Boehner Claims Homosexuality Is A "Choice"

It's no secret to many that I cannot stand Speaker of the House John Boehner who I perceive to be nothing more than an ignorant, lying weasel. He underscored this assessment back in August when a brief was filed in the ongoing DOMA litigation in which it was stated “a significant percentage of gays and lesbians believe they exercised some or a great deal of choice in determining their sexuality.” As proof, fingers were pointed at gays and lesbians who had married as if lying to one's self - and everyone else - and trying to be straight when you're not somehow makes sexual orientation a "choice." I have a lot of experience in this matter and my comment to Boehner is get your head out of your ass and get your nose out of the asses of the Christofascists. To Boehner, the professional opinions of legitimate professional associations (with emphasis on the word legitimate) like the APA mean nothing to Boehner. He'd rather listen to quacks like "Marcia" Bachmann and the folks at NARTH. Think Progress looks at Boehner's disingenuous batshitery. Here are some highlights:

Edie Windsor, who is challenging the constitutionality of the the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and seeking a refund of the federal estate tax paid by the estate of her late wife, filed an affidavit yesterday responding to House Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) claim that her homosexuality was a “choice.” Lawyers for Boehner’s Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the House of Representatives (“BLAG”) levied the charge in a brief filed on Aug. 1, writing, “a significant percentage of gays and lesbians believe they exercised some or a great deal of choice in determining their sexuality.”

Windsor argued that her short marriage to a man demonstrated the opposite. “I understand that BLAG argues in its papers that my first, brief marriage to Saul Weiner in 1951 demonstrates that I had a ‘choice’ about my sexual orientation. As I explain below, that is certainly not the case,” she said. “What my marriage to Saul Weiner shows is that although I tried to make a ‘choice’ about my sexual orientation by getting married to a man, I was simply unable to do so.”

All major medical professional organizations agree that sexual orientation is not a choice and cannot be changed, from gay to straight or otherwise. . . . Professor Lisa Diamond — whose work Boehner’s lawyers cite to substantiate their claims — has charged BLAG of distorting her writings. “Neither this article nor any of my other published work supports BLAG’s claim that ‘a high number of persons who experience sexual attraction to members of the same sex early in their adult lives later cease to experience such attraction,” she claimed in an affidavit.

It's all too typical of the political whores in the GOP who slavishly kiss the asses or the Christianist and lie and distort research to further lies and untruths.