Why do many straight christians assume that homosexuality is strictly NOT genetic?

Question

I mean, if you have zero experience with homosexuality how could you honestly make a judgement call on something like that.

Answer 1

That's a great question. Every time I come across anyone who says homosexuals should just pray and change their behaviour I pose it to them this way........You are straight, were born straight and enjoy relationships with the opposite sex. Suppose someone told you one day it was wrong, sick and you were going to hell. Could you just pray about it and start sleeping with someone of the same sex?? I couldn't....Of course it's genetic. The sooner people realize that the sooner this world will be a less judging, damning, racist place!!!

Answer 2

I don't believe that it has been proven one way or the other. If it was strictly genetic then why are those who experiment or 'go all the way' and then denounce the lifestyle? While there are others who were married to the opposite sex with children, and suddenly they will leave their spouse for someone of the same sex. No one has all the answers, and if they did, well then this would be a pretty boring world. I don't think everything in this world can be answered through genetics though. Nature vs nurture and all that jazz.

Answer 3

I have a grewat booklet titled, "What Jesus says about homosexuality". When you open it up, all the pages are blank. As for the old testaments, the versus the radical right Christian zealots use are merely laws that had been overturned and no longer valid since Christ came to the earth. And for the favorite Somod tale...that is more a story about hospitality than anything. Why would God want a family to sacrifice their virgin daughter to a mob? It sickens me to know that the Christian right is making the same mistakes they have many times in the past in persecuting another group of people that they want to convert to their likeness. There is so much that can be said about that.

Answer 4

"We do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin." Hebrews 4:15 Jesus was enticed to sin in EVERY way, yet He did not give into the temptation. That includes homosexuality.

How do you know that none of us have either dabbled in homosexuality or were totally captive to it? I know people who understand both the power that homosexuality has over a person's life and God's ability to break it and bring them out of it.
They have also experienced the mercy, forgiveness, and the cleansing power of a loving God.

I have compassion for those caught in that sin, but I still can't condone it.

Genetics imply something created, and I don't believe the Lord would create a gene for something like homosexuality and then condemn the people to hell who practice it.

Answer 5

Because they believe what they are told to believe. Lemmings who cannot or do not wish to think for themselves. No one is more opinionated than someone who is not educated properly. Then there's the fear factor. Think about it. They've been taught their entire lives that homosexuality is a choice and a horrible sin by their parents and their church. They lean on their religion to the point that they aren't required to think for themselves to any great extent and they base their entire lives around all those notions taught to them as foregone conclusions by religious zealots and just plain bigoted people. Then, all of sudden, it's announced by the scientific world (this may actually happen in the near future) that they have determined beyond any scientific doubt that homosexuality is genetic. Where does this leave the religious zealot? Squirming and angry at science because now they have to start questioning a few things they've blindly believed. Actually, the thought of that puts a great big grin on my face...

Answer 6

Until a scientist gets on TV and say yes this is genetic then ok I'll belive it. It's argued or belived and thats not always clear. For me I feel like being straight is a choice. I have thought about what gay men do and it took all of what 3 seconds to figure out nope I don't want Jail love. So I talk to girls and I date them it's what I want to it's my desire, most straight people think it's the same for you, you wants guys so thats what you chase but thats how most straight guys see it. We don't want to do the man thing so we choose not to put ourselves in that situation.

Key word thier is Christains, we all believe God Created us all and if he is against Homosexuality then he wouldn't make some one that way only to be judged and not enter heaven. Thats the best I can do for you.

As far as expierence, don't tell me you have to experience everything to know wether or not you will like it. Straight guys don't need to do that to know they don't want it period.

With your genetic theory don't tell me everyone who has a same sex expirence is Gay, there are to many holes to fill. People cop out and turn gay beacue thier last bf/gf hurt them. It's a wierd topic.

Answer 7

I am a Christian, and homosexuality IS genetic, but you still won't like my answer:

Homosexuality is just like every other sin, including lust and murder and worshipping false gods. It's genetic because we are all sinners. I'm a sinner, too, and I inherited it from my parents, all the way back to Adam. If I keep using that to justify my sin, however, all that will get me is death. I had to get over myself to accept Christ's work on the cross on my behalf, so that my sins are all forgiven. Just like yours can be.

--Oh, and I don't hate you, or any other homosexual. If I did, I'd have to hate all sinners. Jesus commands me not to hate; I wish more of my Christian brothers and sisters would listen...That doesn't mean Christ is a liar, though.

Answer 8

Because of ignorace on the subject. To "reese f", God doesn't make mistakes so why was homosexuality allowed to exist in the first place. It takes place in many animal species. WHY? Remember in the New Testament Jesus never even addresses the subject of homosexuality. It couldn't have been that important if it's not even mentioned in the Christian part of the Bible.

Answer 9

To those who just assert that it isn't inborn:

Number one: Actually there is a great deal of scientific evidence that it is inborn. Beyond scientific evidence there is anecdotal evidence.

The fruit fly study is actually fairly conclusive. But the pheremonal and eye blink studies are also compelling. I've included links below for those that are interested. Beyond that, research increasingly suggests that at least for males, X28 is the crucial gene. I am saddened by this, because I believe that once it is proven, gay people will be wiped out -- and I think that is sad, because given the number of species in which homosexuality exists (see Dr. Bruce Bagemihl's book "Biological Exuberance" from St. Martin's Press) I think it serves a purpose.

In addition to scientific evidence is the anecdotal evidence. I never in my life had any sexual feeling for a female -- nor any romantic feelings. I have had romantic feelings for other males since 8. I figured out it was sexual at 11 and came out at 14. I never felt anything for girls, neither do other gay males I know. Some boys manage to suppress it for a time, but when it comes out they admit to having always had the feelings. Likewise for bisexuals, although bisexuals always have feelings for both, and therefore are capable of choice -- for real. Gays are no more capable of choice than straights are.

Number two: The Bible speaks out directly about a lot of things. It says that the world has corners (Isaiah 11:12) and that it sets on pillars (I Samuel 2:8). It says that God accepted a human sacrifice -- he may have prevented Isaac's, but he allowed a general to sacrifice his own daughter without even a murmur, the text giving tacit support to the idea that having given his word, the man had to kill his child. (Judges 11:30-39). It clearly maintains that genocide is often commanded by God (Joshua 10:40-42 and I Samuel 15: 2, 3 and 8) and that, after killing all the adults in a race, taking the female children as sex slaves is permissible (Numbers 31: 17-18).

The God revealed by the Bible is not only both a liar who doesn't know the natural laws of his own world, and a monster, as shown above -- but he has no real regard, even for his own people, whom he forces into cannibalism (Leviticus 26: 27-29) when he is mad at them; or his priests, whose faces he wipes with dung (Malachi 2:1-3).

It is not only gays and lesbians that are hated by biblegod. This monstrosity also suggests killing kids who eat or drink too much (Deuteronomy 21: 18-21), and if he is angry with parents he will kill their children (Leviticus 26:22) and blame things upon children whose great-great-great grandfather committed the things being blamed on the kids (Exodus 20: 5).

Putting it in a word, biblegod is a monstrosity, a horrific demiurge of evil. Something that even he admits ( Isaiah 45:7 ) [Furthermore, the word used in Hebrew for evil, the word ra' is widely conceded to mean a number of different things: It can mean "wickedness," "mischief," "bad," "trouble," "hurt," "sore," "affliction," "ill," "adversity," "harm," "grievous," and "sad." So no matter what particular interpretation is given of this word -- it has profoundly negative implications. The idea that god is sovereign over the affairs of man makes this even worse, because no matter what interpretation it has, it indicates that biblegod deliberately does harm.]; evil about which he sometimes changes his mind (Exodus 32:14). What a font of unchanging morality -- that almighty God can decide to kill an entire people, and then be talked out of it by a human servant... Furthermore, it is obvious, if God can change his mind, then even if the Bible were not full of errors and horrors, you could not trust that God had not changed his mind on any other issue in it.

So, yes, I suppose if one wants to take as truth a book that says that beetles have four legs instead of six (Leviticus 11: 21-23) and that rabbits chew their cud [which they do NOT] (Deuteronomy 14:7) and if you are willing to, having accepted it as truth, overlook the fact that biblegod routinely changed his mind (I can show you other instances if you wish) then yeah, I suppose its words would matter.

I on the other hand, while a Christian (as in Christ follower) am NOT a literalism, and do not think that a book of bronze age myths owing heavily to the Sumerian and Egyptian myths in the Old Testament and to a collection of pagan faiths, particularly Mithraism in the New Testament matters at all.

Regards,

Reynolds Jones
Schenectady, NY
http://www.rebuff.org
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Answer 10

If you believe that homosexuality is genetic then god doesn't exist.
The creator is perfect homosexuality is the absence of. So if you believe in GOD then you are a sinner. There is no means that justifies the end or actions of ie.. no off-spring.
Open your mind and not your flesh and you will see this