[jagusafr]

Chosen. Questions?

[soroptimist]

"Research suggests that the homosexual orientation is in place very early in the life cycle, possibly even before birth. It is found in about ten percent of the population, a figure which is surprisingly constant across cultures, irrespective of the different moral values and standards of a particular culture." Statement on Homosexuality, American Psychological Association, 1994-JUL.

[jagusafr]

Sorry, that looked a little flippant.

1. Sexuality, at its core, is all about biology: sex is at its most basic, for procreation. No two men, nor any two women, can ever naturally conceive and bear a child. That makes homosexuality abnormal in the TECHNICAL sense of the world, not as a statement of condemnation.

2. Every homosexual (I’m sorry, it’s the farthest thing from a “gay” lifestyle, as that term is properly defined) I’ve ever known or known of was the victim of abuse of some sort as a child, or grew up in a dysfunctional home wherein the father figure was absent, abusive or dysfunctional.

3. They’ve been (those who do this sort of research) looking for the “gay gene” for years and years. All attempts have failed. Ipso facto, until somebody comes up with completely new research, this question has been answered in the negative.

4. Your “20 million” figure is somebody’s WAG. There is no support - and I mean NO support - for it. The Kinsey report has been completely discredited.

Bottom line, for me at least, is that homosexuality stems from abuse, and that homosexual conduct is a choice, and (given my Christian beliefs) that homosexual conduct is morally represensible under any conceivable set of circumstances. IT DOESN’T MAKE THE DOER OF THE DEED EVIL! Love the sinner and hate the sin, no matter how mad it makes the homosexual activists, IS the only way to look at this issue.

Colonel, USAFR

[Valpal1]

Combination of mental and character defects and unfortunate childhood history. Every gay person I have ever known was a mess, had a messy past and was often histrionic and narcissistic.

I don’t know if they choose the feelings, but they most certainly choose to act on them. They choose to be flamboyant or not, etc.

Hell, I stifle my inclinations every day and choose not to kill people, so don’t tell me they don’t choose to act on their impulses. Of course they choose.

Internal angst and suffering is not an excuse for external behaviors. People always have a choice.

(Unless you attack me or mine, then I have no choice but to kill you.)

[Texas_shutterbug]

I don't think it's chosen. I also don't think it's genetic.

I think it's something that happens to the unborn child in the uterus. Hormones.