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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It’s illogical that one child would have to choose while another does not. Ask a homosexual. Ask a lot of homosexuals. I have. I was a dance instructor during my 20’s. They will tell you they didn’t choose. They will ask you who in their right mind would willingly choose a life of prejudice? It’s very clear if you do your own research that homosexuality is not a choice. It’s hardwired. As for those that have been ‘fixed’, well, brainwashing can ‘fix’ anything.
Of course. And this wonderful element, especially in the service, will be trampled with the sensitivity training sessions about to descend on all the troops.
Not if one was molested an other the wasn't.
In fact, in identical twins, one twin is straight and one twin homosexual in about 50% of the cases. That is proof homosexuality isn't genetic in at least 50% of the cases.
They will ask you who in their right mind would willingly choose a life of prejudice?
Would you make the same point about pedophiles?
That premise doesn't prove homosexuality to be genetic or unchangeable.
There isn't a shred of proof homosexuality is hardwired anymore than there is proof pedophilia or desire to have sex with animals is.
You're spewing leftist propaganda.
No, I understand. I also understand that orientation is hardwired. Having an urge to play a game with someone of the same sex and choosing a life of prejudice are two very different things. Ask homosexuals. They will tell you the same thing. They did not choose. It’s not an urge. It’s hardwired.
PS: The ‘maybe you’re a liberal’ jab won’t work on me. I’m logical, not liberal. The idea that sexual orientation is a choice is illogical.
Thank you - That’s a logical answer. If you were wired differently Allissa’s hair would elicit envy, not desire.
Can it be cured by powerful drugs, this sybaritis?
There’s a lot of evidence that choice is not “hard wired” - on anything - including sexuality - at least not 100%. But I am not here to argue that.
At any rate, we’re in a political forum and talking about politics - which has nothing to do with urges but does have to do with actions - and actions are a choice, period. In that regard, the question itself is a red herring because a President is not in charge of orientation but he or she can impact actions.
No definitive evidence of that. Twinning studies refute the notion of hardwiring be exclusively determinative of homosexuality.
Help.
If I were HC I would say something like “while it may not be clear where same sex attractions come from, it is always a personal choice where you put your tongue or penis.
I refuse to buy the lie that men have no choice on whether to have anonymous sex night after night.
Sadly, Cain is now out early rather than late. He would have been a great secondary character in the debates, and would have been a top-notch VP pick... but not anymore.
Wow—no one says this is an easy subject, but look what you’re saying: “Ask a homosexual . . .” Is a homosexual the most reliable source? Of course he/she’d wish to mitigate guilt (their own or what they perceive society has imposed on them) with a gene-displacement. But that’s not the whole problem. Another face of this is whether or not we should be labeling someone who’s merely “effeminate” as a homosexual. (Of course, out-of-the-closet homos want to blur this distinction because it ups their own numbers while dooming innocents to a choice not easily revoked.) Just as tomboys more often than not turn into heterosexual women, male apron-string holders can turn into heterosexual men. The term “homosexual” can be applied if and only if the defining act has been (and continues to be) fulfilled. Which would mean that choice is definitely a factor. It doesn’t happen by accident. The “brainwashing” comes first from the political homos—who would love to have us believe that there’s no male counterpart for frigidity, no particular desire for sex, no belief in the virtue of celibacy.
What's more, what good has all this go along to get along crap gotten us? The drive bys will hate us anyway, and all this Rino crap has done is help put a POS Marxist in the White House who, if GOD forbid gets a 2nd term, will no doubt complete his mission of destroying the fabric of this once great country.
I apologize; your illogical stance could also be from naivety.
I hear your message. You're making assumptions from the bubble of your own experience. I understand. We all do that in some area.
How does one straight twin and one gay twin ‘prove’ anything?
What do pedophiles have to do with homosexuality?
When did you ‘decide’ you were straight?
And, just as an aside. Sexuality shouldn't be a partisan issue. It's a button pushed by party leaders, both left and right, but those that make it partisan are disingenuous.
Sexual attractions?
I'd say they're full of it.
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