How can you be pro-choice but anti-gay?

Question

I really don't get that at all. Women's right to choose is a human right, as is love and marriage.

I actually was referring to Pro_choice whatever her name is. I wasn't able to elaborate on that because I had to leave before finishing. I know they are different things on the spectrum, but at the same time, if you're pro-life, you don't want the government in your business telling you what to do. But how is that possible when you're just fine with them telling who you can spend the rest of your life with and how to live your life by using alternative means.

Answer 1

To those who don't know, this question is referring to a user going by the name "pro_choice_my_right"

This woman broadcasts that she is a gay-basher and constantly says that all parents of gay people should have aborted the fetus.

Reading her answers and questions I really think she is just an uneducated b*tch who needs to go back to school and while she's there she should take a course on tolerance. I reported every answer of hers that I found offensive... I know that makes me sound like I have nothing better to do with my time, but I really don't. Ha!

And you are completely right sweetie, abortion is a choice, sexual orientation isn't. What difference does it make who you are as long as there is love?




Update... Just so you know, I think she has been deleted. I tried to search for her today to see if she did anything else offensive, but I cannot find her account or any of her answers/questions. Yay!

Answer 2

I honestly can't see how the two are in any way related. Marriage, and the socio-legal ramifications thereof, are not a right but a result of societal custom which has come to be reflected in law due to general acceptance. The pre-christian Celtic societies recognized over a dozen (some authorities put it at twice that) forms of marriage, including polygamy, polandary, same sex, line marriages, even marriages with expiration dates. U.S. law was based on British common law since it was that that the colonists, being mostly British, knew and generally practiced. British common law was in turn based on Catholic Church law as adapted by the Church of England. The state has always reserved the power to define in law what was and was not "marriage" in respect to legal rights and priviledges. Prohibiting same sex marriage has the same validity as prohibiting plural or inter-racial marriage (however much that may be is outside the scope of this discussion) both which were done as a reflection of majority common practice. Abortion is a "Right" because the Supreme Court said it was, and that body can, at any time, revoke that right by a majority ruling, something the Religious Reich has been working toward for years. It is also in no way a "Human" right since it totaly denied to men. While a mother may chose to opt out for any reason, the father has no similar option, making it a case of gender based special priviledge. The same is true of any supposed right not specifically delineated in the Constitution. The only way social changes come is through education, people will not change their beliefs, attitudes, or even, in many cases, their practices, because a law is passed or a court makes a ruling. What is required is a free exchange of ideas between open minded individuals, each willing to listen and strive for a compromise with which the majority can live. Screaming about "Rights" and demanding to have it all your own way RIGHT NOW! never has, and never will accomplish anything.

Answer 3

Well, I am neither pro-choice or pro-life.I think that is something that should be on a case by case basis determined by many factors.None of which I am qualified to make.

I also wonder if the coin could be flipped around and asked, "How can you be pro-life and pro-gay.

But then, I don't see a need to be pro or against anything.My thought is, if it doesn't concern you then it isn't your business to decide for someone whose business it is.

But if we put it to a vote I would probably be pro-choice and pro-equality.Notice I don't say "pro-gay".I think equality shouldn't have labels or restrictions.If it does then it isn't equal.

Answer 4

I don't get that either, but if I had to guess.

Pro-choice means that personal decisions are not subject to govt control. However, while who you get in relationships with may be a personal choice, whether the government provides legal benefits to those relationships is a government choice.

So, by that logic, while the government cannot impose its decisions on others, neither can others force the government to recognize as valid anything the government disapproves of.

I'm just guessing, because those two beliefs seem contradictory.

Answer 5

People formulate their opinions based on their experiences, evironmental factors and the way they are brought up. I don't really see how pro-choice and anti-gay are related, since neither deal with the same or even similar issues.

Answer 6

I'm with you completely. I do see the relationship between the two.

Pro-legislated abortion choice yet anti-legislation to protect discrimination for a minority group that just's being who they are born to be. (Many states are okay with companies firing someone just because their employer finds out they are.)

Supporting legalized killing yet against legal recognition of loving life long commitment.

I'm totally pro-choice, by the way, and have limited tolerance for those practicing hypocrisy as a way of being.

Answer 7

Abortion is a choice made by an individual and homosexuality is just genetics and environmental components.

I'm for gay marriage and pro-choice, people should choose their life, and not be regulated by the government.

Answer 8

OK.. first off. these are two completely different subjects.. one is a choice (hence the term pro-CHOICE), the other is not a choice, but a way of life. Anyone who tells you differently is a bigot.

THUS.. it is possible (but NOT acceptable in any way) to be anti-gay and pro choice.

As for the subject of marriage... as a gay man myself, I am all for civil partnerships, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do NOT call it marriage! this is an insult to homosexuals. The term marriage is a religious term - religions that are so narrow minded they say love thy neighbour (who may be the same sex as you) but doesn't even acknowledge love between two people of the same sex... (how ****** up is that!).

Answer 9

The two things are not anywhere close in the spectrum of legalities or morality. Anyhow, I am neither pro choice or anti-gay. I wish gays would just keep there sex lives private like the rest of us and abortion has a time and a place but is not an across the board okay thing to do.

Answer 10

i get what u are saying very clever for those that can work through the wording you are saying both are a choice. And both choices can have disastrous consequences. If you choose to abort the baby you are killing an innocent child (and don't say it's just a fetus I was almost aborted and I am not a fetus) And if you choose to have sex with a male other than loss of bowel movement control and excessive bleeding you are killing your soul every time your body is used by another male to fulfill their own gratification.