Back in 1977 when Gallup first asked why people thought gays were gay and lesbians were lesbians — otherwise known as “nature vs nurture” — a substantial majority of Americans knew it was their upbringing and environment. Back then, 56 percent said that and only 13 percent said it was a birth trait.
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I think it’s mental illness.
No, it’s basic stupidity...
“Born that way” implies a genetic trait, like hair color, eye shape, skin tone, or any other host of inherited characteristics. If one accepts the Darwinistic Theory of Adaptation, you accept certain premises to support that theory. One of those premises is that traits which prevent or inhibit an organism from passing down that trait to its offspring will, after a few generations, die off.
There are fewer traits around more effective than “mating” with your own sex to prevent traits from being passed down to offspring... Two men do not have any way of producing offspring with each other. Any “gay gene” would have been wiped away long ago by the genetic dead ends that gene would produce.
Then there is the case of men and women in marriages that even produce children, when one of the partners finally “discovers” they are gay, or becomes “tired of living a lie”. I barely comprehend a man perceiving another man the same way I perceive an attractive woman, but for the sake of argument, I can grasp it. It would then follow that a gay man would perceive a woman, no matter how attractive, the same way I perceive a man — ugly and with nothing that would stimulate desire in me. Yet, those poor souls were able to perform with a woman.
Finally, there is the case of incarceration, where same sex encounters happen, often between men that have attractive girlfriends or wives that visit them and are waiting for their release. How in the hell does that happen?
Nah, this is voluntary behavior from sick individuals that have a form of mental illness. They don’t need condemnation; they need help.