“He says he was born this way. That he’s had these feelings for as long as he can remember.” “Don’t discount his testimony about that,” Gil said. “So you agree it’s not a choice?” “Oh, he’s making choices, all right. But to him it probably feels more complicated than that.” “He said he never woke up and decided he wanted to be this way.” “I’m sure that’s true. No one ever woke up and decided, ‘I want to have a bad temper.’ Or ‘I want to be addicted to pornography.’ You don’t always choose your temptations, but you do choose your behavior.”
