I heard it said that sex is 99% in one’s head.
Calling captain obvious...
It ain’t a lifestyle, believe me.
No one would choose to join the most despised and reviled minority in the world - ever - unless it was in their genes.
Some of us are just born that way.
I’ve got lots of friends in the community, and they can confirm this.
It’s just something some of us have to deal with, and it’d be a lot easier for them to deal with it, if the rest of the world would realize that and try to understand.
Forgiveness is the primary Christian virtue, and I don’t see enough of it some times.
Here's my $.02 worth on this subject.
In a manner of speaking, I believe that homosexuals are born that way.Here's the way my thinking goes and I'll write it in the form of a resolution.
Whereas all men are born with a sin nature, and
Whereas that sin nature does manifest itself in acts of sin, and
Whereas this manifestation varies between individuals; some to this particular sin, others to another type of sin, and
Whereas God calls homosexuality a sin and does condemn them that practice it,
Therefore, homosexuality is a sin and, like all other sins, is able to being repented of, abandoned, and being forgiven of.
Conclusion: People are born sinners and in some cases homosexuality is the primary way they express/manifest that sinfulness. But they are not born into homosexuality in a way that is unchangeable.
A study like this needs to be tested, using hard physical evidence. Interviews may well be unreliable. A suggestion is to use PET sanning as a verification technique.
The way PET scanning could be used is to measure the metabolic response,of the hypothalamus, to human pheromones. There are two suspected pheromones, one derived from testosterone and one derived from estrogen.
There is a differential response between heterosexual males and homosexual males in the response two the different pheromones. Heterosexual males will respond to the pheromone derived from estrogen, but not to the pheromone derived from testosterone. The response is reversed in homosexual males.
The procedure is to test the subjects before they enter a counseling program, then test the subjects, when they claim to be cured. That is certainly a better way to verify the results, than an interview.
The results look consistent with those of Dr. Joseph Nicolosi, from the National Association for the Reorientation Therapy for Homosexuals(NARTH).
NARTH has been doing this work for years, and fighting the APA’s directives to the contrary.
I wonder why the study’s authors would suggest it’s the first such study.
Yes, but does this stop a love of shopping, showtunes, and leather?
People make bad decisions, based upon traumatic experiences all the time (i.e. an abused child can grow up to be a homosexual, or a criminal, or abuse pets, etc.). Those who truly have "their wires crossed" are a VERY small percentage.
Imagine that, Christians were right about homosexuals. Pretty much blows the born homo theory out of the water.
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