Are people born gay?

Question

read this article and agree or refute it please.

http://www.newdirection.ca/a_biol.htm

Answer 1

i agree with what the article said. sorry, people are not born gay. God wouldn't call it a sin if He created you to be that way. That would be like calling it a sin to be short. It can't be helped. Homosexuality, however, is in a different group all together.

Answer 2

Well one thing that bothers me about the article in general is that the most recent reference he used was written 7 years ago, and many of them more than 10 years ago. I'm sure there has been a lot of research done on the subject since then. It is my opinion that people are born that way, I know many people who are gay and I don't think they chose it any more than I or anyone else chose to be straight. Another point I'd like to make is that whether or not they are born that way or become that way due to environment, the fact is it shouldn't matter. They are who they are. Christians say it themselves, nobody is without sin so I don't feel its something to make such a big deal about. Is being straight one of the 10 commandments? Is it one of the 7 deadly sins? No. So why is it that christians seem to lump it in with murder and stealing?

Answer 3

Just the gay ones are born gay.

Answer 4

Was I born gay?
No - I remember clearly when I was going through puberty, thinking to myself -
"Now that I know what sex is, I have a choice.

1. I can choose to be heterosexual and live a life content with the knowledge that I will be accepted by all humanity. I will marry a person of the opposite sex and raise a family just like my parents did. or-----

2. I can choose to be homosexual, and be despised and ridiculed by those on earth who think they have an inside line direct to their maker. I can then live through my teenage years under constant fear that I may be found out knowing that some of my heterosexual 'friends' would gladly beat me to a pulp than to be seen with a 'queer'. I could grow up with the constant dread that if my father found out, I could be ostracized and put out in the street. I could serve my country in the army under the constant threat that if they find out I will be dishonourably discharged. I could work on a job for 30 years knowing that if my Mormon boss ever found out, he would outright fire me, or at the very least refuse to give me a deserved promotion.

With the above 2 choices - what else could I do?

I chose to be homosexual of course.

Who wouldn't????

Answer 5

No, people are not born gay. However mankind is born into sin, therefore Homosexuality being one of many sins it is true that mankind in his fallen sin nature has the propencity for homosexuality given the right environment as through traumatic childhood experiences like sexual assault.
If any Homosexual is willing to be honest they can trace their lifestyle to one particular horrible experience that brought forth this Demonic Oppression.

Answer 6

Here is a question that I always put to heterosexuals and Christians.....If homosexuality is a choice then heterosexuality is also a choice. So please tell me about the day you decided to be heterosexual. If you argue that one is a conscious choice, THEY ALL ARE!!! You can't have it both ways.

I have yet to meet the person that could, and for the life of me I don't remember choosing to be heterosexual. Because it isn't a choice. You are attracted to what you are attracted to. Does anyone ever choose to be attracted to blue eyes vs. brown or vise versa? To dark skin vs. light or vise versa? No!!! It is not a conscious choice.

I've had many homosexual friends who never chose to be, they just always were and I believe them. Because even as a little girl I liked boys. I didn't know why, I just did. And I never chose, I just am.

Answer 7

Well, I must admit I'm gay and I didn't just wake up one morning and tell myself that I wanted another man. I've always been attracted to men. I think some people have curiosities about the same gender but not an obsession. To answer the question...I think so.

Answer 8

I agree with willprincess, to think that God said homosexuality is an abomination and yet have people "born" gay - that is truly a contradiction in terms. The argument theologically speaking would be a nightmare. To think that God would create people to be born homosexual and then condemn those people to an eternity of hell - that's stupid. By the very fact that God calls homosexuality an abomination only leads to one answer - it is a willful choice against the natural programing of the human speices.

Answer 9

The real answer is that it doesn't really matter. Whether someone is genetically gay, becomes gay because of some physical trait that is not genetic, or just prefers the same sex partner over the opposite sex just doesn't really matter. It makes being gay no more right or wrong.

Answer 10

http://www.newdirection.ca is a religious site

here are REAL science journals:

Missing gene makes male mice switch sex - http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn548
Homosexuality is biological, suggests gay sheep study - http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3008
homosexual men inherit a gene from their mothers that influences sexual orientation - http://www-cgi.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/scotts/OldFiles/bulgarians/nih-upi.html
Survival of genetic homosexual traits explained - http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6519
Study links older brothers, homosexuality - http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=3e3dc349-8684-48fc-a219-96f13d1c3d34&k=55311
Homosexual behaviour observed in almost every kind of animal - http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/queercreatures/
Pheromone attracts straight women and gay men - http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7358

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