Research fuels religious debate over homosexuality

Science & Theology News ^ | May 5, 2006 | Shoshana Kordova

[thehumanlynx]

There is nothing that will change my sexual attractions. Gay sex is gross,

Although I recognize the effort to continually be masculine at all times, as such, I would probably say the same things at times.. but...
If you were inundated with homosexuality constantly for years and years, it was glorified, you were told that it was okay and even desirable, your wife cheated on you and left you, you were forced to move to key west where all the happiest people you knew were gay adn so on and so on... It is completely arrogant to believe that you alone are capable of being unaffected by certain things. How many people never believe they would cheat on their wife but start to flirt (innocently) and it escalates to a 4 month affair? You are not so special that you are so deadset in a mindset that it couldnt change. Many things can change over time.

That is the way sin works, it starts out small and what was once just a little mistake has snowballed and you end up in a place that you never thought you would be

And although it is unlikely that I would ever switch to craving some homo sex, it is possible because I am fallible. I am not immune to making mistakes and neither are you.

Gay people act in a way that they choose to. You can go out and be gay for a night if you want and then go back to your wife, and you were just as gay as the lifelong homo. Its a choice to live a life in defiance of nature and more importantly God.

[RHINO369]

Its not being masculine, its telling the truth. Gay people obviously are drawn to being gay from something. Because almost all of them weren't raised in some gay paradise, they were raised in comparable living conditions as I was.

You couldn't pay me enough money to have sex with a man, but I'd probably have sex with the ugliest woman in the world for 1000 bucks.

[Quix]

AMEN! CONTRATS ON YOUR STAND.

More power to you.

And may God lead you and His best mate to each other in His best timing. And may you have the most fulfilling Friendship possible the rest of your natural days.

[gondramB]

>>If you were inundated with homosexuality constantly for years and years, it was glorified, you were told that it was okay and even desirable, your wife cheated on you and left you, you were forced to move to key west where all the happiest people you knew were gay adn so on and so on... It is completely arrogant to believe that you alone are capable of being unaffected by certain things. How many people never believe they would cheat on their wife but start to flirt (innocently) and it escalates to a 4 month affair? You are not so special that you are so deadset in a mindset that it couldnt change. Many things can change over time.<<

I went to Rocky Horror for years had lots of gay friends and live in the city with highest concentration of Gays where lots of them seem quite happy - I watched Queer as folk (for a couple of years before it got lame and Will and Grace. I've been able to examine my sexuality in a nonjudgmental atmosphere and this allowed me to be quite sure I have not ever felt any inclination whatsoever to be gay.

So no, for me I don't think it could change. Other people are apparently bisexual and have a choice.

Besides, give all the influences you cite, if homosexuality was controlled by environment the number of gays should be sky rocketing.

[thehumanlynx]

ok nevermind, the point is that its a choice and you or anyone else could choose to do it at any one point.

Other people... ALL of them have a choice. Congrats on being above the influence, and never having your worldview altered in the slightest way.

[gondramB]

>>Other people... ALL of them have a choice. Congrats on being above the influence, and never having your worldview altered in the slightest way.<<

I'm sorry if it sounded that way- of course I am indfluenced by what goes on around me. But on this one topic, and speaking only for myself, I have found heterosexuality to be a core part of who I am am ratheer than a choice. But since I have know quite a few bisexuals (mainly women but also a few men) so I understand that not everyone is like me on this.

[thehumanlynx]

I am blantantly heterosexual as well, repulsed by all things gay (unlike you) but I recognize that under certain circumstances, albeit extreme ones, the potential for me to do some gay experimenting still exists. As it does for you, that is all I am saying. Doing those things may be the last thing either one of us would consider, but in a certain environment it could happen. Thats all I am saying...

I just find that people, guys especially, tend to heartily say "NO NO NO WAY, never me" it just seems illogical and arrogant.

Take pornography for example. A person may think that is disgusting as they drive by a prostitute or a strip club, thinking that it is deplorable. But they look at SI swimsuit one day, that turns into MAXIM magazine, which turns into playboy, which leads to the cess pool of the internet where they get caught up in a vile disgusting world that they would have NEVER thought they could get into, and so on...

That sort of thing happens. Thats all I'm saying. Now I have forgotten what the original story was even about.. LOL have good one.

[gondramB]

>>As it does for you, that is all I am saying. Doing those things may be the last thing either one of us would consider, but in a certain environment it could happen. Thats all I am saying...<<

I can't by logic rule that out. All I can say is that I have not ever felt same sex attraction and growing in Atlanta I have been exposed plenty. I would think it would have come up by now but I understand your point.

[thehumanlynx]

Thats all I was saying. And I was pretty amazed the first time I drove through Atlanta at the number of gay establishments that littered the side of the road. Glad we could figure one another out. Until our next meeting, have a nice life.