See George Takei’s poll for heterosexuals

One of my friends pointed out how cool it is to see George Takei, who turns 75 next month, so in the forefront of modern technology with his YouTube videos, tweets and Facebook updates.

He’s at it again with a provocative poll he has posted on Facebook that asks this question of his heterosexual followers: “When did you decide to be straight?”

It certainly should make anyone who thinks being gay is some kind of choice think twice – at least I hope it does!

Takei cleverly offers up several possible answers:

– After an incident of really bad gay sex.

– My parents turned me straight somehow when I was a child.

– What’s the issue? Straights should be allowed to marry anyway.

– I didn’t choose it, I was born this way. Why do you even care?

– I’m still undecided. I’ve heard gay food and clothes are better.

Takei, who played Capt. Sulu on the original Star Trek TV series and feature films, came out publicly as a gay man in 2005. At that point, he had been with longtime partner Brad Altman for 18 years. The couple married in 2008 during a six-month period when such marriages were legal in California.