Ethics

Rowe Debunks Anti-Gay Arguments

By Ed Brayton

You may have read about the administrator at the University of Toledo who was suspended for writing an anti-gay column in the local paper. Jon Rowe has an excellent post at Positive Liberty that has exactly the proper response to the situation: defending her right to say what she said, and showing why she's wrong. He systematically debunks her arguments with reason. First, the argument from immutability. She wrote:

As a black woman who happens to be an alumnus of the University of Toledo's Graduate School, an employee and business owner, I take great umbrage at the notion that those choosing the homosexual lifestyle are 'civil rights victims.' Here's why. I cannot wake up tomorrow and not be a black woman. I am genetically and biologically a black woman and very pleased to be so as my Creator intended.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 09, 2008 (boomark / email).