[rcxdude]

This isn't the basis: even if such a thing were a choice there would be no good reason to persecute those who made that choice. Secondly, such things can be immutable or at least very hard to change even if they are not affected by genetics.

[lazide]

There are plenty of ‘good’ reasons to persecute people for making choices like this - like for instance if someone themselves was forced to pretend they weren’t gay, hates themselves and society for it, and is pissed off that someone else might not be forced to do the same.

Or at least that’s what I’ve noticed seems to happen sometimes.

If society feels it’s important that everyone ‘follows the plan’, those folks will be recruited into places of power and give atta-boys every time they make the news, no?

And considering how much (often scary and unfun) work it is to raise kids, and how hard it is to deal with the opposite sex (for both sides), a large portion of the population will happily tell society to go fuck itself and party unless someone like that ‘holds the line’.

Hard for society to grow and be strong when it’s easy to ‘dodge the draft’, as it were.