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To: meyer
"Sexual orientation is a choice, not a state of being."

You sure? I don't really feel like I chose.

How sure are you?

13 posted on 09/29/2004 7:57:39 PM PDT by Nova
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To: Nova
You sure? I don't really feel like I chose.

Having sex is a choice in itself. The selection of a partner is also a choice.

18 posted on 09/29/2004 8:04:25 PM PDT by meyer (Proud member of the Pajamarazzi!)
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To: Nova; meyer
"Sexual orientation is a choice, not a state of being."

You sure? I don't really feel like I chose.

How sure are you?

On the question of choice, it must be noted that all sex but being the victim of rape is voluntary and thus every sexual act involves a conscious choice. A person's inclination toward a form of sexual conduct may not, for any number of reasons, be consciously chosen, but the mere existence of desire does not justify the act. To accept otherwise would be to validate adultery, incest and pedophilia. Society has the right to require people to suppress harmful desires, even if it is difficult for them to do so.

Since the "gay" movement can't prove it, the assertion that homosexuals are "born that way" remains nothing but a hypothesis: one which provides no justification for abandoning long-standing, experience-tested social policies. Remember, society doesn't have to prove that homosexuality is not innate. "Gay" activists are the ones attempting to change things and the burden of proof is theirs.

Nevertheless, there is plenty of evidence that homosexuality is not innate. There is a very considerable body of testimony from tens of thousands of men and women who once lived as homosexuals. These ex-"gays" have renounced their former lifestyles and many have become heterosexual in self-identification and desire, while others have stopped at the point of comfort with their own gender and freedom from same-sex desires. The "gay" movement's challenge to former homosexuals to, in essence, prove they aren't still innately "gay" is the height of absurdity since homosexual immutability was never proven in the first place.

Why is the question of immutability so important? Because if homosexuality is not innate, it must be acquired. And if it can be acquired, we dare not allow homosexuality to be legitimized to our children. If there remains any shadow of doubt as to the cause of homosexuality, we must err on the side of protecting our children. Indeed we must actively discourage them from viewing homosexuality as safe and normal, when in fact it is demonstrably neither safe nor normal. It bears noting here that normalcy is functioning according to nature or design. Normalcy is not based on popular opinion.

25 posted on 09/29/2004 8:27:07 PM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K (G W B 2004! Friends Don't Let Friends Vote For DemocRATS)
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