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2006-06-26 14:30:06 · 19 answers · asked by vampirejasper 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Explain why or why not you feel it to be a choice.
2006-06-26 14:34:53 · update #1
There is a Transgendered person I work with. Suprisingly she is a male to female who is bisexual. She's always told me that gender identity does not dictate sexual orientation.
2006-06-26 14:36:37 · update #2
I don't think anyone who is gay or transgendered is going to say it was a choice. Who would choose a life where they will be perpetually picked on by ignorant and judgemental ***_holes? We are attracted to whomever we are attracted to.
Just as some like tall, others like small, some like skinny, some like soft. You can tell someone who likes skinny women that fat women are great too..and they can try to choose a big gal, but in the end it just doesn't turn them on.
There is now a growing number of studies pointing to differences in the brain of gay people. This would indeed support the theory that sexual orientation is something people are born with. As to transgendered, they often CAN find genetic differences.
We know that genetics is a tricky thing, just as two children born of the same parents can be totally different, and some babies born healthy and some born with extra toes and other variations, why is it so hard to believe that variations in sexual identity could be genetic too?
Again.. I don't think many would choose a lifestyle that puts them at risk or is going to be full of extra difficulties. They are who they are.
And even if it were a choice, it doesn't hurt me or you. We each choose our partners, just because theirs is the same sex, should not be anyone else's business.
IF there is a God, and if he's truly going to judge someone negatively for homosexuality (and I don't believe that at all), then wouldn't be the homosexual who answers to God? So what gives humans the right to play God?
2006-06-26 14:50:37 · answer #1 · answered by Lori A 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I do not think that being lesbian, gay, or bi is a choice...obviously being transgendered would be a choice; you have to actively take steps for this. Although I think having the desire is perhaps not a choice. I wonder what the science is behind this...have there ever been studies done as to why some people feel they are born the wrong gender???
2006-06-26 14:34:43 · answer #2 · answered by cooperslassie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ever thing we do, we have to make a choice. You are not born that way. You are either a male or female. If you chose to be something else, then you are going against the law of nature. Romans 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: Romans 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 recompence of their error which was meet. Romans 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;
2006-06-26 14:46:33 · answer #3 · answered by Ray W 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe.
I believe people are born gay just as people are born with curly hair. In rare situations, things that happen in a person's life may be the instigator for a sexual preference.
Do you think most people would chose to be LGBT in a world that is full of self-righteous folk who demand the right to live life the way they want to but won't allow that right to others. Who spend much time chanting obscure verses in the Bible but don't live a good Christian life themselves?
2006-06-26 14:38:03 · answer #4 · answered by Blue 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
from the people i know..it just came naturally...example..my friend remembered that when he was a little boy, he had a crush on his best friend...he couldnt quite explain it....he would feel nervous and not know what to say....he tried for years to be straight because he has 2 other brothers and a strict catholic mother......and he just could not do it anymore...bisexuality though is probably a gay person that had both sides and liked it...i dont know!?!?!? i know a transgendered person and she said that she really did not feel comfortable in her own skin until now...
2006-06-26 14:35:50 · answer #5 · answered by mz.Tiza 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it is not a choice. What person would choose to go through the ridicule and rejection that most gay people have to go through. If it was a choice then everyone would choose what is excepted by society.
2006-06-26 14:37:24 · answer #6 · answered by missee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Almost every person I know who is gay chose to not be gay.
They fought against it and fought against it. They hated themselves for being gay, just as much as some religious folk hate them.
Then, they realized who they were, that it was beyond their control.
And the most enlightened of my friends in this situation learned to love themselves, despite living in a society that mostly saw them as sinful.
The only real choice is how we choose to act when we discover we or someone we know is gay.
2006-06-26 14:54:12 · answer #7 · answered by Colin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is a choice. Just like heterosexuals choose to cheat, lie, sleep around, have adultery and fornication. Its a sin just like LGBT. Not different at all.
2006-06-26 14:41:07 · answer #8 · answered by amissybell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Usually not, especially if you're at an extreme end of the continuum between hetero and homo.
If you're more in the middle/grey area of this continuum, then choice may come into it. (no pun intended!.)
2006-06-26 14:35:11 · answer #9 · answered by J9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not a choice to feel attracted to people, it just happens.
2006-06-26 14:33:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋