Gay Democrats rebuke Palin for saying homosexuality is a "choice"

01 October 2008 @ 03:55 pm EDT

A national group of homosexual Democrats condemned Sarah Palin on Wednesday for arguing that homosexuality is a "choice" and claimed Senator John McCain chose a "poor" running mate.

"For Governor Palin to suggest that individuals randomly choose their sexual orientation based on nothing but a whim is wrong and it repeats the talking points of the anti-gay special interests which continue to control the McCain/Palin campaign and the Republican Party, " said John Hoadley, executive Director of National Stonewall Democrats on a statement.

Palin and CBS' News anchor Katie Couric talked about homosexuality at the last of a series of interviews aired Tuesday. Palin said she wasn't going to judge Americans and the "decisions" that they made in their "adult personal relationships."

"I have one of my absolute best friends for the last 30 years who happens to be gay and I love her dearly," Palin said. "And she is not my gay friend, she is one of my best friends who happens to have made a choice that isn't a choice that I have made."

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