On his radio program yesterday, Bryan Fischer dedicated multiple segments to dismissing the news that Jason Collins has become the first openly gay athlete to play in the NBA.
Things took a rather odd turn when Fischer started taking calls from listeners, one of whom tried to claim that the fact that gays use discretion in picking sexual partners proves that they can control their behavior and thus being gay is really a choice.
And Fischer agreed, saying “anytime a homosexual exercises any sort of selectivity at all when it comes to intimate matters, he is proving that it is a matter of choice. Nobody is compelled to follow those impulses.”
Of course, by this logic, then being straight must also be a choice, since straight people also exercise selectivity in choosing partners.
But eventually Fischer got back to the topic at hand, asserting that gays celebrate things “that ought to be matters of shame, humiliation, and embarrassment” and criticizing President Obama for supporting Collins and “openly celebrating sexual deviancy, calling evil good and calling good evil”:
