CNN political commentator Sally Kohn has stirred controversy with an op-ed in The Washington Post titled "I'm Gay. And I Want My Kid To Be Gay, Too."

Even her friends are taken aback by her position, with one asking, "Don’t you want her to be happy?"

"Perhaps he just meant that it’s easier to be straight in a homophobic culture," writes Kohn, "But this attitude complies with, even reinforces, that culture in the first place."

Kohn also believes being a lesbian has its advantages:

Being gay opened my eyes to the world around me. Learning that not every gay person had it as good as I did helped me realize that a lot of people in general didn’t have it as good as I did. I wouldn’t be a politically engaged human being, let alone an activist, writer and TV personality, if I weren’t gay.

If my daughter is gay, I don’t worry about her having a hard life. But I do worry about people expecting her to have a hard life—helping to perpetuate discrimination that might otherwise fade more quickly."

Kohn ultimately wants what is best for her daughter—an environment that allows for any path in life.

"I want my daughter to know that being gay is equally desirable to being straight," she writes. "The problem is not the idea that homosexuality could be a choice, but the idea that heterosexuality should be compulsory."