yes or no
2006-12-08 12:18:29 · 41 answers · asked by Kismet 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
relax people. did i even state my opinion? it's just a polling of yours. no need to get bitey.
2006-12-08 12:25:09 · update #1
you can't say homosexuality isn't a choice, but then say acting upon it is. that's an unnessary statement because it's already implied. acting upon anything is a choice, same as acting upon heterosexual impulses. i'm referring to the desire alone. thank you captain obvious.
2006-12-08 19:36:57 · update #2
i was thinking about this today actually...
and i was remembering a little boy who was in my daughters class at school
he was about 5 years old when it was plainly obvious he was more efeminite than the other boys ...
he would dress up with my girl .. but more than just play
he was a lovely boy , but all the signs were there
now he is 16 and very openly gay
now i have to ask ...
if this is choice ... how does a 5 year old make that choice
if this is evil ... why would God allow that to happen to a child
in my opinion ..... we are who we are , and born that way
we are all wonderfully unique individuals
2006-12-08 12:27:06 · answer #1 · answered by Peace 7 · 7⤊ 3⤋
As per any interpersonal relationship humans have, it's not purely a choice.
Genetics have a factor, life happenings have a factor, surroundings have a factor(if you don't believe that last one look up the suicide stats for those who are who come from religious areas),
So probably, no. But in some it may well be.
Those some who can make an active choice over who they are going to persue the attractions with would be the only ones who it is a choice.
2006-12-08 12:32:27 · answer #2 · answered by distind 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Having a disposition to same sex attraction is a result of social conditioning such as from a bad relationship with one or both parents or an early experience of being molested as a child, not genetics.
Now with it becoming politically incorrect to say that there is anything disordered about it, kids will be experiencing peer pressure more and more to accept it and to even try it or they will be labeled as "homophobic" or "intolerant".
If it were genetics, they would be a breed that would have naturally died out since they don't procreate.
The act of someone engaging in homosexual sex is a choice, not genetics.
2006-12-08 12:28:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
NO..... I do not think homosexuality is a choice. Just think of it this way. If it was a "choice" why would anyone in there right mind chose this lifestyle and be constantly made fun of and ridiculed? In this cruel world I think it would be equivalent to handing someone a gun but have on a shirt with a bows eye that says "shoot me"
No I'm not homosexual but my 17 year old nephew is. He feels he was "born this way".
Is Sexual Orientation a Choice?
No, human beings can not choose to be either gay or straight. Sexual orientation emerges for most people in early adolescence without any prior sexual experience. Although we can choose whether to act on our feelings, psychologists do not consider sexual orientation to be a conscious choice that can be voluntarily changed. <----AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
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2006-12-08 12:27:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Homosexuality is a lifestyle that is chosen by a person who God selected to be a Eunuch. Eunuchs allow the devil to lie them that God doesnt love them and that He doesnt have a purpose for them, and nobody accepts them. We christians can accept an Eunuch but not a homosexual.
Matthew19:12
2006-12-08 14:12:26 · answer #5 · answered by Nile Queen 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course not. Why would the leader of a huge evangelical fundamentalist church choose to be gay? Why would most people choose to be part of a group with such hatred directed towards them? Yeah, sure, maybe a few, but, jeez, there aren't even as many goths as gay or bi people, and goths don't have the law against them.
Also, there recorded instances of homosexuality among many animal populations. You can't tell me those two penguins at that one zoo who adopted an egg together were making a choice against God and their society.
2006-12-08 12:25:26 · answer #6 · answered by random6x7 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Sure, I remember distinctly around the age of 12 or 13 thinking, Okay, it's time to develop sexually now after a decade of being completely unaware of those things, so which one shall I go for? I weighed up the pros and cons of each - less persecution, BUT better taste in clothes and art - and I made a conscious choice to be heterosexual. Surely everyone remembers that special time in their lives when they chose to be het?
And apparently gays use that time to choose to be gay as well, but I'm not gay so I can only assume they were the same as me when they made that choice.
2006-12-08 12:31:20 · answer #7 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Considering the agonizing struggle that some homosexuals go through when first discovering their homosexuality, as well as the social torture that many endure, no. It is no more a choice than the sexual urges that heterosexual people experience.
2006-12-08 12:27:03 · answer #8 · answered by Lone 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋
I think probably people are born with a predisposition for homosexuality. It is possible that people may be born with a predisposition for violence, so why not homosexuality as well? I personally believe that as long as you are harming no one, you should live your life in a way that makes you happy, but then again, I am not Christian. I wonder why more Christians don't think someone could be born gay. I mean looking at it from a religious view point, could you not debate that it is a hardship that God might want someone to overcome. (I don't see it this way, but why wouldn't Christians?) Religiously speaking, it makes sense does it not?
2006-12-08 12:24:25 · answer #9 · answered by Amanda D 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Yes
2006-12-08 12:25:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋