Yes, there’s more to it than that and it’s quite stupid and also quite bigoted. Republicans don’t need to know that. They didn’t and won’t read his book anyway.

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      I’m aware of this, but again, people don’t always figure themselves out the first time. We are messy beasts.

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        Right, but the reason he’s saying this at all is to try and make the claim that it is a choice, and that he simply changed his choice. Not that he found his real self without societal pressure.

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        OK but that is not the same thing as making a choice to be gay. That is the entire point. What he said insinuates that it is a choice.

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          I guess what I’m saying is that I don’t doubt the facts of the story, even if I doubt the conclusion he reached.