Posted on 07/12/2006 2:07:22 PM PDT by carlo3b
While I agree that there isn't a gay gene. I wonder what causes people to be sexually attracted to the same sex? My brother in law tells me that he's never had any feelings of sexual attraction to women but has to men since he was in middle school. I'm sure more psychological study of this phenomena will reveal more as time goes on.
I know people who were born gay, as in Helen Keller would know they are gay. Maybe science can't prove this but I believe some people are just born gay.
Agreed. There clearly isn't a gay gene -- if there were, evolution would have weeded it out -- but to call homosexuality a choice is to miss the point as well. It's certainly a pervision, and I believe it's wrong. But that doesn't mean someone woke up one day and decided to be attracted to men. Something happened in their lives to cause them to be confused about their sexual identity. We won't make any headway by telling gays simply to choose differently; we have to adjust the cultural circumstances that make such confusion commonplace.
I can't think of one good reason why one man would choose to wake up in the morning with his arms wrapped around another man. (all dumb jokes aside)
That sure is a DUH ALERT!
Could someone send this to Bush and other gay sympathizers? Oh yeah, Bush is against "gay marriage" but loves to hire them to do jobs NORMAL people are groveling around to do.
Absolutely no proof of this. Twin studies actually show that there is no Gay gene.
"Maybe science can't prove this but I believe some people are just born gay."
That statement alone proves it to be untrue.
God allows all sorts of mysteries and challenges to unfold before our eyes. Its how we deal with those mysteries and challenges that is what He is looking at. Gay Pride, somehow, doesn't strike me as the correct response to the challenge of misorientated sexual preference.
Except that it's been removed as a class of "mental illness" so it is no longer being studied except on a genetic level.
Yes, we are all born the same and then during life we choose what we want to be. White-black, conservative-liberal, male-female, gay-straight.
We were all born with the ability to think and choose, my parents and adult support groups always furnished me with enough information to make sound judgments about dangerous behaviors.. The gay lifestyle is generally far more dangerous than parachuting..
Parents never let your child ponder on this subject without your sound warning against homosexuality..
More psychological study won't help.The Psychologists have already decided that they don't want to hurt the feelings of gay people by labeling them as anything worse than a 'variation on normal'. I believe that men are born gay but I believe that it is a personality disorder. I also think that some men have a woman induced trauma (bad break-up or divorce, etc.)and decide that another man might not hurt them as easily. Pure speculation. I'm not in the field of Psychology.
As a born-again, heterosexual married to the same woman for 37 years next month, I have a question.
Having been active in church for many years, I have found myself in situations where I have had to counsel homosexual men. What do you say when they sit there, with tears rolling down their cheeks and say: "I can remember being attracted to boys since I was 5 years old." Or, when they say: "I did not choose to be this way. Give me a pill to make me straight and I'll take it."
Having always been taught that no one is born homosexual, I've never really known how to "adequately" respond to those types of statements.
Anybody got a clue?
Wow. Propaganda really works for you. Bought it all. You lumped in genetics with a choice and a "not likely" quite nicely.
I do know about the twin studies. And you're right. When one identical twin is gay, less than half the time will the second identical twin be gay.
I find it hard to believe that anyone would choose to be gay. Why would anyone choose a lifestyle which is clearly outside of the mainstream and clearly unnatural, if not for being born that way? I don't understand it but some people have different urges.
" Oh yeah, Bush is against "gay marriage" but loves to hire them to do jobs NORMAL people are groveling around to do"
I was going to suggest Bush hires based on ability rather than who people have sex with. But the Harriet Meyers (sp?) nomination clearly blew that theme.
Pondering on my next door neighbor's son wasn't in my basket, but if it had been, I would have thought it was a sick behavior, and would have avoided the thoughts.. Get it!
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