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CNN Poll: Do you think gays and lesbians could change their sexual orientation if they wanted to?
CNN ^ | 6-27-07 | CNN

Posted on 06/27/2007 9:38:10 AM PDT by Arcy

Current vote count:
Yes: 31% No: 69%

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TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: exgays; gay; homosexualagenda; lesbian; recovery; transgender
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To: Sherman Logan
Note that the question implies that you must answer that either ALL can change or NONE can change.

Polls inherently simplify often complex issues, but this one does so in a Big Way.

I agree with your answer.

My clearly novice opinion is that homosexuality seems to be something like alcoholism or other addictions. As such, switching away from it is a very difficult and lengthy process, and likely not successful for everyone who attempts it.

61 posted on 06/27/2007 10:45:31 AM PDT by TChris (The Republican Party is merely the Democrat Party's "away" jersey - Vox Day)
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To: cjohnson1

I agree 100%!

Choose any behavior in the world, anything man can dream up with his own perversion of free will. Can he change ANY of them? To claim he can’t is to refute that man is responsible for his own behavior, he has no free will.


62 posted on 06/27/2007 10:49:14 AM PDT by gidget7 ( Vote for the Arsenal of Democracy, because America RUNS on Duncan!)
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To: Arcy
No, it is impossible for people to restrain their sexual impulses.

< considering implications of this statement>

No, wait...

63 posted on 06/27/2007 10:50:51 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: JerriBlank
Are you saying that homosexuals are actually heterosexual, except for when they are having sex?


You’ve bought into the lie that homosexuality is the equiv of a race, gender. It is a behavior, a deviant behavior. They may define them selves by this behavior but it is a behavior.
64 posted on 06/27/2007 10:53:54 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: Arcy

OH SNAP


65 posted on 06/27/2007 10:55:40 AM PDT by badpacifist (I'm touching the portal of infinite knowledge right now!)
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To: Humvee

“Why would it be any of my business?”

Because, the homosexual activists do not care if it is any of your business or not, they are MAKING it your business. They insist you know about things that should not be discussed in mixed company much less with children! AND they insist upon special rights that take your rights, by enacting them.


66 posted on 06/27/2007 10:56:05 AM PDT by gidget7 ( Vote for the Arsenal of Democracy, because America RUNS on Duncan!)
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To: Arcy

Anne Heche did it.


67 posted on 06/27/2007 10:58:12 AM PDT by TBP
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To: PeterPrinciple
You’ve bought into the lie that homosexuality is the equiv of a race, gender. It is a behavior, a deviant behavior. They may define them selves by this behavior but it is a behavior.

So, people are neither homosexual nor heterosexual except when they are having sex?
68 posted on 06/27/2007 10:58:17 AM PDT by HaveHadEnough
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To: MrEdd
Do you think alcoholics can stop drinking if they want to?

Well, yes. Many have done so. What do you think AA and other such programs are about?

69 posted on 06/27/2007 10:59:34 AM PDT by TBP
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To: PeterPrinciple

“You’ve bought into the lie that homosexuality is the equiv of a race, gender. It is a behavior, a deviant behavior. They may define them selves by this behavior but it is a behavior.”

Well, I have to disagree with that. I think they’re gay whether or not they engage in any behavior. It is the desire to have sex with someone of the same gender that makes them “gay”.

I very much doubt it is a choice.


70 posted on 06/27/2007 11:01:34 AM PDT by JerriBlank
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To: Sherman Logan
Some can, some probably can’t.

I think that is likely correct. While I think the evidence shows that there is a hereditary factor (i.e., not all people could be homosexual if they wanted to), I think it also shows that there is some external, environmental trigger that sets off the predisposition (i.e., not all who are geentically programmed to be homosexual are homosexual.)

71 posted on 06/27/2007 11:02:02 AM PDT by TBP
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To: elizabetty
Could CNN report unbiased news, if they really wanted to?

Well, they hve been lying and distorting so long that I'm not sure the capacity is there anymore, or if it is, it's buried so deeply that they would neer be able to find it.

72 posted on 06/27/2007 11:04:47 AM PDT by TBP
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To: Arcy
There is no genetic test or procedure (experimental or otherwise) that can determine one's sexual orientation. When people claim to be gay and we believe them, what we're really doing is taking them at their word. We believe their claim, we believe their testimony and we believe their declaration that they are gay.

But there are some people who are suddenly skeptical when one claims to be ex-gay. They don't believe the ex-gay claim, they don't believe the ex-gay testimony nor their declaration that they are ex-gay.

When somebody uses a certain standard to measure the credibility of what one group says, but then refuses to use the same standard to measure the credibility of what another group says--thereby ignoring the claims of the second group (ex-gays)--he should ask himself why he believes one group and not the other... This is a double standard.

73 posted on 06/27/2007 11:13:47 AM PDT by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: Arcy

How about this for a follow up? If you responded Yes to the question, would you let your duaghter a men who had changed his orientation?


74 posted on 06/27/2007 11:25:10 AM PDT by NC28203
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To: JerriBlank
I very much doubt it is a choice.

Do people chose to be drug addicts? Do people chose to murder? Do people chose to molest a child? Do people chose to lie?

It is a behavior but they won’t admit it was their choices that led them to where they are. Our society currently says someone else is at fault. Whether an alcoholic or excon, once they stop blaming someone else, they are on their way to recovery, never easy though.

Unfortunately it is also true that many if not all homos have been molested. It is someone elses evil choice that has influenced the situation they are it. There may be genetic, environmental influences in a few cases but it is still a behavior.

Never forget that this is a behavior, nothing else. Do not be led astray by their lies.

If you think they don’t have a choice and they can’t help it, Then you have to be tolerant of a lot of other behaviors such as child molestation and we are already moving toward accepting that behavior. Why is smoking evil but homosexuality good? You have been convinced of this by the media.

75 posted on 06/27/2007 11:32:37 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

“Never forget that this is a behavior, nothing else. Do not be led astray by their lies.”

But it’s NOT. Any more than it is just behavior that makes a person heterosexual... that is not true.

Jim McGreevy was gay during his entire marriage, that includes the times he was in the act of making children with his wife.

Sorry, I don’t think we are going to agree here. I don’t believe it is a choice, and I believe that there is genetic pre-disposition.

Of course, neither side can be proven. Just basing this on my talks with others.


76 posted on 06/27/2007 11:54:19 AM PDT by JerriBlank
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To: HaveHadEnough

Shhhhhhh! LOL!


77 posted on 06/27/2007 11:56:50 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: NC28203

Sorry, it should have read.

How about this for a follow up? If you responded Yes to the question, would you let your daughter date a man who had changed his orientation?


78 posted on 06/27/2007 12:04:05 PM PDT by NC28203
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To: PeterPrinciple
You know the expression, "I've lusted in my heart."

Is lusting in one's heart a behavior? Does the object of that lust, male or female, help define whether a person is heterosexual or homosexual?
79 posted on 06/27/2007 12:05:27 PM PDT by HaveHadEnough
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