Religious belief is clearly a choice. It may be a choice your parents made for you, or a choice your grandparents made for you, but it is a choice. (What are all those Mormon missionaries doing out there? They're trying to get you to choose their religion.) Discriminating against people based on their choice of religious belief is illegal and should be illegal. Arguing that gay people shouldn't complain about discrimination because we can "choose to be straight" is like arguing that Jewish people shouldn't complain about anti-Semitism because they can "choose to be baptized."
-- Dan Savage, American Savage, p. 69
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