Rep. James Lankford (R-OK) Gives Me Nightmares Well, you're now dealing with behavior and I'm trying to figure out exactly what you're trying to mean by that. Because you're dealing with - race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff. You don't walk up to someone on the street and look at them and say, "Gay or straight?"