What is the reason to ask Christians their opinion on whether or not somebody is born gay ?

Question

I see many questions directed to Christians in which they are asked if _they_ think gay people are born like that. That always strikes me as a bit funny.

It's like asking Norwegian people how it feels to be Chinese. Or like asking an Atheist what God looks like.

So, question to everybody: are you born with your own sexual preference?

Answer 1

Yes.

Once again your question is horribly misunderstood by 90% of respondents. How can someone possibly interpret "are you born with your own sexual preference?" to mean "what do you think the King James Bible says about homosexuality?" or "do you know any gay people who think sexuality is a choice?" It boggles the mind.

The only question I personally am qualified to answer is the one I am pretty sure you were asking: Did I, personally, choose my sexual preference, or was I born with it? I can answer without hesitation that I have been singularly and overwhelmingly attracted to women for as long as I can remember (first crush circa age 5, hottie I met in preschool).
However, I have some additional insight on this topic. I attended a very liberal college where 65% of the student body was male. To increase dating opportunities, most of my peers followed the sexual orientation known as BUG (bisexual until graduation). Without the restrictive social mores present in the rest of American society, it was pretty easy to 'experiment'. However, try as I might, every time I tried to get 'physical' with another guy, I experienced a total system malfunction, aka plumbing failure. I've heard similar experiences from gay guys I know who tried having sex with women, so I'm willing to hypothesize that this is what happens when you try to 'go against nature'.

So, not only have I been attracted exclusively to women for my entire life, but I actively TRIED batting for the other team and FAILED miserably. Therefore, based on all the empirical evidence that I personally can swear to, as well as the very best of my faculties of reason, I'd have to say that my own sexual orientation was never subject to free will.

Answer 2

This is a sad sad topic full of emotion etc. As a Christian I would say SEX OUTSIDE OF CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE IS SINFUL. That is ALL SEX! However, as a Christian I must love all people, be they murderers, theives, fornicators, adulterers and homosexuals if I am truly Christian. However, I do not love the act but the person. No Christian parent should ostracise a child who lives a homosexual life but love and pray for them in the hope they will change their way of life. This is very hard to do because some people are so ashamed. I have answered this question from an Orthodox Christian viewpoint and a Church that will never approve homosexuality. As for being born gay this is anopther matter...

Answer 3

1. What's the reason to ask a Christian this? Maybe as a litmus test of sorts to expose the fakes (or at least expose those who lean towards being open minded). Like you imply - no 'real' Christian should admit that people are born gay. That wouldn't fit the divine plan.
2. Yup, you're born with it - it's genetic.

Answer 4

your analogies do not correlate with your question but nevertheless, considering certain genes and birth abnormalities,(biology) it is possible for someone to be born with ambiguous sex physically as well as mentally. some people feel they were supposed to be born of the opposite sex and many psychologists back that assertion

Austrian scientists reported that switching a single gene was enough to make female fruit flies rebuff males and attempt to mate with other females. Swedish researchers recently found the sexual center of gay men's brains lit up when they sniffed a pheromone-like chemical from men's sweat, but didn't respond to a chemical from women.

And last fall, Italian scientists offered a possible explanation for the persistence of gay genes even though evolution tends to weed out traits that discourage reproduction. A team from the University of Padua found that mothers and aunts of gay men had more offspring than female relatives of heterosexuals, suggesting genes that influence homosexuality in men may increase fertility in females.

It is very possible thorough natural gene selection that people are born gay. For others it is a grown preference.

Answer 5

Natural laws deem attraction for reproduction based on sex.
If there were a genetic anomaly that were present it could not be passed on as the "gay "person could logically not reproduce.
Science has nothing to do with the continuation as it has only been possible for a short period. If there was a genetic trait for homosexuality it would have been bred out with evolution.
Yes evolution.
Homosexuality is a choice. It produces endorphins in the brain that likes it just like smoking or drinking. If you like it you continue if you don't you won't
Physiologically a fact and many a research has been done.
It is a preference, not a genetic trait.

Answer 6

Jesus, will you idiots stop quoting the bible at me? The bible isn't going to tell you how gays and lesbians feel and whether or not it's a choice, i'd have thought that much was obvious. If you're straight you can never know what it feels like so those of you who classify it as a choice are just purely misguided.

Gay people are born gay, i'll tell you that now for a fact. At no point in my life did I choose to be gay, I just realised that instead of fancying women, I fancied men, it's just that simple. And it's exactly the way straight guys feel about women, just about men. Simple, done.

To say it is a choice is just misguided. Why would people want to be with people they aren't attracted to? Why would people want to have to put up with all your crap to be with people they aren't attracted to? Get a grip, your position makes no sense.

Answer 7

The human body is simply not designed for gay sex. For that reason, nobody is born gay. Everybody is born straight.

Some people may think they're "born gay," but that makes no sense because our bodies are specifically designed, on a sexual level, to reproduce with members of the opposite sex.

People are pushing the "born gay" myth only because we live in an oversexed culture, and they feel the need to justify every sexual behavior -- no matter how disordered and unnatural.

If they can convince people that gays are "born that way," then they can score a lot of points in the behavioral-justification department. They can effectively immunize homosexuality from criticism, if they can convince people that homosexuality is "inborn."

But once they concede that nobody is "born gay," they lose this key argument. Which is why they'll never admit that nobody is born gay.

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Answer 8

You are implying that no Christians are gay. I am a Christian, and I was straight, then I was gay, but now I'm not. I don't believe I was born that way, but some choices made by me and some of the people around me led me to become susceptible to that lie. I wouldn't say I chose it directly, but choices altered my path so that I did become gay.

I think that the question is directed at Christians by people who do believe people are born that way. They are trying to make God look bad because they know that Christianity says homosexuality is a sin. If they can get Christians to say people are born that way, then God is mean and unfair. It's a roundabout way to dis on God some more. It's simple ignorance. If God says something is a sin, we can't do it. We all have natural tendencies to some sins, but we have the power to overcome through Jesus Christ. No one sin is any worse than any other, they just all have to be fought.

Answer 9

It does not matter. The gays are still humans and deserve basic human rights. They are not doing you or anybody else any harm. So live and let live.

edit. and all that the quotes from Romans tell us is about how hateful and paranoid the christians were and are.

Answer 10

If you are wanting a Bible answer to your question, then you would ask someone that knows something pertaining to the subject, from the Bible

And the answer to your question: "are you born with your own sexual preference?" My answer would be "NO"

The Bible does not call particular attention to homosexuals as a group to be ostracized or hated by Christians. Moreover, it does not teach that God will punish homosexuals or any of his creatures, by burning them in a fiery hell forever.

However, the Scriptures do set forth the moral standards of our Creator, which oftentimes run counter to modern-day mores. Homosexual acts, heterosexual sex between unmarried persons, and bestiality are all condemned in the Bible. (Exodus 22:19; Ephesians 5:3-5) God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of such sexual practices.

Regarding acts of homosexuality, God’s Word pointedly says: “This is a hateful thing.” (Leviticus 18:22, The New Jerusalem Bible) God’s Law to Israel stipulated: “When a man lies down with a male the same as one lies down with a woman, both of them have done a detestable thing. They should be put to death without fail.” (Leviticus 20:13) The same punishment was prescribed for those committing bestiality, incest, and adultery.

The apostle Paul was inspired to describe homosexual acts as expressions of “disgraceful sexual appetites” and as “contrary to nature.” He writes: “That is why God gave them up to disgraceful sexual appetites, for both their females changed the natural use of themselves into one contrary to nature; and likewise even the males left the natural use of the female and became violently inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males, working what is obscene and receiving in themselves the full recompense, which was due for their error. And just as they did not approve of holding God in accurate knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mental state, to do the things not fitting.”

The Scriptures offer no apologies, no concessions, no ambiguity; homosexual practices, adultery, fornication, are all repulsive in God’s sight. Accordingly, true Christians do not water down the Bible’s position on “disgraceful sexual appetites” merely to become more popular or more acceptable to modern culture. Nor do they agree with any movement dedicated to the promotion of homosexuality as a normal life-style.

When religious leaders campaign for the ordination of homosexuals and Lesbians, what effect does this have on members of their churches, especially the young people? Is it not an inducement to experiment with sex outside marriage? In contrast, God’s Word urges Christians to “flee from fornication.” (1 Corinthians 6:18) If a fellow believer falls into such sin, loving help is given with a view to restoring the person to God’s favor. (James 5:16, 19, 20) What if this help is rejected? The Bible states that unless such ones repent, they ‘will not inherit God’s kingdom.

Would it be just or loving to condemn a person for doing something that you yourself planned for him to be?