Gays want us to be responsable for thier choice by affirming them. Gay is a choice. It is not my choice. It is their choice. It is their choice to believe they have no choice. To love someone does not mean to agree with their choice. What do you think.
2006-07-27 02:26:42 · 29 answers · asked by cathyhewed1946 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think anyone who gets into gay parades and gay rights politics is looking for attention. I do have people in my life who are gay and that I love very much. No one is telling them to get to the back of the bus or making them use different bathrooms or schools or housing. I don't believe they are being discriminated against. You all shared your opinion and many were rude and hateful and pretty much said shut up and keep your opinions to yourself. There was no hatred of Gays in my remarks if you got that impression you are wrong.
2006-07-27 03:32:27 · update #1
I stand on the word of God. It is evidence acceptable in a court of law. That is why we put our hand on it when promising to tell the truth. God is not a God of hate. His laws show His love for us. When we break them their are consequences both for ourselves and others. Aids is a consequence of the gay lifestyle and a member of my family has already died of it. I stand by my question and my right to ask it. There were no good answers. Only one person stood up with me for what is right.
2006-07-28 13:40:17 · update #2
I think you don't know a lot of gay people. And are probably a closet bisexual. That's the only way you could concievably confuse the issue of sexual attraction for a choice. Those of us who are straight are quite aware that it isn't a matter of saying to oneself "You know what, I should really get into having sex with dudes, that would be cool." We simply are not attracted to our own sex, and it's certainly not our decision.
Why should it be any different for homosexuals?
2006-07-27 02:40:04 · answer #1 · answered by nihil 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a very happy heteralsexual. But I believe that all people should be given the same rights as everyone else.
During our history we must not forget how we got to where we are today. Being an American born here or Naturalized, we have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit to happiness. Our govt does not gurantee our happiness, just our right to pursue what makes us happy. Remember when woman could not vote! Sexual discrimination!, 1960's fight for Civil Rights. Racial discrimination? Our distrust in the Jewish and other forms of releigion, Religious Discrimination? I could go on and on. THere are far to many things to worry about than what the concept of a relationship is. Hunger, faminie, war, terrorism, domestic violance, gangs, drugs, etc., You can not stop love, its been here since the beginning of time and will be here long after.
And just remember over the years we have had no problems with people of all races being our doctors, lawyers, judges, congressman and woman, teachers and so on; so why do you have a problem with one more community? FEAR! Its is an obstacle that we must overcome, and devopling compassion is a close second.... dont let fear be your downfall. Gays are not on a quest to convert you. Just learn to accept, and when you do, you will have grown mentally, spiritually and emotionally.
2006-07-27 03:00:06 · answer #2 · answered by CSIGrandma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who told you gays want you to be responsible for their choice by affirming them? Nobody wants you to be responsible for their choices, and nobody needs your affirmation.
Being gay is not a choice, and it's not a "lifestyle." If the Bible tells you that, consider (hard) the source: your Bible, I'm assuming, is written in English. By whom? Does God speak English? Who translated it? From what source material? What did they leave out? Why? How do you know that what you read as "God's will" in the Christian Bible isn't some mistranslation of ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew, or Aramaic? You don't, yet you choose to believe in it anyway. That's YOUR choice.
Believe whatever you want--this is America, after all. But it is your choice to choose to believe ignorant assumptions about others without getting anywhere near the truth for yourself.
Pay attention to your own choices, and stop worrying about others'. Take responsibility for your own choices: own the fact that you are letting someone else think and experience for you.
2006-07-27 02:44:54 · answer #3 · answered by Banba 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do want they do by choice. Whether the need to be homosexual is inborn or not, they chose to follow that need and desire.
They refuse to acknowledge the new testament admonitions, instruction and commandments, and they have a growing number of churches and non Bible believing heterosexuals supporting them.
There is little room for interpretation. The Bible is clear. Homosexuality and other fornications are displeasing to God.
The loving Christian is instructed to help the Homosexual realize that, with most of them in turn, accusing the true christian of hate.
Yes, there are people professing Christianity that hate homosexuals.
The homosexual in turn reflexes their actions on the true christian. The true christian person, that loves enough to try to save them.
Since it's to be like the days before the Flood when Christ arrives on the cloud, this is just another sign of the times.
2006-07-27 02:50:00 · answer #4 · answered by rangedog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think anyone wants or needs your affirmation about who they are. How do you know it is a choice? Did you choose to love someone of the opposite sex? Did you sit back and consider both sexes and then choose to feel attraction for one over the other? I do agree you can love someone and not agree with their choices. It isn't for you to agree or disagree. It is their life and their love. Allow people to believe and live as they choose, just as you would like that same respect. Spread love and light up the world.
Love & Light
Sharon
One Planet = One People
2006-07-27 02:35:17 · answer #5 · answered by Soul 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't want anyone to affirm what God made me. Are your really so convoluted and self absorbed to think that I actually care if you affirm me or validate my life?
This may be news to you, but you're not the center of the universe (and neither is the earth - in case you didn't get that memo a few hundred years ago). People don't care what you think; gay people included.
My "choice" as you see it is none of your business. I don't care if you affirm it. I don't care if you recognize it. I don't care if you like it. I don't care if you condemn it. All I want is to be able to live my life without the law dictating who I can and cannot sleep with in the bedroom.
What you think is completely irrelevant. Now, get off your egotistical, convoluted high horse and wake up to the reality of the situation - your opinion, your affirmations, your beliefs don't matter to anyone but you. My opinion, my affirmations, my beliefs don't matter to anyone but me. Let's not make our beliefs into law, eh? It'll make it a much easier place to live.
2006-07-27 02:57:45 · answer #6 · answered by iu_runner 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me, the best way to respond to this is to just
allow then to do their own thing.
You don't have to agree with it, endorse it or
otherwise support it but freedom of choice is
not something we can offer some and then
deny the rest.
Give same sex couples the same rights and
freedoms that everyone else shares and you
will see that being gay isn't an issue any longer.
Just the opinion of a heterosexual male that
agrees with rights for all without restrictions.
2006-07-27 02:33:08 · answer #7 · answered by jrhughes3068 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So all the other species in the animal kingdom where homosexuality exists are making a 'choice'? How ridiculous of you to state that.
All gays want is the same rights hetrosexuals have, which is the option to marry the other consenting adult they love. In a nation built on freedom, they should have that right.
2006-07-27 03:38:30 · answer #8 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being Gay is not a choice, it is genetic - get a clue and read up on it. Gays just want what everyone else wants, acceptance, happiness, equality and tolerance.
You can not choose who you are attrracted to; to find this out for yourself, *TRY* to be attrcated to the same sex if you're heterosexual - you can't do it. The flip side is also true; attraction is defined at the genetic level, and gays can't choose to be attracted to the opposite sex.
2006-07-27 02:31:59 · answer #9 · answered by ceprn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gays want equal treatment as citizens under the law!
Why people are gay whether it is genetic or choice or a combination of both changes nothing ...all people deserve equal treatment under the law unless they are harming others or doing something criminal.
Discrimination is a human rights abuse!
2006-07-27 02:31:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋