Query

I was listening to a morning talk-radio show today, and the on-air personalities were talking about some comments that a player for the Colorado Rockies made on he would feel if he played with a teammate who was openly homosexual. Inevitably, the guy who reports all the sports news for the show made a somewhat offhand comparison between a person who has homosexual tendencies and race. When one considers the presumptions that are involved, why do so many people do this? It would seem to me that if homosexual orientation is equivalent to race or ethnicity, then it should follow that persons of a particular race or ethnicity ought to be expected to behave in a certain manner. But since we all know that this mentality amounts to racism, it absolutley mystifies me why so many people make homosexuality the equivalent of race (unless, of course, they're all racists).