A) A chosen lifestyle
B) Genetic flaw
C) Mental illness
They tell me it's not a choice; now they tell me it's not a gene. So, we're back where we were 40 years ago -- homosexuals suffer from a mental illness and in many cases they can be cured. The biggest roadblock to curing these sick people is the current "sex positive" view of their malady.
Well, actually, it's only WND telling you it's not a gene, so you can take it for what it's worth -- which ain't much.
What the APA is really, saying is that the causes of homosexual behavior are complicated, and that you generally cannot isolate it to any single factor.
Poor Mr. Unruh, however, apparently cannot be bothered with complexities when he's got a deadline and an opinion.
Romans 1:25-27 (NASV)
25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,
27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
In a real sense it is a choice: the choice to reject God and His laws upon which HE [God] then in turn punishes the offender. Its not a genetic flaw (as now proven) but is in fact exactly what the Scriptures have always said it is: SIN. And its not a mental illness. It is willful rejection of God, sin, and judgement.
Pardon me while I leave and put on my flame suit and get ready for the coming Christian concentration camp...........
I opt for #1...
Kelly McGillis decided to “turn gay” after being married to a man,saying she was “done with men”. Although I have long thought that there must be a genetic defect with the Hollywood crowd,I still think homosexuality is a choice,not something one is born with.
If it is not a choice, then how do these homosexuals marry for 10 years, sire kids, and then DECIDE they’ve been living a lie?
If they are repulsed by the idea of being intimate with someone of the opposite sex, they wouldn’t have been able to proceed for so long.
“And some were from the womb”
My observation is the Eunuchs have always coveted the thrones they were inbred to serve.
Regardless of the cause, there is absolutely no evidence that the associated dysfunctional behavior is beneficial to the social and biological fitness of a society that normalizes it.
Nah, what am I thinking? That research would never receive funding.
A) A chosen lifestyle
B) Genetic flaw
C) Mental illness
As a recovering alcoholic, I suspect homosexuality is a very similar pathology to alcoholism. The "nature vs. nurture" debate can be become quite contentious, but is of no value to the afflicted. If I believe that alcoholism is a genetic matter, I can justify continued drinking on the basis that "I was born this way" and my predisposition is not my fault, and simply part of who I am. If I come to believe that it's a strictly behavioral matter, then I can ultimately make the case that I can control my drinking by choice, and justify returning to the bottle. If I view it all as a mental illness, I can obviate my role in the matter, and embrace my *victimhood* while waiting on a purely clinical solution.
You leave out a fourth possibility, which is where I, and countless other alcoholics have found relief and sanity, and where I suspect homosexuals could find similar peace, and that is confronting it as a spiritual issue, where we have sought to fill a void with our deviant, self-destructive behavior.
agreed
I would go with the mental disorder caused by a sexual confusion on how to be satisfied
either way they should not be allowed to have a marriage based on a sexual turn on and should not be allowed to have kids though foster or adoption
Now I do not go north many times but for some reason many white collar elitist folk up in the north east seem to think it is cool being seen with a homo
is it in the water there or are they like the rest of the left who only go with what they are told to think
bump