I read, the same one that quote was taking out of, was in Diversity, Inc. Diversity, Inc is a magazine that talks about diversity issues. I always had trouble with that magazine and if it had not been for my curiosity about the meaning of LGBT I would not had entertained that article.

I chose to be gay just as much as I chose to be Black.

There is an argument that people are born gay... I COMPLETELY DISAGREE!!! LGBTs use that as an excuse. It is not that a LGBT was born gay, it is that their upbringing influenced them to be gay and far as long as they remember they had LGBT thoughts. True, being Black is not a choice, but being LGBT IS!!!!

Me being a BLACK female LOVES my Black culture and heritage. I would not change anything about my lifestyle. Like the old cliche.. 'I'm black and I'm proud'.. Feeling that way, I see the above quote as insulting.. It is not right to compare an LGBT to a Black person.

For one thing, being Black is not something that a person can decide upon. Being Black is something deemed to a person by God. Just to quote another cliche.. 'Once you go Black, you never go back'.. On the other hand, being a LGBT is strictly a choice. A LGBT chose to be LGBT. A LGBT was NOT born that way. Their childhood influenced a LGBT to became a LGBT.

Those two can not and should not be compared. In fact, I am starting to get upset regarding the matter.

One of the main reasons why they should not be compared is because being a LGBT is a sin. It is not man and man, woman and woman, man and man or woman.. whichever is convenient at the time, or man and used to be man or woman and used to be woman. It is man and woman period.

PUSH PAUSE::

I want to take the time to add that I do not hate LGBTs. I respect them as humans. I feel so strongly on this matter because LGBTs are trying to right LGBT. LGBts are trying to get the world to see LGBTs are being right. LGBTs are trying to influence other people; thus the fight for human rights.

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The problem with this world is that humans are always making excuses for themselves. Those excuses then lead to some mindsets claiming that once-wrongs are now right. Teenage pregnancy is not right, but yet it is becoming the norm. Children out of wedlock is not right, but yet it is becoming the norm.

I read an article today about the winner of Top Chef. The winner, who is a female, and her partner, who is also a female, are both expecting babies. The article wished all congratulations and led to the assumptions that it is okay to have two lesbians pregnant. I guess to better the situation, both ladies are pregnant by the same man. (blah)

Society trips me out sometimes and it amazes me how much cowards humans really are. Instead of seeing the error in their ways, they would rather make up an excuse to allow them to keep doing wrong..

Now, I am not perfect. In fact, NO WHERE near it. BUT I see the error in my ways. I don't go around getting the world so see things from my influence. I don't go around influencing people to do wrong just because I did them. I see all of my wrongs as mistakes that I will never [or atleast try not to] do again. I don't try to right my wrongs. I see my wrongs as wrongs and I learn from them.. So I am not trying to act perfect. I am simply stating how I feel on this matter..