2006-12-31 22:05:22 · 16 answers · asked by Oishi Sushi 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
It is a choice one makes on their own. Because GOD does not make a mistake. If you were born with a certain package that is what it should be used for. It was Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve. Life is full of choices what will I eat today, how do I dress today, where I choose to live, etc....
2007-01-01 01:22:29 · answer #1 · answered by butterman 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Honestly, all 3 points have never been proved or disproved. Sexuality is still a rather young field of study after all. As a child, I had crushes on girls, but as I reached puberty, I realised that I like boys more. I like their bodies, their personalities. And not matter how hard you try, I can't force yourself to like someone or something. So it is mostly instinct. However, if homosexuality is just a lifestyle or caused by their environment when they were young, that would mean that it can be changed. But reparative programs that claims to be able to make a gay person straight has only a success rate of 0.01 percent. A lot of people who claims that they've become straight don't stay straight for more than 5 years. So maybe some people are born gay. Nobody knows.
2007-01-01 03:33:26 · answer #2 · answered by renaudldw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing happened in my life that "caused" me to be sexually and emotionally attracted to other men.If anything, the dramatic things that occurred in my life where a result of me being gay rather then a cause for why I was gay.As far as a "lifestyle", I would like to know what a gay "lifestyle" is suppose to mean.If it means that I work, pay bills, pay taxes, buy groceries, have a few friends, keep in touch with family, have a meaningful relationship with my other half, and generally just try to have a happy life then I guess I must be living the gay "lifestyle".
Obviously, to me, choosing who I am attracted to and what sex they are is not like choosing what to eat for dinner.I never made any conscious choice in what sex I was attracted to and so I know that as far as I am concerned I am who I was born as.There was no choice.Anyone who thinks there is a choice admits that they have the ability and desire to sleep with a sex that the claim they would never do and the only reason they don't is because they choose not to.It is not like choosing between Burger King or McDonald's.
2006-12-31 22:47:14 · answer #3 · answered by BuckFush 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think some of the difficulty in swallowing a bitter pill that people should be born gay, is that babies have no overt sexuality. So,the very idea that they should've been born gay is anathemic (or controversial) to many who post this very question.
That it should be a lifestyle (or life choice), is half true in that non-heteros have to recognise and accept their sexual orientation. Else they can live in denial.
As for some dramatic effect, brought on by a trauma earlier in life, this implies that non-heterosexuality is a psychological dysfunction. Studies, by the APA have already disproved this notion. However a trauma can be the impetus in making a person evaluate their life and recognise their sexual orientation.
2007-01-01 01:39:53 · answer #4 · answered by unclefrunk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People are born gay, the same way people are born straight. You simply have an attraction to people of your own gender, or sometimes both genders (bi). Many people who are homosexual have had no "dramatic" events in their childhoods besides the ones that may have come from being openly gay.
The concept of homosexuality has been around for as long as humanity, whereas lifestyles have periods of evolution and decline. Therefore, most evidence points to it being from birth, although there is as yet no information as to what influences one to be gay, straight, bi, or otherwise.
2006-12-31 22:11:38 · answer #5 · answered by fairygothmommy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was born that way what evidence is there to get? I have loved women from when I first began to realize who I was and that was at age 6. Nothing dramatic happened to me, I was born into a normal medium class family, strong family values, religious catholic beliefs, strict disciplinary parents, I was raised right..I am just who I am..A lesbian and I love women..always have always will..give me a blood test..stick needles up my butt and you'll still get the same result..no gene, no childhood trauma, no brain damage..well not that i know of..and definately no weird, food, drug, or strange weather pattern, with aligned stars from aliens to when I was born..but then thats just me who knows how other lesbians came about..i don't think it was a mass conspiracy to go all over the world and make GLBT in every culture..but once again thats just me..peace~
2007-01-01 00:57:54 · answer #6 · answered by Charmer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about you? Are you straight or gay? We're you born that way? People like garfield say it's a choice to practice a "sick" lifestyle.I wonder if garfield chose to be straight(i.e. I've decided to be straight) or were you born that way?
I'm straight and I was born this way. This seems to be a perfectly acceptable explanation to people like garfield UNTIL they say their gay and were born that way. Gay people don't bother me, in fact I wonder why people are so homophobic. Are these homophobes scared that their gay. Seems like they protest a bit too much. Get a little turned on in the changing room for gym class in high school?Makes me think their taking their own self hate and projecting that hate at other people who are just like them deep down inside.
2006-12-31 22:19:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People are born just simply the way they are. No one chose to be a gay, bi or straight. Humans really cannot ask God to make them gay or bi or straight. It's natural.
We all already know that most typical straight people in this world always judge and accuse that being gay or lesbian is a choice you've made in your life, while it is not at all. In the opposite, gay and lesbian could ask in return to all straight people why they all become straight? Did they ask God to make them straight sexually?
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2006-12-31 22:45:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without a doubt people are born that way. A lot of religious folk like to think it's is a matter of free choice because they can't believe anybody would be "created" like that.
2006-12-31 22:14:35 · answer #9 · answered by Ted T 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
they are born that way. most dread facing the truth because they know it will be hard to come out, their family may shun them, and in general it's just hard to cope with (usually) on a day to day basis because there are a lot of people who discriminate against them. who would choose that lifestyle just for the heck of it? not many.
2006-12-31 22:13:42 · answer #10 · answered by bree 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋