Posted on 11/13/2004 7:47:12 PM PST by Former Military Chick
Thank you for your post!
Does my heart good to hear the truth spoken.
You have nailed it, and quite succinctly, at that. Good job.
Here we go again...
Listen, no one forces you to be gay. Everyone has a choice to act out as a sodomite or not to.
NO one is forced!
I'm saying the vast majority of them lead lives in the same manner as everyone else -- trying to make the most of the hand dealt to them.
I don't know why people act the way they do. There is a book out there called Why They Kill (Richard Rhodes) that discusses one theory in regards to violent criminals. The brain is such a delicate instrument, who can tell what screws up the wiring or the chemistry? But it's a field well worth exploring.
"trying to make the most of the hand dealt to them."
they chose. No one forced them to be homosexuals.
I think the gene we all share to some extent is the gene that makes us ethically lazy and compels us to avoid responsability for our own actions. It's only the creativity and courage with which we strive to overcome our earthbound nature that makes us true humans. Stuff like the god gene and the gay gene and the obesity gene are just ways for setting ourselves up with an excuse to fail.
Why do people choose to rob banks when they know that will make their lives "...markedly more difficult"?
Why do some people choose to cheat on school tests when they know if they get caught it will make their lives "...markedly more difficult."?
Why do people choose to do all sorts of things that they know will eventually make their lives more difficult?
Because "A gene made me do it"? No, because they are weak and made a bad choice.
So, by that logic -- anyone can decide they want to be gay? Some guy comes home from a bad date and says, "This whole woman thing isn't working out, I think I'll turn gay." And the next day he's gay. I don't buy that.
This guy's gay gene theory is not being taken as seriously as it had been so he has to come up with something new and shocking to get his name back in the news.
Letters after one's name no longer has the credibility associated with it as it once had, and that's probably a good thing.
"Why do people choose to rob banks when they know that will make their lives "...markedly more difficult"?"
Robbing banks does NOT make the lives of the robbers more dificult, on the contray, it makes their lives much easier with the money they robbed.
This is scientific research, it's not written in stone. The guy publishes a paper about god genes or gay genes and some other guy reads the paper and does his own research. He finds it's a gene combined with specific neural pathways and he writes a paper. Some other guy reads the paper and finds, yeah, its a gene with specific neural pathways and certain kinds of conditioning, and he writes a paper...that's the way science progresses.
"So, by that logic -- anyone can decide they want to be gay?"
No. You don't choose happiness. If you look for happiness you won't find it; if you look for God you will find happiness.
OTOH, homosexuals do choose to be homos.
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