HOLYFIELD: Being Gay Like Smoking – Still A Choice

<p>OPINION: Wow, it doesn't get any better than this - first comparisons to 'handicap' people and now smokers.</p> <p>by Jake Hook | 13th January 2014</p><p></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.thegayuk.com/communities/8/004/009/928/388/images/4603928906.jpg" width="460" height="260" alt="evander" title="evander"/></p> <p></p><p>The guy doesn't know when to stop does he?</p><p></p><p>Stop with the comparisons to anyone, we're people not insurance websites.</p><p>We don't need to be fixed.</p><p>We were were born this way.</p><p>and some gay people smoke and are disabled...Do those need double or triple fixing?</p><p></p><p>We don't need fixing or your uneducated opinions.</p><p></p><p>In an interview with the Daily Star Sunday, the former boxer said:</p><p>‘If I’d have been thinking I would have said being gay is like smoking. A person chooses to smoke. They aren’t born smoking.’</p><p></p><p>I suppose heterosexual people are born having coitus with the opposite sex then Evander? - What a strange concept.</p><p></p><p>He continued however that he didn't have anything 'against gay people' (except that they need fixing) and that nobody has ever seen him 'gay bashing' (except verbally). </p><p></p><p>Last week, Twitter went into meltdown after Holyfield <a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/Big-Brother-House-Rocked-By-Evander-Holyfield%E2%80%99s-Homophobia/7251089">suggested that being gay wasn't 'normal' and could be fixed</a>. Ofcom received over <a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/magazine/4574334751/NEWS-Holyfield-Homophobic-Remarks-Attract-126-Complaints-To-Ofcom/7271681">126 complaints about the episode</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Evander, say sorry and close your mouth and we can all move on.</p><p></p><p></p><p> </p>