GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain: People choose to be gay
Wed. October 5, 2011 11:54 PM by GoPride.com News Staff
Washington, D.C. -
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain went head to head with the women on "The View" this week over whether people choose to be gay.
"You show me the science that says it's not [a choice] and I could be persuaded," Cain said on Tuesday. "Right now it's my opinion. Others feel differently."
One of the hosts, Joy Behar, took him to task.
"I don't think anybody in this world wants to be gay considering all the vilification that is brought upon someone who is gay," Behar said.
Democrats piled on.
"It's shockingly out of touch and insensitive for him to suggest—outdated, ancient—and sends a terrible message to gay kids, to gay Americans that somehow they should be treated differently and that we don't recognize that sexuality is simply a matter of the way you were born," said Democratic National Committee chairperson Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida).
"Herman Cain's remarks that homosexuality is a choice are, frankly, jaw-dropping and certainly unbecoming of a presidential hopeful," said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese.
"You show me the science that says it's not [a choice] and I could be persuaded," Cain said on Tuesday. "Right now it's my opinion. Others feel differently."
One of the hosts, Joy Behar, took him to task.
"I don't think anybody in this world wants to be gay considering all the vilification that is brought upon someone who is gay," Behar said.
Democrats piled on.
"It's shockingly out of touch and insensitive for him to suggest—outdated, ancient—and sends a terrible message to gay kids, to gay Americans that somehow they should be treated differently and that we don't recognize that sexuality is simply a matter of the way you were born," said Democratic National Committee chairperson Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida).
"Herman Cain's remarks that homosexuality is a choice are, frankly, jaw-dropping and certainly unbecoming of a presidential hopeful," said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese.
