Saletan makes the point that the more likely someone is to believe that homosexuality is not a choice, the more likely they are to have feelings of acceptance toward homosexuals. This is driving a lot of acceptance, which is a good thing. It's built on a crappy logic, which is a bad thing.

Personally, I don't think it matters on f*cking bit whether someone chooses homosexuality or not. I think it's about one person's right to engage in their sexuality with another consenting adult.

Making it about "choice" sets up this absurd scenario: it's okay for a gay man to meet another gay man and go have sex. However, when a bisexual man (for whom heterosexual sex is an option) meets another man an has sex...it's wrong? No way.

Focusing on "choice" allows people to cling to the idea that homosexuality is still very very wrong, but (poor dears) there's just nothing gay people can do about it. Bullsh*t. We won't have any real change on the issue until people drop this reactionary condemnation in the first place.