Richard Chamberlain's Gay and Once Did Not Like Himself

ArriveNet ^ | July 7, 2007 | J. Grant Swank, Jr.

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"When I grew up, being gay, being a sissy or anything like that, was verboten," Chamberlain tells NBC. "I disliked myself intensely and feared this part of myself intensely and had to hide it."

It is not pleasant being homosexual.

Ok. The debate is on. Those who say a person is born gay. Those who say a person chooses gay.

So the room heats up with every emotion possible as the two go at it.

Which is it?

Some biblically religious state that God would not make a homosexual. Therefore, the homosexual chooses to be one; therefore, he is at fault at best and at sin at worst.

The 'other side' says that deity has nothing to do with it. A person is born homosexual — period. It's just a fact of biological reality.

Then we have Esera Tuaolo, 34, NFL player for nine years, who reveals that he is homosexual in an HBO interview on "Real Sports".

Athlete tough guy tells the world that he retired early in 1999 because of excessive frustration over keeping to himself his sexual orientation.

He told reporters that "they didn't know who Esera Tuaolo is." He claims that most of his public life was nothing more than acting out a part that was not fact.

Tuaolo, native of Hawaii, went into severe depression over his orientation, so much so that at times when driving at high speeds he contemplated twisting the wheel in the direction of ending-it-all. His head got that bad.

Tuaolo's remarks remind me of Rosie O'Donnell's TV dialogue with Barbara Walters. Rosie stated she was born homosexual. She said that no one would choose that lifestyle for it is laden with too much anguish; in other words, anyone in her right mind would choose heterosexual.

Back to the debate: I side with those who conclude that a person is born homosexual. And that does no disservice to God.

If one reads Genesis' first chapters, these verses state that when God created all things planetary, all was good. But there was a snake in the garden. Eve yielded to the snake's lure. Then Adam. And so both sphere and soul fell, that is, both became severely damaged due to mortals’ disobedience.

That damage impregnates everything, including the sexual nature of male and female.

In the heterosexual, not all is well, for sure. For instance, there is always the striving to return to marital paradise between heterosexual husband and wife. Sometimes it works; sometimes it doesn't.

In the 'original sin' damage dealt to a spiritually fallen world, some mortals are thereby conceived with a homosexual bent--plain and simple. They grow up with that bent. At puberty they sense it come to the fore. As adolescence progresses, it becomes more pronounced.

Most deal with the latter realization with as many emotions as there are homosexuals--confusion, angst, denial, anger, depression, fear, faithlessness, and so forth.

Some 'out' with it; the vast majority live with the secret.

However, if one can understand biblical truth, one can begin to grapple with the spiritual aspect of the situation so as not to blame God. The snake is the one to blame—along with our first parents.

Eve and Adam went for snake's bait. All humans sadly have paid the awful personal price ever since, some being dealt another-than-heterosexual bent.

Bottom-lines according to the Bible:

 Homosexual orientation is not a sin.

 Homosexual practice is a sin.

 Heterosexual practice outside of marriage is a sin.

 Therefore, both homosexual and single heterosexual believers call upon the Holy Spirit’s fruit of discipline to live the victorious spiritual life.

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Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project: "...Sexual orientation is genetically influenced but not hardwired by DNA, and that whatever genes are involved represent predispositions, not predeterminations."

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thanks

[RedMonqey]

Anyway, the posit was that whatever your first, or first of several, pleasurable encounters were would ?imprint? your sexual response.

Don't know about the pleasurable part but I noticed that a lot of homosexuals have been as a child, molested or exposed to an sexual situation at a far earlier period than they were physically or emotionally prepared for.

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...they say it was INHOSPITALITY that brought about such leveling of two major cities!! that is the length to which these enthusiasts will go to condone their sin.

I'm not a theologian but to destroy a city because of INHOSPITALITY is a much lower bar than sexual deviancy .

God definitely needs to either destroy more cities or owe Sodom and Gomorrah an apology /sar.

Liberals are such idiots.