Do you guys believe that homosexuality is something that you are born with or is a chosen life style?

Answer 1

It makes no difference whatsoever, if homosexuality is inborn or chosen. Whatever the reason for the desire may be, it doesn't matter. The desire has never been the issue. The issue is what any given homosexual chooses to do about that desire. Does he choose to follow it, and have sex with members of the same gender, or does he not? The desire can't be helped, but the actions certainly can. He (or she) has no less of an obligation to live a Christian lifestyle than anyone else does, and that includes all aspects of sex as much as it does anything else. It might be harder for them in that way, but it's no less necessary. That can't be watered down.

Answer 2

My oppinions are base on what the Bible has to say about the issue. Thus is the Bible’s View—Is It Harsh? That : “God has abandoned them to degrading passions . . . and [they are] experiencing in their own persons the inevitable penalty of what they have done.” (Rom. 1:26, 27, An American Translation)

Not surprisingly, therefore, the Bible says that homosexuality is “degrading” and that “those practicing such things are deserving of death.” (Rom. 1:32) Of course, it is up to God and his glorified Son to execute any such death penalty at the proper time.—2 Thess. 1:6-10. “But is this not harsh on God’s part?” some persons ask.
Contrary to what many persons think, homosexuals are not born that way, but their homosexual behavior is learned. And often a person gets started when very young by playing with another’s sexual parts, and then engaging in homosexual acts.
Some may argue that a person “is born a homosexual” and claim that there is a genetic inclination toward the practice. But if that is the case, why is it that some individuals are homosexual for only part of their life, maybe in their later years? If homosexuality were inherited, would it not be evident all through life and remain with them? That seems logical. So something other than inheritance must figure into the cause of their homosexual actions.

One study suggests that homosexual men tend to have less of the male hormone testosterone in their blood and fewer sperm than do heterosexual men. However, even if that were true, the point raised in The New England Journal of Medicine is valid: Are men homosexual because they lack testosterone? Or do men lose testosterone once they have become homosexuals? That cannot be positively determined.

Some defenders of homosexuality argue that the practice must be considered normal since, as they say, it is even found in the animal world. Male monkeys, for instance, have been observed mounting other male monkeys. Of course, just because animals may engage in a certain practice does not mean that humans should use that as an excuse to imitate or “ape” them, does it? But does the abundance of gathered evidence really indicate that animals are homosexual? No.
The 1974 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica says: “This great mass of data, however, cannot answer the question whether any of these animals is a homosexual. No adult animals other than human beings are known to prefer orgasmic intercourse regularly with their own sex.”

There is, however, in the last analysis, another fact to keep in mind: Homosexuals have chosen their way of life. Darrel Johnson, an editor of Gay-Vue magazine, shows that this is the case:
“A person apparently has the potential for conforming to any one or all of the various sexual modes. This being true, somewhere along the line a person finally settles on a preference.”

In conclusion: According to Warren Blumenfeld, coordinator of the national Gay Students Center, even compares the choice between “sexual modes” to buying an automobile; he says, ‘One person likes a Cadillac and another likes a sports car.’
People are “gay,” then, because that is what they want. As the Bible says, it is “in keeping with the desires of their hearts.” Therefore, the Bible’s condemnation of this practice is justified when it says that both male and female homosexuals receive “in themselves the full recompense, which was due for their error”; they “will not inherit God’s kingdom.”—Rom. 1:24-27; 1 Cor. 6:9, 10.
It logically follows that they can change if they really want to change, does it not? The Bible is correct when it refers to some who carried on in such practices in the first century and says, “that is what some of you were. But you have been washed clean.”—1 Cor. 6:11.

Answer 3

Many answers so far beg the question: How can our educational systems breed such an incredible amount of ignorant arrogance?

The non-nitwit answer is that so far science leans to a "born-with" solution. The rest is nonsensical speculation.

Zealotry may "demand" a different answer, but these explanations are nothing more than the smoke and mirrors of dogmatic "thinking" - which is nothing more than an occasional rearrangement of prejudices..

Answer 4

It sure as hell isn't chosen. I know that for a fact - I'm a homosexual.

I have always known there was something different on me, but I never could quite figure it out. But when I did, it was like, BAM, everything was explained that had been different about me growing up.

I can only assume that God made me this way, because I know my parents didn't raise me to be gay. I was raised like any other kid. And it wasn't a conscious choice - just like you don't choose to be straight if you are. You just are attracted to the opposite sex by nature, just like I'm attracted to the same sex by nature.

Answer 5

I believe it is a sin that the Devil has sprouted to decieve into believing that people are born that way. Everyone looks at someone of the same sex and thinks there's something attractive about that person, but some have confused that with lust for the same sex when in truth they just find that person attractive. Nothing wrong with that.

Answer 6

Definitely a chosen lifestyle. All the gays that claim that they are born that way are just trying to convince themselves because deep down they know that homosexuality is unnatural.

Answer 7

Homosexuality is a chosen life style.

When a society looses it's religion, and ethics, what could stop people from being just like animals....

We should be worried of what is coming from those people....

Answer 8

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; God did not make them.

Answer 9

It just kinda happens. Kinda like how many women just naturally feel attracted to guys, some other women just feel naturally attracted to other women. You can't be born with a life choice like that, nor do you say "hey, i feel like being gay for the rest of my life, sounds like a good idea." But it is in no way wrong no matter how they come about it.

Answer 10

Its obviously something you are born with. Being straight, I know I never made a choice to like girls, It was just the way I was born. The only people who think it could be a choice are those who were born bisexual.