Why would someone make that choice???

Recently it has been brought to my attention just how small minded some people still are in this day in age. I felt proud to be of this generation because I felt we had all come a very long way from discrimination and that once we got the "geezers" out of congress and such our generation would surely bring pride and prosper our country once again. But with a simple post on FB I was brought to reality. Following this is the post:

Please put this on your status if you know or love someone who is gay.
My wish for 2010 is that people will understand that being gay is not a
disease nor a choice - people who are gay are not looking for a cure but
ACCEPTANCE and EQUAL RIGHTS!! 93% won't copy and paste this. Will you
.........make it your status for at...... least one hour...? .... Promote LOVE
& Acceptance

Following this post I watched individuals feel the need to comment about how being Gay was a choice. Of course this enraged me, I was disgusted that people still to this day feel that way. Even better it's not like they were in their 40's+, they were of OUR generation. Yes and opinion is an opinion, but what I don't understand is why would someone even think this is a choice?? Further more I do understand that for some people it is, people reaching for attention, porn stars who switch between the two-etc. However to people who are born to love someone of the same sex comments like these are extremely hurtful. I didn't decide to be straight and for the life of me i cannot see how someone or why someone would choose to be discriminated againt. They cannot marry the ones they love, they are called a million and a half slurs, they get stared at when they're in public and unfortunately hate crimes are up not down. So many feel like such outcasts and have been so discriminated againt that the only way they feel to get away is suicide. I once heard someone call suicide "a permanent solution to a temporary problem" and I agree, and I hope that these problems are temporary because love is love regardless of where it comes from.

You see protesters outside court buildings fighting against the right for gay marriage. At one point those protesters were out there fighting against African American rights...and look where we stand today. Once they were out there standing and fighting for womens rights-and eventually succeeded. I can only pray that someday we will have a president come and give all the rights to gays. How would you feel if the person you loved is laying there dying and you cannot do a thing because you aren't technically family. You cant make any choices in their health; even though you know what would be in the best interest of your lover; because you are not married although you've been together longer than 50% of both gender marriages considering we know that in our country the divorce rate is at an all time high. You see people holding signs saying "Gays belong in Hell"..."Gay is an ultimate sin" what makes you yhink that living in this society isn't alreay hell for them? What do you think would go SO wrong if they were granted rights to marry? Seriously? Okay onto the next...I dont care if your divorce is anulled or whatever the church does to forgive it, it's still a divorce and in the eye of "God" or the "Bible" or hell even most marriage VOWS you are promising til death. Yet our divorce rate in this country is ridiculous because people would rather give up than fight. Gay couples-they're fighting an ongoing battle, and it isn't against each other. They're being picked apart by a society that thinks they know whats best but in turn has blood on their hands. When you hear of another child being bullied because of his/her sexual preference, or you hear on the news that another person has committed suicide because of relentless, uninformed banter over who they love, or want to love...I hope you know that soap and water will NOT remove that blood from your hands. I hope you realize that when you fall in love you're not looking at skin color anymore, hell how many cougars and sugar daddys aren't looking at age anymore as a barrier...so why are we looking at sex??? AGAIN LOVE IS LOVE REGARDLESS OF WHERE OR WHEN OR WHO!!!