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"The last thing a mayoral candidate in this town wants to do is to annoy its gay constituents, but that\u2019s precisely what Dennis Herrera did with a poorly chosen word on his campaign website.The offense? His site uses the term \u201Csexual preference\u201D rather than \u201Csexual orientation,\u201D according to an article in the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco\u2019s local weekly that serves The City\u2019s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered communities.The term \u201Csexual preference\u201D is not a preferred term because it implies that people choose to be gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered, while \u201Csexual orientation\u201D implies an innate sexual attraction.According to BAR reporter Matthew S. Bajko, the term initially showed up in two sections of Herrera\u2019s campaign site, where he stated his belief that \u201CSan Francisco should remain an enjoyable and safe place to live and work for people of (sic) regardless of their race, sexual preference, national origin or income.\u201D One of the \u201Cpreferences\u201D was changed as soon as Bajko alerted the campaign to it, but as of noon on Tuesday, the second \u201Cpreference\u201D remains in the \u201COn the Issues\u201D page.Bajko reports that when campaign staffers were initially notified of the gaffe, they described the poor wording as \u201Can oversight.\u201D Apparently not an oversight that they have managed to correct."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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