The evidence is against you in terms of anyone being born gay, although I’m prepared to believe that there could be a physiological component to why a person might go in that direction vs. some other dysfunction as a reaction to certain early influences.
That said, I also take issue with Cain or anyone else dismissively saying “It’s a choice.” While there are no doubt some (a very few) whose approach to life is one of experimental hedonism leading to homosexual activity, in most cases it is a compulsion embedded due to early emotional damage, not arrived at by choice. The choice comes when one recognizes the compulsion within themselves and must decide whether to embrace it or combat it. Unfortunately, our cultural has become one that encourages the former and villifies the latter.
” . . . in most cases it is a compulsion embedded due to early emotional damage, not arrived at by choice.”
And according to the studies I cited above, that appears to explain 60% of the issue. It seems there has to be:
1. Genetic predisposition to the response.
2. Early emotional trauma, encouragement or other abnormal external influence.
3. Social, physical and emotional stimuli that reinforces the behavior.
Now waiting for the accusation that because I included genetic predisposition I’m claiming people or “born that way” in 5 . . . 4. . . 3.. . 2...