Do you think "born gay" is just an attempt to justify sin?

Question

Do most homosexuals think they were born gay or just repeating what they hear from the gay community?

Answer 1

I think they are repeating the justification from the gay community.

Deep down they know its sin, but we nust show them love, not judgement.

David

Answer 2

I am homosexual. I did not choose to be gay.

I am also a devout Christian.

I believe that, regardless if homosexuals are born that way or not, the fact of the matter is that there are gays and lesbians in the world. There always have been.

There are homosexuals in Christianity, and homosexuals not in Christianity.

What I see, however, is the church on whole "repeating what they hear" from over the pulpit without actually researching the topic for themselves.

I have done a lot of research into this issue, not in an attempt to justify my sexual identity, but to find out what the bible really says about homosexuals. And what I have found is that there is no condemnation of homosexuals at all.

There is condemnation of sexual proclivity, of idol worship, but nothing against homosexuals who commit themselves in a monogamous, Christ-centered relationship.

Answer 3

I think this is another good example of a "loaded question" or injecting your presumptions into the answer. If the person answers "no" then they implicitly agree that homosexuality is a sin. You should define what you mean by "sin" also.

As for your second question, many people are basing their answers on personal experience. For instance, are you attracted to the opposite or same sex? Was there a period of time in which you didn't know which sex you should like, and maybe had to ask your mother or dad who you should be attracted to? Did you sit down and rationally decide which sexual attraction would give you the most benefit, without social stigma, rejection, etc? Are you saying you can possibly turn homosexual if someone persuades you enough?

I can honestly say that I never thought I was attracted to a male in my life. I didn't "choose" to be attracted to women, which is why I can never be gay. Once I developed a libido, my object of attraction happened to be the female and not male. The very basics of attraction are not a choice.

Answer 4

The scientific evidence, for example twin studies, is still sketchy but seems to point to a strong biological basis for having one sexual preference rather than another. I have yet to see any scientific evidence to refute this position. Although genetics might play some role, it is unlikely that there is a single "gay gene" with a one on one correspondance with sexual orientation. There rarely is such a simple relationship between genes and psychology, but this doesn't mean that genetics isn't important.

In reality we know about as much about what "causes" homosexuality as we do about what "causes" heterosexuality. The experience of most people, gay or otherwise, is that their essential orientation is a longstanding given, rather than a choice.

Where choice comes in is at the level of behaviour and identity. It would seem natural to me that behaviour and identity should be allowed to line up with essential orientation, but not everyone does make that choice for a variety of reasons, mainly cultural.

Answer 5

Can people be born gay... based on scientific facts the answer to this is a puzzling "yes". People are also born ignorant and agressive, but it does not excuse them from doing what is right (learning and tempering their angers). The bottom line is "sin is sin", just as I have to deal with the attractiveness of women on a day to day basis... I guess gay people have to deal with their hormones. I don't envy someone born with this, because for them it is a life of celebacy... the good news is that even if you are born with it, your attraction is not sin... it is your choices and actions that make it so.
Just remember that God can heal people of anything, this is no exception. I would recommend getting an accountability group (no more then 2 people) to help you with this and then get serious about God/prayer.

Answer 6

I think they believe they were born gay. I know alot of gay people and they say way would they want to put them self's though all the hard pain of being gay. I know alot has told me they try ed to fight those feelings from them self's and still they found them self liking the same sex. Some people believe it's a sickness. A sexually sickness that only few has had a enough will power though God to leave them away from homosexual life. I meant a girl in my church who was gay for 30 yrs. She spoke to us and said she now married with children and she said being gay was living in bondage. That's how she put it. And it was God (Jesus) who took her out of bondage. Don't matter want she did to try to stop being gay and tell her self she was born gay.She said she knew down deep inside she was wrong. I believe if a person going to be gay it's not because they hate it. It's because they like it. And who are you or I to judge that. God is the judge on this one. They are still God's people. And if we love Jesus we are to love all people, not just people who "we" think are living right.

Answer 7

Is a retard born mentally retarded, or does he make a conscious decision to be retarded?

Does a homosexual make the decision to be gay, or is it genetics and their psychology which they cannot control?

It is nature, not nuture, therefore they must be born gay.


Besides who cares, if some gay dude is a good person to other human beings, let him do whatever he wants behind closed doors (the whole marriage thing though, why do they have to use the same terminology as straights? Homos can call it "Garriage", and straights can call it "Marriage")

Anyway, "Whatever floats yer boat" as the expression goes...

Answer 8

Considering I had a crush on Bazooka from G.I. Joe when I was five and blowing kisses at a boy in my 3rd grade class named Matt (and was PROUD when he'd call me a gay-wad)... well... you think of any other reason a prepubescent boy raised in a traditional Christian nuclear family without any sexual overtones at those ages would have these things happen, and I'll consider the possibility that I wasn't born gay.

Answer 9

replace "homo" with "hetero" and "gay" with "straight" and you'll get your answer.

to the person above who quotes the gay references in the bible, i love how you cut out all the other people who will be banished to hell. like the back biters, and those who disobey their parents. and all of leviticus condemns each and every one of us, not just the gays. i'll bet you don't live by the leviticus code, and so how can you expect anyone else to? we are born straight, we are born gay, the only choice going on is whether or not you will support and love your gay neighbours, or condemn them and judge them.

Answer 10

im not gay so I really dont know. I have heard from most that they are born that way but I wouldnt really know since I have not personally experienced it.

Answer 11

Do most heterosexuals think that they became strait because that's what they were taught?

Can society really have that much authority over who you love?

No one can tell me who I love; I love who my heart tells me to love. I love the people that treat me with respect, who care about me, and who love me back.

I think gay people do the same thing. They are attracted to who they are attracted to, not because someone told them who to love, but because that's the person that peaked their romantic interest.

Isn't that how strait people fall in love?