Of course it is a choice to decide to have sex with a person of the same sex. It is a bad choice. It is a mortally sinful choice. But, it is a choice.
Arguing otherwise is a bold declaration that there is no such thing as Free Will.
As for the person Hirono, it is ALWAYS a good idea to watch and listen to her as she is flat out crazy and highly entertaining.
As a typical liberal she thinks speech is more consequential than action.
That is, according to this person, who like on some of the Hawaiian Islands she represents must occasionally suffer from eruptions inside her noggin, it is not a choice to decide to have sex with another person of the same sex but it is a choice to speak and some words are verboten and a person like her will insist the persons speaking certain words are wrong to speak them.
Yes, one can chose to speak but one can not not have sex with a person of the same sex.
Of course, Barret, sadly, apologised.