What causes homosexuality? Is it a choice by man or by nature?

Answer 1

I dont think we can know how each individual arrived at their point of homosexuality. I wonder myself, but I guess there are causes and choices.

Maybe it's different for everyone, and there are lots of causes that sometimes converge, like biology and choice and upbringing. Theres no doubt you can choose to try it, but some people will be more predisposed than others for whoever knows what reason?

Some theorists think that having a rejecting parent of, interestingly, the opposite sex, can cause problems with accepting own sexuality.
If this happens then an individual can try to gain their parents acceptance by rejecting their own sexuality which they are just becoming aware of as well as their parents sexual identity. The anger and humilitation the child feels at rejection is turned inward towards the percived cause of that rejection, their own differing sexual identity. The child misses out on the process of learning to accept their sexual identity because they percieve they are not acceptible as they are.

Other that that, I think people have isolated a supposed "gay gene" that may be involved.
Theres probably lot of reasons including just wanting to try everything which is kind of daft and might lead you to places you really dont want to be!
like in the arms of your best friend! Either way I think there is an element of freewill for some people but not for others.

Answer 2

"Jesus Never Said Anything About Homosexuality!"



SO...it must be okay, right?

Talking points from Mission America

Consider these facts:

1. He also never said anything about rape, incest or domestic violence. Are those things okay, too?

2. There are many teachings and deeds of Christ that are not included in the Gospel accounts, as John writes in John 21:25.

3. Christ did say that God created people “in the beginning” as male and female, and that marriage is the union of one man and one woman joined together as “one flesh.” (Matthew 19:4-6 and Mark 10:6-9) Nothing is said about any other type of union.

4. When He discussed sexual morality, Christ had a very high standard, clearly affirming long-standing Jewish law. He told the woman caught in adultery to “Go and sin no more.” (John 8:11) He warned people not only that the act of adultery was wrong, but even adulterous thoughts. (Matthew 5:28) And he shamed the woman at the well (John 4:18) by pointing out to her that he knew she was living with a man who was not her husband.

5. Christ used the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah as an example of God’s wrath (Matthew 10:15, Mark 6:11, Luke 10:12, and Luke 17:29). Throughout the Old Testament, prophets clearly described these cities as being notorious for the practice of homosexuality. (Genesis 18:20, Genesis 19:4-5, Isaiah 3:9, Jeremiah 23:14, Ezekiel 16:46-59). Jesus certainly knew that this was how the comparison would be understood.

6. Christ was God incarnate (in the flesh) here on earth. He was the long-expected Messiah, which was revealed in Matthew 16:13- 20, Matthew 17:5-9, Mark 8:27-30, Luke 4:16-30, Luke 9: 18-21,John 4:25-26, John 8:57-59 and elsewhere. As one with God, He was present from the beginning (John 1: 1-13; Colossians 1:15-17; Ephesians 3:9 and elsewhere). So, Jesus was part of the Godhead as the laws were handed down through Moses to Israel and eventually to the whole world. This Old Testament law clearly prohibited homosexuality (Genesis 19, Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13; Deuteronomy 23:18 and elsewhere). The apostles understood this also, as shown by Paul’s writing in Romans 1:24-27, Peter’s in 2 Peter 2:4-22, and John’s in Revelation 22:15.

So--the apostles, who were taught by Christ, clearly understood that homosexuality was a sin as it has always been. When people say, “Jesus said nothing about homosexuality,” they reveal that they really haven’t understood Scripture, or Who Christ was. Maybe some of these points can help them toward a clearer understanding. [From Mission America]

Answer 3

I don't think that it's ever a conscious choice. I'll spare any philosophical ramblings about the human brain being a physical organ subject to physical laws and thus no 'real' freewill and stick to our common understanding of things. Truth be told it's always nature as all is nature.

In the common way, i was going to start and say sometimes one and sometimes the other. Sailors at sea and such. Been hungry so long anything looks good, others are just born that way. Also other ways for it to be a learned behavior rather than starvation. Social taboo or lack thereof, hip thing to do in some circles etc. I think i'll stick with learned behaviour (closer to what you would call choice) and say that no one is born gay. Conditioning/ learning may be very subtle and complex as to have many different ways to come about and no one or even clear path.

Answer 4

I happen to have a friend who is a proud lesbian, and I know that she didn't make herself that way. She told me that, when she was about eleven, she just realized it. It was something that she always knew deep down. She can't control the way she is and the way she is does not make her a bad person.

It's nature. It's in her genome, that is all. It should be noted that the more children your parents give birth to, the more likely it is for the homosexual genome to occur.

And one thing. Before I hear any comments about "Adam and Steve", let me point something out. God created Adam and Eve because it was necessary for the proliferation of our species for a man and a woman. Need I remind everyone that, as God created everything in the planet, that he also created homosexuality?

Answer 5

Kind of both. You obviously know what and who you are attractted to at a young age but it is your choice to accept it. I am 24 and gay and have known i liked guys at a very young age. We all know, even "straight" guys probably fooled around with their friend when they were little or find themselves arroused at some point. It is interesting because when you are young it doesnt matter or phase you, but when you grow up and learn things from your surroundings, it does have an impact on that decision. Some say most gay guys had a bad relationship with their dads, some not. But by far, the most dangerous person is the closet homo that hates himself. Just have an open mind and love everyone. Im not in any category ie: gay, straight, bi, trans, etc. i just go by my name.

Answer 6

Ah ....I still have to go with nature providing the tendency and man having the final choice on whether or not it is acted upon. Being born with the nature to be heterosexual is the same thing. It is still a choice on whether or not the acts of heterosexuality are acted upon.
Boy that's alot of acts

Answer 7

I think some people are born like that and other drift that way. They have found that a gene the mother passes on is linked to homosexuality.

Answer 8

Homosexuals are scorned, ridiculed, beaten, treated as second-class citizens, told they're evil and wicked and going to hell, and in some parts of the world executed by the state. Who on Earth would choose that?

Answer 9

it a spirit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it not of God 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;

Answer 10

Did you choose to be heterosexual? (Assuming you are, of course. It's hard to tell on here.)

There's homosexual animals, so I don't see why there wouldn't naturally be homosexual humans too. Animals are fine with it, but humans run into problems when they try to choose one way when they're actually the other. Sometimes our brains get us in trouble. :P