One reporter reacts to JKR's revelations

[Tonks]

> Churchmouse:
The Catholic Church and the pope say that being Gay may be genetic, 
but those that are should not act on it, and those that are not 
should treat everyone fairly and without persecution.  I don't have 
to know anything else.  
> 
> 
> ***Katie: Um...I'm Catholic. And my church has a gay and lesbian 
> ministry. And there are gay and lesbian couples who have kids that 
> attend mass every Sunday. I'm not sure what you're trying to say 
> here. 

Tonks:
The teaching of the RC church and what it might practice in some 
more liberal parishes are two different things.
 
 
> ***Katie: 
> Being gay is NOT a choice. Did you or I choose to be heterosexual? 
> No. We were born that way - hard-wired to like the opposite sex. 
Gay people are hard-wired to like the same sex. That's how God made 
them, so how on earth could he disapprove? That's my opinion, 
anyway. 

Tonks:

Actually being gay is a very complex thing involving things that 
happen before birth and after. But I agree that it is not a choice. 

On the subject of choice, I wonder why no one has picked up on the 
problem with DD being gay and his pronouncement on 'choice'. I can 
see some people putting two and two together and saying that yes, DD 
was born gay and when he realized it, and it went badly, he chose to 
be celibate. Like the teaching of the RC church. I would think that 
this would take the whole subject in a direction that JKR did not 
intend.