I believe Hollyweird is making it seem "cool" to be a homosexual. It's the "in" thing. But I'm out.
I have to disagree. I've known a few guys in grade school who were fruity even back then. They then grew up to be full blown homos (no pun intended, well,,,,maybe). You could pick em out even back then.
I imagine that many have heard the phrase "why would someone choose to be gay...." many times. I know that I have heard it countless times. Just thought that I would post a thread which deals with this.
For whomever is interested, here's the link to the scientific studies which show that gays aren't "born that way."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1300464/posts
How, and when did the term gay start being applied to homosexuals?
Every homosexual that I personally know is anything but gay. Most are downright miserable.
For the same reason some choose to have sex with sheep.
I believe Hollyweird is making it seem "cool" to be a homosexual. It's the "in" thing. But I'm out.
Rather than be seen as failures and freaks in a normal society, they choose to become part of a sub-culture that celebrates freaks.
I was it was a poll about if you agree with the war or not, this is too vauge, but I voted anyway.
Good argument, but still has holes--like the guy who pointed out that you can spot "them" at a young age.
For the better singles mixers on Wednesday nights????
Mazel Tov!
Really?
You think heterosexuality was a choice you made?
Interesting.....for me it just came naturally.
How old were you when you realized that you wanted to be straight, and that the gay lifestyle had no appeal to you?
Did you have your doubts, as no doubt many adult Republicans had their teen flirtations with leftist ideals?
Do you think you could have been dissauded from your eventual choice by persuasive arguments, perhaps even by an offer of cash or preferment?
Are you sure you're set in your ways now, or is it still a matter of choice, akin to one's chosen career or pastime?
For me, I think I was born straight, but maybe I'm ust a hardwired and inflexible freak.
Maybe they just like it better that way, who knows
The problem is that sexual preferences are not really a rational choice, and the thing about homosexuality is that it is a disordered sexuality.
The various factors you posted, which correlate homosexuality with other factors, make it clear that there is a significant psychological component to it. It's simply not like changing computers, or changing from a Windows machine to Linux or Mac.
Trying, as you have, to essentially fob it off as a "market choice" is a loser from the get-go. There are deep-seated psychological issues at work here, and it's ridiculous to pretend that they don't exist.
The thing you need to address is not the disorder itself, but rather what has resulted from the attempt to make people believe that homosexual behavior is a normal, acceptable expression of sexuality. It is quite clearly not that. The "gay lobby" is part -- perhaps the leading element -- of the "no big deal" school of sexual thought that pervades, and is destroying, popular culture.
If you want to get worked up about something, get worked up about that.
As an ex-NYer I knew some guys who initially did it for the $ and then stayed that way.
I also know some gals who were intrigued into it.
And yes there are those who right out of the bag are IT!
The other one has gone back and forth just looking for a social group to belong to.
Oh, part of both stories too was rebellion. Why does a teen choose to smoke or take drugs or skip school and become a dope? The urge to rebel against authority is strong during the teenage years. Parents can mess up without even meaning to.
Just ask Anne Hesche.
Whether a person is born homosexual or not..it still manifests it self in a behavior..all behaviors can be changed and or controlled. So I would ask why would anyone one want to behave as a homosexual?
Nobody "chooses" to be gay. I doubt it is genetic. Most gays I have known simply had poor childhood identification with their fathers or adult males in general and developed a "male deficit" or yearning that became a lifeling quest.
That is not to say that homosexual acts should be excused or accepted as appropriate behavior. One is still responsible for controlling his actions and desires. A child molester's drive to molest is no less real nor is it a matter of choice, but society holds him responsible for failing to contain it.
The behavior, though, and the building of a lifestyle around the behavior, is completely voluntary. Acting upon the same-sex attraction is the choice; other options include a life of chastity or opposite-sex marriage. It's an important distinction.
What crap. As if changing religions has the same moral and societal stigma as being gay. Not to mention, many people change religions because they feel passionately that they have been lead in that direction by God. I doubt anyone who is gay feels the same divine zeal to have changed from straight to gay. This is at best tortured logic. I don't agree that God creates people to be gay (i.e. that they're "born that way). But I do believe there are psychological factors that pre-dispose people to that which are triggered in pre-pubesence by various factors. You do not choose to be gay any more than you choose to be straight.
For guys it is more about the sex without commitment I think. Absent a strong moral foundation, they simply seek to gratify themselves any way they can. They are held back by social norms too, but it is more of a restraint than a motivating factor.
Young people are more easily led astray than most parents will admit. They grow up around strangers so often and they simply crave approval. Be careful about who your babysisters are, parents. Pay attention to what's being taught in school. Listen to and know your child's social group. BE AWARE. More than that, be home as much as possible and give your child a strong faith foundation.