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There is no conscious choice of heterosexual identity any more than there is a homosexual one. The last person in the world who wants to be homosexual, for the most part, are homosexuals.

— Michael Eric Dyson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

— Marlo Thomas

Gay is not a choice.

— Jillian Michaels

Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.

— Caitlyn Jenner

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don't think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

— Billy Graham

Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man.

— James Dobson

We don't really get to see gay characters who are completely open with their sexuality, but it doesn't define who they are.

— Richard Madden

Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual.

— Tom Ford

While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.

— Cynthia Nixon

✗Opposing Perspectives

There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.

— Michael Stipe

There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.

— Gore Vidal