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"...Remember peer pressure: to get along, you gotta go along......"

I trust that was sarcasm?

People, if young or old, cannot have their sexual preference
changed by "conditioning" or "peer pressure". A human's
sexual orientation is far more complex than a simple "gee I want
to be gay because it looks like fun and everybody's doing it"

Usually, one's sexual orientation is kept well hidden from parents,
family and friends. It appears to be one of the most lonely states
of human development. The "closeting" of one's identity has been
noted as the cause for youthful suicide. For anyone to suggest that
"being gay" is something anyone would "choose" over being the
more acceptable "normal" is totally ludicrous.

But that mentality and rhetoric does make great fodder for the
causes of both the "religious right" and morally abandoned freedom
stifling groups.

To suggest one's real sexual identity should be stifled, changed or
converted for the benefit of those that cannot accept it, is about
the most immoral and freedom robbing action anyone can
conscribe to.

Thanks

re: "...Remember peer pressure: to get along, you gotta go along......"

I trust that was sarcasm?

no-- except sh.be prefaced with "sometimes"-- but usually most of the time

People, if young or old, cannot have their sexual preference changed by "conditioning" or "peer pressure". A human's sexual orientation is far more complex than a simple "gee I want to be gay because it looks like fun and everybody's doing it"

peer pressure exacts an increased toll over time-- peer pressure is ongoing, especially when someone is/becomes vulnerable to manipulators.

Usually, one's..... is kept well hidden ....lonely states.... The "closeting" .....cause for youthful suicide.

You've described the suffering, mentally ill to a "T", though the APA officially declassified "gays".

For anyone to suggest that "being gay" is something anyone would "choose" over being the more acceptable "normal" is totally ludicrous.

The "gay-in-your-face-agenda" is ludicrous-- and a total choice.

great fodder...

soup du jour.

To suggest one's.... should be stifled, changed or converted for the benefit of those that cannot accept it, is about the most immoral and freedom robbing action anyone can conscribe to.

Again, you mention addiction or whatever-- you've described what often requires intervention.

A human's sexual orientation is far more complex than a simple "gee I want to be gay because it looks like fun and everybody's doing it"

Oh, now wait a minute. You're not honestly describing a situation in which some teen is alone with a gay adult who's about to get over on him/her, it's nine at night and there's nobody else around -- "it looks like fun and everybody's doing it" isn't exactly the mise en scene that fits with reality, is it?