And Do You Get Chips For Being Straight?

Greggers actually asked a decent question of a Republican today on Meet The Press.  Republican Senate candidate for Colorado, Ken Buck, was asked about if he still believed being gay was a "choice".  He didn't just dig himself deeper into the hole, he dropped a couple tons of TNT in there, lit the fuse, and stood there covering his ears.

GREGORY: In a debate last month, you expressed your support for don’t ask, don’t tell, which we talked about with Mr. Gibbs. And you alluded to lifestyle choices. Do you believe being gay is a choice?

BUCK: I do.

GREGORY: Based on what?

BUCK: Based on what?

GREGORY: Ya, do you believe that?

BUCK: Well, I guess you can choose who your partner is.

GREGORY: You don’t think it’s something that’s determined at birth?

BUCK: I think that birth has an influence over it, like alcoholism and some other things, but I think that basically you have a choice. 

Now, correct me if I'm wrong here, but it seems like Ken Buck believes that homosexuality isn't just a lifestyle choice, but a disease with a genetic predisposition that has to be treated with a 12-step program.  The first is bad enough, but the second is truly horrible.

Being gay is something you have to battle all your life against like alcoholism or drug addiction?  That's idiotic on its face.  Ignorance like this not only begets bigotry but adds to the frightening tragedy that is the rising epidemic in suicides of young people who discovered they were gay.

Folks like Ken Buck are telling millions of Americans that "hey, you have an incurable genetic disease that you need to be treated for and if you give into it we'll treat you like a second-class citizen at best and there's a lot worse we can do to you."  It's incredible.  They're our friends, family, loved ones, co-workers, classmates, neighbors...and we should treat them like disease vectors?

That's incorrigible.  And this man thinks he deserves to be a US Senator equating millions of Americans to alcoholics?  Douchebag.