Newt Gingrich, who spent the better part of the 1990′s carrying on an extramarital affair, all while leading a witchhunt against the President for his own marital infidelities, considers himself an expert on choices, apparently. You see, just like you can casually choose to take advantage of your wife’s being in the hospital with cancer and shack up with the newer model, Newt believes that you can simply choose whether or not to be gay. Here he is speaking to the Des-Moines Register:
Q: Do you believe that people choose to be gay?
GINGRICH: I believe it’s a combination of genetics and environment. I think both are involved. I think people have many ranges of choices. Part of the question is, do you want a society which has a bias in one direction or another?
I’d prefer a bias in the direction of reality, Newtie.
Q: So people can then choose one way or another?
GINGRICH: I think people have a significant range of choice within a genetic pattern. I don’t believe in genetic determinism and I don’t think there is any great evidence of genetic determinism. There are propensities. Are you more likely to do this or more likely to do that? But that doesn’t mean it’s definitional.
It’s a sad commentary on the state of affairs in this country when this man is even being asked his “opinion” on the subject, much less having it printed in the newspaper.
Q: So a person can then choose to be straight?
GINGRICH: Look, people choose to be celibate. People choose many things in life. You know, there is a bias in favor of non-celibacy. It’s part of how the species recreates. And yet there is a substantial amount of people who choose celibacy as a religious vocation or for other reasons.
And then there are some people who choose celibacy, but yet end up diddling altar boys.
Here’s the video. It’s particularly gross how he starts talking about “values” at the beginning, since Newt Gingrich is probably one of the most obviously amoral politicians I’ve seen in my lifetime.
The absolute last person I’d ever take moralizing relationship advice from would be *that* piece of dried-up, serial-adultering dog shite.
“You know, there is a bias in favor of non-celibacy.”
Not as well as you do.
The nerve. Expecting people to “choose” celibacy because of your religious views.
Well, just as biology teaches us that homosexuality is NOT a choice, we have to be understand that infidelity is also biological. Newt just can help that his dick jumps out his pants with the next younger trophy wife to be. What is more bothersome is that he does not seem to see that the two are equals with regard of choice…..
Newt has become part of god’s true church on earth under his popery the Ratzinger, so he is entitled to speak with such authority.
Yes, it’s as simple as doughnut or toast with my coffee. These people must have the deadest sexual desires on the planet. When I’m excited, I haven’t noticed any choice about it. And the thought of then doing what doesn’t excite me, doesn’t ever enter my head. He’s playing with words just to appease the idiot believers in his audience. Lord save us from the legions of dopes out there. Why didn’t he decide to not cheat on his wives just because his dick wanted to sink itself into a younger hole?
Ewwwwwwww the thought of sex with Gingrich is enough to make anyone prefer celibacy.
Of course he doesn’t believe our emotional makeup has any value. The creep doesn’t believe COMMITMENT has any value. He probably doesn’t even know what the word means.
Can anyone give me a very specific definition of what homosexuality is? Also, why it can never, under any circumstance, be a choice?
Anyone?
EDH, gayness is the exclusive attraction to the same sex. Although a bisexual person can choose which gender to pursue a relationship with neither a bisexual nor a gay person nor a heterosexual can choose not to have the attractions they do therefore sexual orientation can never under any circumstance be a choice.