It is a choice, not a genetic trait. A bad choice at that for so many reasons.
When did the genome project determine that nobody is born that way? I am sure it is BOTH and more than likely for those that it is a choice they are the most vocal.
To me, the cause of the predisposition does not matter. Acting on those desires violates just about any norm you can think of. We all have desires, however, being intelligent humans we do not act on the ones that society frowns upon.
I, for one, would like to exterminate a certain group of excrement claiming to have a religion that is offended by everything. I have not acted on that burning desire. Why can't the butt pirates keep it in their pants?
You're half right, but dismissing it as a choice is naive. Vast evidence shows that homosexual tendencies are the result of emotional relational issues implanted very early in life, long before it occurs to anyone to make a choice. The choice comes when a person recognizes their inclinations and decides whether to challenge or embrace them.
That said, there might be some sort of genetic component that makes a person more inclined to indulge in homosexual behavior as a response to their emotional issues where another might engage in substance abuse.
Beware of the flame. You are correct.
Some people are born with physical defects. My nephew, for example, was born with a bad lower intestine and as a result has a colostomy bag.
I believe that some people can be born with emotional defects, a disposition toward same-sex attraction. There's nothing necessarily sinful about the disposition, but there is something wrong about it, and sinful about acting on it.
People can be born with this same-sex attraction defect, which can be treated like any physical or emotional defect. Or they can develop it just as someone can develop a broken leg through some sort of accident.
Not sure the argument that it's "a choice" is beneficial to anyone, especially those struggling to escape that lifestyle.