I WAS NOT 'BORN THIS WAY.'
I am not a homosexual, but I do champion the cause of gay marriage and other gay rights. Yet, I am not for the recent use, by ASU Clubs and Organizations championing the gay cause, of the phrase “Born This Way.”
Perhaps Lady Gaga is to blame, but the phrase is simply antithetical to what should be the center notion of the pro-gay movement: that it's not wrong to be gay. I've always found the notion of genetic homosexuality to be implausible, namely because I can't see how a gay gene would be passed on.
But my likely inept biological opinions aside, there are serious issues with this phrase being used to validate homosexual rights.
Suppose it is found that pedophiliacs are born this way, or rapists, or even people who enjoy bestiality.
Use of this phrase is setting up the opposition of the movement for a decisive counterblow. Pedophilia is wrong because it hurts children, this wrongness has nothing to do with its origin in a person.
In general, actions are right and wrong in how they affect people. Period.
Any other moral system or code that depends on pointless abstractions like “naturality” or “normal” is utterly inept and that is the problem with “Born This Way,” it simply doesn't address the core point.
Two human beings that wish to be united in marriage and receive rights should be able to do so, regardless of their gender, because no one's getting hurt.
Make no mistake — the legality of gay marriage should have nothing to do with being born this way.
After all, as an oft-frustrated heterosexual male, I may wish to switch teams and I think I should have moral and legal right to do so.
Otherwise the gay movement is setting up an arbitrary boundary, just like the one's heterosexual have erected with marriage.
Danny Vega
Undergraduate
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