I agree with you, but I think the line of thought is more along the lines of "you are born straight and you choose to be gay, and the obvious badness of that choice makes you a deviant". That requires a different counter - and it's not going to be an intellectual one.
It was once not uncommon for big thinkers to believe that animals can't suffer. They had lots of intellectual justifications for that. But people who have a dog know they can. To most of us it seems silly to suggest they cannot. But it's easy to fall for the nonsense if you don't ever spend time with animals.
As more people know people that they know are gay (they've always known gay people), they will just see how obvious it is that it's a choice. I think this is a viral effect, put loosely. The more acceptance there is, the more acceptance there will be. And a tipping point, if you can pick a precise time, I believe happened earlier this year (at least in the US).
It was once not uncommon for big thinkers to believe that animals can't suffer. They had lots of intellectual justifications for that. But people who have a dog know they can. To most of us it seems silly to suggest they cannot. But it's easy to fall for the nonsense if you don't ever spend time with animals.
As more people know people that they know are gay (they've always known gay people), they will just see how obvious it is that it's a choice. I think this is a viral effect, put loosely. The more acceptance there is, the more acceptance there will be. And a tipping point, if you can pick a precise time, I believe happened earlier this year (at least in the US).