Posted on 06/09/2011 1:19:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain told Hotsheet Wednesday that homosexuality is a sin and a choice.
"I believe homosexuality is a sin because I'm a Bible-believing Christian, I believe it's a sin," he said. "But I know that some people make that choice. That's their choice."
Cain was asked: "So you believe it's a choice?"
"I believe it is a choice," he responded.
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Well you made some fine points. You absolutely refused to answer the question, but you did make some fine points.
The idea of choosing sexual orientation is absurd.
In terms of who you are attracted to, yes, but how you act on the attraction is a different story entirely. For instance, I will say that people are not naturally monogamous in terms of their attractions, including those who are straight. However, whether or not they remain monogamous in their behavior is a choice. Or another one is pre-marital sex. Yes, any given person can be attractive, but it is a decision or a choice to commit the behaviors before the weeding has occurred.
I feel the main point is being missed.
I'm disputing your characterization of animal same-sex activity as "homosexuality," in the sense that it is used for humans. I have heard of no research that indicates such activity in animals is the result of a displaced attraction from the other sex to same-sex. As I said, most explanations involve dominance exercises/social ordering. Nothing I've seen indicates that these animals eschew normal sexual reproduction with the other sex, but admittedly I've only looked into this issue casually.
I would not be surprised at all if there is a biological component to human same-sex attraction, but I cringe at simplistic anecdotal evidence. I've known both flamboyant homosexuals, as well as those who gave no outward indication. Similarly, I've known several people whom, from their mannerisms and behaviors, one would conclude are obviously homosexual, but were not.
And I refuse to succumb to the post-modern notion that every seemingly normal family is hiding some sordid reality.
I think that matter, according to scientists & psychologists, is pretty settled. It’s certainly not genetics.
Maybe so, but I have not advocated forbidding anyone to breed. Homosexuals choose that path. And a recessive gene might take much longer than a few generations to disappear.
As they say. It’s worse than a gaff, it’s the truth.
Good advice, you should take it. Unless of course you want to quote some stupid remark by the pervert Kinsey, you know, that pervert that pressured the American Psychiatric group to redefine Homosexuality as normal.
Or maybe you could explain how the compunction to eat feces, and drink urine is some how normal.
So if it’s not genetics (a point with which I happen to agree) it has to be a choice, right? If our sexual leanings are choices, at what age do we make these choices? I cannot recall choosing to be straight, I just am. If I stopped sleeping with women today (something that would upset the missus) would that make me gay or just celibate?
Same thing with homos’: If a gay person stopped having homosexual sex, would that make them automatically straight, or just celibate?
I already have shared my opinion and am perfectly fine with being proven wrong with facts, not opinion. So far I’ve not seen a lot of facts. Frankly, I have no facts to back up my argument, it’s just that the “choice” people cannot answer the next obvious question very well; “When did you choose to be straight?”
you’re still not bothering to read before you reply.
that’s OK you’ll grow a brain some time if you are lucky
you’re still not bothering to read before you reply.
"Choice" is a vague and ultimately meaningless way to characterize the question.
It would be like asking someone when they "chose" to be an asshole.
It presents a false dilemma between an active conscious decision to see one's self in a certain way, and present that choice to the social environment around him, and a totally unconscious biological determinism.
That’s a rope-a-dope argument. It would be more precise to say that its an inclination, which followed by a series of choices, will lead to exactly there. Like drug addiction; no one says, “Hmm, I think I’ll become a drug addict”. Yet they make all the choices that lead them directly there.
Suffice it to say that his response to this question will not make people want to or not want to vote for him.
People who dislike him will continue to dislike him and people who like him will continue to like him.
This question is not relevant to his ability to fulfill the duties of being President.
I di read it, I just don’t agree with you, because I do have a brain. I am not emotionally involved in the issue, as apparently you are.
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