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Open letter to Colorado Republican Senate candidate Ken Buck and people of his ilk

The following email was sent to ken@buckforcolorado.com earlier today with the subject line: "Homosexuality". Dear Mr Buck, I was very interested to hear your recent comments (includes video) about the fact that gay people have a choice. While I would agree that people can accept or refuse to be who they are and decide or not to have same-sex relationships, I am more than a little concerned that you should imply that sexual attraction is a matter of choice. As gay man, this is clearly not my personal experience. I would also find it quite surprising, as you surely will too, that so many people would chose to be gay thus opening themselves to all sort of violence and discrimination (and I am not even mentioning the various countries around the world where such people could be given a death sentence by the state). In any case, if we follow your logic, I think we should all start asking ourselves the question: when did you yourself decide not to be gay? At the end of the day, w