Are homosexuals sick people or are we for disliking them?

Question

Most Homosexuals say that they were born gay, that it is a part of their DNA, but is this really true. To date science has only guessed but common sense would say otherwise. For the most part DNA constructs physical and mental aspects of a human being that are NOT changable. If you were born with blue eyes and blond hair,you cant will your DNA to give you brown eyes and brown hair, but in the case of homosexuals, many of them have changed and become hetrosexual, suggesting that homosexuality is not genetically created but developed by a persons mental state of mind. Many gays use the example of the frog that can change sex (A sexual) but since we are mamals and not amphibians, this example does not hold water. The funny aspect to this is that if you have hatred against a gay person you are called a homophobic (phobias are mental diseases), which implies that you are the one with the mental disease and the homosexual is perfectly "normal" i don't believe that homosexuality is normal.

Answer 1

They are actually SICK PEOPLE

Answer 2

We the surfers of cyber world meet with so many people every day. Surfing the net is the best pastime one can ever develop, as internet has the most knowledge, a surfer will never have to wait for a answer. The vast knowledge of cyber world is nothing as compared to the cyber society that it gives. Internet is a community but so vast that we need a place to make conversation easy. What more can be better than a chat room for this purpose, well a chat room and a message board along with a forum is the best combination really. I was actually looking for a place where we can find all these things with a profile and photo brouse option. Finally I got this site, this place is a very nice community where we can share every thing online. And also about the leader board, I must tell it is great. The thought of the leader board is unique, as not to many people has thought about this thing. And the method of getting the leader is very different and one must check out this site once. The cyber culture is growing, and it is about time that we find our club and that to a very different club, which is not a part of any big website house like the yahoo and google. This site am talking about has every thing that a cyber surfer ever wants. This is the website address, http://www.friendscyberclub.com/ Features of this site is: 1) chatting 2) view profiles and photos 3) upload your photos and make a cool profile. 4) your message board 5) forum 6) See your name on the leader board. There are also many more features available in the site, free to join.

Answer 3

What difference does it make? I don't care who they have sex with. They can have sex with a Ford Car if they want to I could care less. The same applies to heterosexuals. (That is you I guess) Why do you hate them? Most that I have talked to are very intelligent. They are also very neat clean people. Very Artistic. Do they threaten you? Are you afraid that deep down you may have the same tendencies? Oh, and by the way, at least they work, pay taxes. If you want to be on someones case go after welfare recipients who don't work, are lazy, won't be responsible for themselves. Screw their brothers and sisters, have one kid after another so you can pay for their welfare. Get your priorities in order. Is the welfare thing normal? To the best of my knowledge Gay people with each other have yet to produce a child from their union. Hell fire I wish all terrorist were homosexuals. If that were true it would not be too long before there were no terrorist.

Answer 4

No, and yes. Homosexuality is abnormal but not an 'illness' in the conventional sense. (It might be considered a form of impaired reproduction, but that's stretching.) The evidence suggests most homosexuals are that way inherently, although nurture can have some effect. Even in our relatively tolerant culture (and it is, no matter what the gay lobby want you to think), few people would choose to be homosexual if they were able to decide otherwise.

It is important to note that people can choose to alter their behavior without altering their essential nature. We know that for centuries gays have been able to marry women, have sex with them, and raise children; but deep down they were still gay. It is still more the rule than the exception for homosexuals to 'act straight' to fit in with society, but their internal impulses do not change. Quite frankly, it would be nice if more people would give them credit for being willing to acclimate to the majority norm.

It is no more rational to hate a homosexual for being gay than to hate an alcoholic for an abnormality which they did not choose to have. One may find the behavior or even the impulse distasteful, but not actually hate the whole person who is a much larger entity than one aspect of their being. By the same token, this should not lead us to *promote* abnormal behavior, nor exempt rational adults from accepting the consequences of their choices.

Answer 5

First of all, your knowledge of biology is equivalent to the comics section in the Sunday papers. Your genetic make-up has a powerful influence on all aspects of your life. There are no such things as "changeable" and "fixed" aspects of your biology... everything is in a dynamic state attempting to move towards an environmentally and genetically influenced equilibrium.

The real myth is the fixed category of "heterosexual" or "homosexual" that you seem to believe an individual can correctly identify for themselves. These are social labels that a person may decide to take-on for a mixed bag of reasons, few of them biological.

The real secret is that you are, actually, gay. When you come to accept this about yourself, you will be a much happier person.

Answer 6

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion but only one person is entitled to judge another person and that would be God (or depending on your religion, the Higher Being you worship). If someone is homosexual and they don't try to influence your decisions in life, why would it be any of your business? Hating a homosexual doesn't make you homophobic, it makes you ignorant. People spend too much time worrying how others live their lives. You feel the choices and things you do in your life are the right things but to someone else, they may not see it that way. But it's your choice. We were all put here with the same skills. What we choose to do with those skills are up to each individual and each individual feels that is the right choice for them. Stop judging people for their choices and start judging them for their hearts and how they treat other people. You are going to miss out on knowing many wonderful people in your life if you choose the people in your life by your standards.

Answer 7

I'm going to shock a lot of people here but here goes:

I'm a conservative Christian and I have 2 gay friends.

There was a time I would have at least partially agreed with the OP (Original Poster) and old DSM's which actually listed it as a mental illness. Then I found out one of my oldest closest friends was gay, and it exploded all my stereotypes and prejudices.

He came out in our High-school, which was a very tough thing to do at the school we went to. We lived in a very small, very conservative, everybody knows you or at least somebody who knows you type of community. And dude was a featherweight.

At first I was like "dude don't even joke about stuff like that", I mean, we had even had a fistfight over a girl. He told me he had been that way for a long time. I got pissed at him, I felt betrayed. But I have always been a logical philosophical thinker, and it dawned on me that he was the exact same person he was the day before he told me, I just now knew a few more things about him than I did the day before, the least of which was his sexual preference.

For instance, I knew that he considered me to be such a good and trustworthy friend that he trusted me with the information about a month before he told everybody else.

I also knew he had more balls than anybody I had ever known, which destroyed my stereotypical thinking that homosexuals are all cowardly pansies. Here he is practically the smallest kid in our school, telling everybody (folks you remember what high-school was like right?) that he was gay. Here that was tantamount to wearing a sign that read "please kick my butt". Heck I was a big guy and I got my butt kicked for having a mohawk. What he did was even worse than that.

Eventually I realized that I respected him more than I ever did for having the trust in me, and the personal courage that he did.

I still worry about him spiritually, and I do not think that homosexuality is normal. I do not however believe that what someone does in the privacy of their own bedroom, which has absolutely 0 effect on me and my life, is anything that God needs me to sit in judgement on.

Quite frankly, I believe that God gave us freewill for a reason. God Himself chose not to impose His will upon us. I really don't think that I should have the right to impose it (or my own) on others FOR Him in light of that fact.

Anyway, I don't dislike gays. I disagree with their lifestyle choice, and worry and pray for them spiritually. Why particularly do you dislike them?

Answer 8

My best friend from High School is gay. He fought this for years. He finally had to come to the realization that he was attracted to men (not little boys) not women. As he so succintctly put it to me: "If I really had a choice, don't you think I'd choose to be straight?"
p.s. No amount of some preacher hollering at you can make you "change."
At LEAST 15-20% of the population is gay. I'll bet a much larger percentage of Americans take medication for, or are, depressed.

Answer 9

There is a falsehood right there in the beginning of your statement. "Most Homosexuals" do not say that being gay "is a part of their DNA." Yes, they do say that they were born gay, but they do not say that it is genetic. "Most Homosexuals" do not say that.

I am gay and I will agree with only one part of your statement. The word "homophobia" is being misused in today's culture. A person who believes that homosexuality is based on a "mental state of mind," does not deserve to be called "homophobic." I have tried, on more than one occasion, to dissuade other gays from saying that.

Answer 10

Prejudice and bigotry are recognized psychiatric defects. And those who hate others just because they are different are sad.

All our brains are wired to find certain people attractive. Two decades of medical research have shown that the tendency toward homosexuality is genetic.

Note the word "tendency". And that many are bi-sexual, finding people of both genders attractive, cuts against your argument more than it supports it. So does the fact that scientifically about 1% of vertebrates from many different species show homosexual tendencies. Which pretty much destroys any argument that it's not "natural".

You're entitled to your opinion about whether you like gays or not. But opinion stops where hate-based actions begin.

Answer 11

Just as there is an extreme difference between genophobia and a moral disapproval of sex, there is also an extreme difference between homophobia and a moral disapproval of homosexuality.

Homophobia is the irrational fear of homosexuals, homosexuality, or any behavior, belief, or attitude of self or others, which doesn’t conform to rigid sex-role stereotypes. It is the fear that enforces sexism and heterosexism. The extreme behavior of homophobia is violence. This includes the fear of being homosexual as well.

The morality of homosexuality is subjective -- it is up to you to determine whether or not homosexuality is immoral.

The "normalcy" or homosexuality, or lack thereof, is as irrelevant as the normalcy of dyed hair, tattoos, and piercings.

The naturalness of homosexuality is objective. It occurs in nature and is therefore natural. End of discussion...

Unless, of course, we get into the philisophical debate of whether or not things ought to be used for what they were designed to be used...but then again, that fails to account for human resourcfulness. If a magnifying glass were designed to magnify things, then it would be unnatural to use it to start a fire.

From a legal perspective, we can look to the constitution:

"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Laws do not exist to enforce morality or to "protect" society's traditions. They exist to ensure justice, domestic tranquility, to provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure liberty. Traditions, such as arranged marriage, come and go.

Defense of Traditional Marriage is not a defensive action. To view it as such is to decieve oneself into believing that they are protecting something that is threatened. Non-traditional marriages pose no threat to traditional marriages.

Additionally, I introduce you to the development of the embryo in the womb. All humans start out being physically female, even though genetically they may be male.

Hopefully, I have answered your question (whatever it may have been).