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Unless it is a disease, it doesn’t matter whether homosexual behavior is genetic or not.

Homosexuality is defined practically by behavior, i.e., unless one engages in sexual activity with a member of the same sex, he, or she, is not a homosexual.

Contrary to popular opinion, the term sexual orientation, an expression based exclusively on “feelings,” does not practically define anyone as a homosexual. To contend that only “feelings” can categorically define a person is to maintain that “feelings of “lust” define one as a rapist or “feelings” of “anger” define one as a murderer or “feelings” of “greed” define one as a thief.

“Feelings” are phenomena completely internal to their possessor(s). No human can know any other human's "feelings" without that other human engaging in some behavior from which those "feelings" can be inferred. Therefore, outside of mental health terms, defining a classification identifier, i.e., homosexual, based exclusively on a human's "feelings" makes the term practically meaningless.

Any human behavior (not driven by autonomic or instinctual responses) that is not voluntary is, by definition, a psychosis.

Therefore, homosexual behavior is either a voluntary choice or a psychosis.

If homosexual behavior is a psychosis, then it is validly subject to treatment and possible cure. Consequently, like other psychoses, its sufferers should be given curative therapy whenever possible. If these individuals refuse or reject curative therapy and represent a significant and serious danger to themselves or the public, at large, they should be humanely confined with other dangerous, mentally ill people until they accept and benefit from curative therapy.

If homosexual behavior is a voluntary choice, then it is/should be subject to the same types of societal behavioral regulations/norms/laws as is any other sexual behavior such as pedophilia, pederasty, prostitution, polygamy, polyandry, etc

Therefore, homosexual behavior is either a voluntary choice or a psychosis.

I disagree and here's why:

I think most are under the impression homosexual behavior is a voluntary choice. That is, when people with same-sex attraction engage in sexual behavior with people of the same sex, that action is voluntary. What I think confuses people is homosexuality (the behavior) and same-sex attraction. The former is a choice, the latter, for the vast majority, is not a choice.

Perhaps the issue the nation should be talking about is from where same-sex attraction originates. And the more people realize homosexuals are not born with their attraction to the same sex, the less support they'll have because a higher percentage of the populace will have a better education on the subject.

As I see it, same-sex attraction, or better, how same sex attraction develops may be a psychosis, I don't know for sure. What I know is our sexuality is quite complex and determining why 98% develop opposite-sex attraction and 2% develop same-sex attraction is no simple task because politics appears to trump the science of homosexuality.

I have been saying this for years! I “love” all 120+ Marines with whom I went to combat, but I am NOT a homosexual - I didn’t have sex with any of them! This is about “coming out of the closet” into my living room and expecting me to say, “Oh, that seems normal!”

We are NOT our sex life! We are not our jobs! We are a complex system that coagulates all our being and feelings and experiences into the person that we become! I say it all the time, you don’t have to go back to the closet, but please go back to your own bedroom!