What if it were a choice?(It's not). Being GLBT? I mean really how can some people get so upset about it,?

Question

It's only sex!! What possible difference could who we have sex with make to anyone in a world filled with people hating and killing each other on a constant basis..Sex is no more than eating and drinking and sleeping. It is a basic human hunger. Do you care what I had for dinner last night? or how many glasses of water?

Answer 1

What really matters to me is what color bath towel you used to shower this morning. This is the crucial information which gives my life meaning, and which i must intrude upon, if you dared to make a bath towel faux pas, earlier today.

So what color was it, wise guy? White, pink, or some jolly pastel, like a Miami beach hotel? Or do you have an S&M Vampire bath, with black and red Spanish passion Zorro body wipes?

Furthermore, what's the thread count? You must realize, that if you are lazy enough to own towels with a low thread count, then we cannot be friends.

And please, above all else, tell me you bought Egyptian cotton on sale at Macy's and not some IKEA knock-out made in Chinese slave labour camps! Please!!!

By the way, I cannot describe what we had for dinner last night, nor do i wish to remember . . .

Answer 2

Thank you! Exactly!

Sometimes I want to just scream "It's not a choice, but even if it were, it wouldn't be wrong!". We need to stop justifying our sexuality by using the genetic/innate basis of it, because that seems to send a message of "I'm so sorry that I do this awful, nasty, dirty, bad thing, but you see, I was born with it, there's nothing I can do, so if you could just please understand that and accept it, because I know it's wrong, but since I didn't choose it, I shouldn't be punished for it . . .". Whatever happened to homosexuality being exactly as morally neutral as any other sexual orientation?

I do believe that people should care about sex and what others do, because there are standards of morality in any sex- whatever they may happen to be. I don't believe people should emotionally hurt others with their sexual behavior, for instance. That doesn't mean that people don't deserve human respect for their choices in sexual behavior; they do. But not everything flies; I frown upon certain actions, but in the end, their choices are their own, and I let others live.

Hope that helps!

Answer 3

Personally, it doesn't bother me one way or the other. I was raised in a lesbian household. My mother had a wide range of Friends - gay, lesbian, well off, poor, black, Hispanic and yes, even "normal" (straight).

What I saw was another woman who took better care of my mother and her needs better than any man she had seen before. How can I believe that caring relationship was wrong? How can I deny my mother because of who she shares a bed with?

Her life partner taught me so, so much....how to cook a dinner, to sew, to paint and wallpaper, to fix the plumbing and work on a car. She taught me that I am worthy and smart; that I have something to offer the world and tat I could do just about anything I ever wanted to do. She was an enormously important person to my self-esteem and mental well being.

I defy anyone to prove to me this is wrong.

Answer 4

People are scared of something that is different from them. People can get something dead set in their mind and now want to adapt to someone being different then they are. People are afraid that if they do not put down LGBT's then others who are homophobic will think they are gay, just for not caring about someones sexuality and look at them as a person.
I am still the same person I was before I told my family I was gay. Even tho I never acted any different then I did before I told them, they treated me different, as if i had something that could rub off on them.

But people are afraid of change. People are afraid of what others will think of them,

Answer 5

Because people are control freaks, they think their right and no one else could possibly know half as much as they do. So if they think something is wrong then, it must be, because their the only person that matters.

It really shouldn't matter to anyone but unfortunately people can't conceive the idea that if something isn't right for them, it could possibly be right for someone else. (It's called ignorance)

But it does seem people are getting a bit more accepting which is great but we still have a long way to go.

Answer 6

well acutally, a need is something like shelter food and water, because without it youll die. a want however is something like clothes, electricity. the thing is which does sex fall under? for some people it may be different.

personally, i think that if being gay were a choice, it would be accepted more, probably because it would be more like a choice of music or clothes. so people might not see it as such a bit thing

Answer 7

People are scared by change. People have been GLBT since the beggining of time, crap look at the greek and romans, gay sex was a normal. Shakespeare wrote poems of love to a dude. People can just be dumb. One of my best friends a preachers son is gay and I love him just the same.

Answer 8

Even if it were a choice it would be no more or less legitimate than any other choice. Religion is a choice, some harass others for their religion yet the rights of those who have chosen a particular religion are protected and respected, why should LGBT be any different?

Answer 9

Lots of ppl have been programmed for centuries to believe that being gay is wrong. It's fear and has been going for so long that it's , unfortunately, been made part of human nature. It is sad that these ppl hate us so much, God created us too....

I really don't think God would have made us this way just to be ridiculed like this, hated, feared. But no one will know what it really is about 'til we all are no longer here. I don't mind waiting. But I won't feel bad for who I am.

Answer 10

As a gay man I can honestly say I'm about a lot more than just sex. Some people can't seem to fathom that.