"The New Normal: Redefining Traditional"

"The New Normal:" a show on prime-time television that is "redefining traditional," as it regards the traditional family.  This show is based on the story of a gay couple in a commited relationship who has decided to have a child from a surrogate mother.  I won't even get into how this show debases women by seeing them simply as breeders, and children as nothing but a commodity.  No, I'm just sticking to the racial issue.

One of the lines here says: "I know somebody else from a non-tradtional family:a 'halfrican' American who was raised by a grandma... your definition of 'traditional' might need a refresh."

This line is meant to imply that the term "non-traditional family" should include gay couples.  As one who comes from a "non-traditional family" -- black step-father and white mother -- I resent this comparison.  This clip equates race with sexual orientation.

I am not a scientist, so I have no opinion on the "nature/nurture" debate; but to say that one's sexual orientation -- a characteristic that connotes action, in other words, one must choose to act upon one's sexual preference-- is the same in kind as the color of one's skin -- a thing that is unalterable by the act of the will -- cheapens the human understanding of sexuality and ethnicity. 

Sexuality must be actualized by the will, and because of this, is one of the most humanized actions we are capable of doing.  In other animals, it is simply instinct.  Whether or not one is born with homosexual tendencies does not take from him the ability to choose to act upon his sexuality.  He can choose to reject it, accept it, flaunt it, suppress it... etc.  Choice defines this aspect of our lives. 

But a person born of a certain ethnicity does not have the ability to choose anything about his race.  He simply is black, white, latino, asian... etc.  Sure, you can try to change things -- the way you dress, how you act, even cosmetic changes.  But you can't act upon your ethnicity.