Posted on 09/14/2011 1:00:46 PM PDT by ReformationFan
In an astonishing column published in the winger-left publication, "The Atlantic," openly "queer woman" (her words) Lindsay Miller says flatly, "In direct opposition to both the mainstream gay movement and Lady Gaga, I would like to state for the record that I was not born this way."
Tellingly, she argues that saying people are "born this way" is a form of condescension, and she resents it mightily. "I get frustrated with the veiled condescension of straight people who believe that queers 'can't help it,' and thus should be treated with tolerance and pity."
I've got news for Ms. Miller — it's not straights saying that you can't help it, it is your co-belligerents in the homosexual movement. In the pro-family movement, we entirely agree with you that sexual behavior in the end is always a matter of choice. We have no condescension towards you in the least — we regard you as men and women made in the image of God who are perfectly capable of making responsible and mature decisions regarding your sexuality.
Ms. Miller concludes her piece by saying, "The life I have now is not something I ended up with because I had no other options. Make no mistake — it's a life I chose."
Homosexual activists must be seething at this point, since Ms. Miller has blown their entire civil rights argument — we're just like blacks — to smithereens. Blacks did not choose to be black. Race is immutable, assigned at birth. But homosexuality is not immutable and it is not fixed at birth. Ms. Miller has chosen lesbianism, which means she is perfectly capable of choosing sexual normalcy if she becomes so inclined.
Ms. Miller confirms what Colin Powell said long ago, that the comparison between race and sexual preference is "convenient but invalid."
It's time to send the "born that way" myth to the graveyard of misbegotten ideas, buried in the plot next to the myth that the sun revolves around the earth.
And we don't just need to take Lindsay Miller's word for it. Psychiatrists William Byne and Bruce Parsons wrote in Archives of General Psychiatry (March 1993) that, "Critical review shows the evidence favoring a biologic theory to be lacking ... In fact, the current trend may be to underrate the explanatory power of extant psychosocial models." In other words, nurture plays a greater role in sexual preference than homosexual activists want you to believe.
As Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council points out, rigorous studies of identical twins have now made it impossible to argue seriously for the theory of genetic determination. If homosexuality were fixed at birth, as the misguided thinking of homosexual activists goes, then if one twin is homosexual, the other should be as well. The "concordance rate" should be 100%.
But it's not. One early proponent of the "born that way" thesis, Michael Bailey, conducted a study on a large sample of Australian twins and discovered to his chagrin that the concordance rate was just 11%.
Peter Bearman and Hannah Bruckner, researchers from Columbia and Yale, looked at data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and found concordance rates of just 6.7% for male and 5.3% for female identical twins.
They determined that social environment was of far greater significance, and their research led them to reject "genetic influence independent of social context" as an explanation for homosexuality. They concluded, "..[O]ur results support the hypothesis that less gendered socialization in early childhood and preadolescence shapes subsequent same-sex romantic preferences."
As Sprigg observes, "If it was not clear in the 1990's, it certainly is now — no one is 'born gay.'"
The implications, of course, of this simple truth are far-reaching. If homosexual behavior is a choice, then our public policy can freely be shaped by an honest look at whether this behavioral choice is healthy and should be encouraged or unhealthy and dangerous and consequently discouraged.
The elevated health risks associated with homosexuality are by now so well established that not even homosexuals pretend otherwise. The Gay and Lesbian Medical Association warns that active homosexuals are at elevated risks of HIV/AIDS, substance and alcohol abuse, depression and anxiety, hepatitis, a whole range of STDs such as syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, pubic lice, Human Papilloma Virus, and anal papilloma, and prostate, testicular and colon cancer.
Bottom line: this is not behavior that any rational society should condone, endorse, subsidize, reward, promote or sanction in domestic policy or in the marketplace. It's a choice, and a bad one at that. It's long past time for our culture to say a simple and direct "No" to homosexuality and the homosexual agenda.
IMO, some are. I remember some queer telling me that nobody in his right mind would choose that lifestyle, considering all the hate and disgust heaped upon its practitioners. When you seen people in high positions who have much to lose soliciting sex in a public restroom, for instance, that's telling me the inborn sexual preferences are kicking in.
Yes, the entire gay movement is a lie and a con. And the straight community pays for it in millions of lives defaced, devalued, and foreshortened by homosexuals who knowingly and opportunistically approach and sexualize inexperienced straight kids -- which accounts for at least half of homosexual men, and most of the lesbian population.
Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen knew it when they wrote their snarky, snickering "Overhauling Straight America" in The Guide, the series of articles that later became After the Ball; and Evan Wolfson, formerly of Lambda Legal, knew it every time he stood up in open court with a straight face to argue the "essentialist" civil-rights-movement drivel, to get courts to agree with him and gavel down the People of the United States.
There is a genetic predisposition, though, because identical twins are more likely to be of the same sexual orientation than fraternal ones. The genetic component is not the main factor, though, and even less so for women than men.
God states very clearly that homosexuality is a sin, wrong and an abomination. He rejects this perverted lifestyle choice. (see Sodom and Gomorrah)
God disagrees with your insane belief.
Researchers from the 1960's who worked on "reparative therapy" ideas with homosexuals (men, most usually), would agree with you, that in about 30% of cases, male homosexuals appear to be "hard-wired" or "essentially" or "biologically" oriented.
Bieber and others who had done such research were frozen out after the homosexual coup d'etat in the mental-health profession in 1972-3, and their work was "officially" discredited -- politically.
Even 10 years ago, however, a substantial plurality, around 40%, of mental-health professionals were still of the opinion, after 30 years of campaigning, propagandization, and dragooning of outliers, that psychological factors were determinant in homosexuality, overwhelmingly so in lesbianism.
Do you have knowledge of their home life?
Who did their parent(s) hang with?
Unless you personally know about their family life style you can only assume that they were "born that way".
My observation is that male gays are identified with domineering mothers who don’t nurture or value male traits in their boys, and often with the lack of a strong male role model in their lives. As these boys grow they don’t know how to be boys. At first, while younger, they may prefer to play with girls. They may feel intimidated by normal boys. Later they see other boys like themselves and tend to identify and socialize with them. By this time they may feel intimidated by girls. Have you noticed that there seems to be more male gays than there was years ago? It is probably because more boys are raised in the manner described above. No, male gays are not born that way. I do not favor discrimination or hatred against self identified gays. However, being gay is just a behavior exhibited by some people and is not a separate category of humans requiring special status in our laws, imo.
It’s a product of Marxist thought and presuppositions to believe that they are “born that way”.
Marxist materialism assumes that humans and their behaviors are nothing more than matter in motion and that they really have no choice but to react in specific ways to given inputs.
The left has intentionally suppressed data from studies showing that homosexual tendencies among those sexually abused as children and those raised in same-sex households are much higher than in the general population.
It’s not exactly nuture.. It’s recruitment.
“Look at prior societies in which homosexuality was pretty much common. The ancient Greeks, the Turks, the Imperial Romans, etc. It COULDN’T have been genetic in those societies as it was rare BEFORE it became common and became rare afterwards - the cultural factor here.”
My world view is that man is a fallen, sinful creature. Left unchecked to his own devices he will sink to low levels of degeneration - as was the case with Romans and Greeks. As children of Adam, we are ALL born with a degenerate nature that makes us prone to sin and perversion. Does that give us an excuse to do so...no it does not.
People are born with various propensities to sin,
be it covetousness, thievery, dishonesty, or sexual depravity.
It is still the responsibility of the individual to reject or indulge their sin nature.
9. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10. nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11. Such WERE some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
It is not outside the realm of possibility that an individual is born with a predisposition towards some type of behavior or development of some malady. But, a blanket assumption that when a person is born their genetic code determines all aspects of human behavior is preposterous. This ideology completely disregards that human beings are capable of self-determination. Try proposing this to a liberal, though.
IIRC, Tammy Bruce says the same thing. I believe I read she said she was a lesbian “by choice”.
While I don’t reject your statement, re-read exodus please, it was not just the sexually debauchery that brought about their harsh but just judgement. They were unjust in every aspect of society. If having imoral consentual carnal knowlegde were enough for sodom and gomorah how much more should the punishment be for us.
As I stated, God was very clear in BOTH the Old and New testaments - homosexuality is an abomination.
I defer to Him and His judgement.
Not necessarily. Many people in high positions have personality problems. Or overly developed egos or whatever you wish to label it. They usually have the It's All About Me! attitude and gravitate toward the danger zone. Same as with many gays. They crave attention and being a flaming in your face queen gets them attention. There's a stigma against gays so that's the danger zone they seek out. Being in a straight relationship doesn't get them the emotional high or the attention because that's considered the norm.
Or maybe they're just debauched perverts who think they can get away with it.
Like a certain former president and a certain former congressman from NY-9.
I’ve never cared whether they were born that way or not. Being born a certain way or another doesn’t automatically make one normal.
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