I was watching Montel this morning before taking my daughter out for the afternoon. Familys were sending thier own children to gay boot camps, to beat the gay out of them. I was shocked. I have a few gay family members, but it's not spoken of in my family much. I am a christian, but I can't imagine anyone choosing to be gay. I had a friend once in middle school tell me he was gay, he also said if he could take a pill to make him straight he'd take it in a heartbeat. Sad that so young knowing your sexuality is wrong and not liking who you are. I know how I feel, i'd like to see what others feel. Even being a christian my views are, God can't punish or damn the gay community. I know my God is a loving, compassionate, forgiving God and loves all.
2007-02-20 10:45:34 · 50 answers · asked by Nancy S 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
I am A christian!!! I also made the comment about him taking the magic pill to be straight, because in the 6th grade, and his parents he thought it was wrong, I did not mean it's wrong. The bible also says don't judge, or be judged. Love thy neighbor. Do you really think God will send gay men and women to Hell for being gay? MY GOD WILL NOT. He won't send you for being ignorant, uncompassionate. Wow the responces, I had no idea. I agree, you're born. I am overwhelmed with the hearltess responces. My daughter was born with Cerebral Palsey. she didn't choose to be born with it. Will God send her to hell? No she has a free ticket to heaven. She's allready accepted Jesus as her Saviour and also has compassion like her mother. Excuse any mispellings i'm a little upset. God forbid if any of you had a child born gay. Then would he or she go to hell? I'm done......God Bless all of you.
2007-02-20 11:57:49 · update #1
OK, for the 3,000th time this week, God makes people LGBT (or straight). It is not a choice, or sickness, or anything that requires "conversion" or "cure."
Most adult LGBT people who have come to terms with their natural sexual orientation (note: past grade school) will tell you that they would NOT take such a pill, and recognize God's gifts for what they are.
Your last two sentences sum up the truth perfectly. I hope you bring these out when confronted with anti-LGBT bigotry and hatred. Good for you!
(Just one more thing - you don't say the malarkey, "love the sinner, hate the sin," do you? People who say this usually hate both sinner AND sin and are speaking out of both sides of their face.
I didn't think so. :o)
2007-02-20 10:51:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 2⤋
Well, I was definitely born gay and in my opinion, so is every other gay person. It isn't possible to "beat the gay" out of someone. Those people are sick for sending their children to those camps. They should be sent to prison. You're right, no one chooses to be gay and if people had any sense, they would realize that. Nobody chooses to be straight. I think it is sad that so many religions have come to believe that the Bible thinks homosexuality is wrong. That is a misinterpretation. I believe God created me this way, and I will not let any religion tell me differently.
2007-02-20 13:01:28 · answer #2 · answered by Hmmm... 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I admire your compassion. I also know God loves me and I'm gay. I'm a Christian and have accepted Jesus as my savior. I personally think it's mostly being born into. Even when I was little I was thinking well she's cute but that's not right is it? I don't understand how people can send away their children. It makes me so sad.
2007-02-20 11:29:22 · answer #3 · answered by carissakayb 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God might be forgiving, but He isn't going to forgive someone who doesn't ask for it and isn't truly repentful, so if a person doesn't believe that they have done anything wrong, then they aren't going to ask or be repentful.
I have two gay brothers myself, but they and many of their friends have always contended that being gay is a choice. Even if one is born gay that person still chooses how they conduct their lives. And people who aren't born gay can choose that lifestyle. And people choose all sorts of lifestyles that others look down on with disgust and hatred, so using the excuse "nobody would choose to be gay if they weren't born that way" doesn't work. And if that excuse was true, then why are so many gay people against the idea of gene manipulation to make them not gay, since that would offer them a very realistic choice to not being gay? And since being gay is getting to be so acceptable than it ever was, with open talking about it and openly gay characters on TV, stage and film, it's becoming less hated and more or less fashionable. to either be gay or have a gay friend.
Additional: It's really funny how people who like to use the excuse that they were born gay and why would they choose to be that way otherwise, always bulk if that excuse is applied to other groups of people. So, why would anyone CHOOSE to be an Emo or Goth since they get so much crap from people about it? Must have been born that way. If alcoholism is hereditary, which would mean people are born that way, then why don't we accept alcoholics instead of trying to get them to change? Should I go on?
This is just a classic case of denial on the part of those gays.
2007-02-20 11:04:15 · answer #4 · answered by marklemoore 6 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I wasn't born gay but with the world like it is I think some believe they was born gay,I believe its attraction and you can fall in love with both sex male and female. Lets look back in time. Take the Greeks many of the men and some of the women was gay as you will say.
History is written by the victors. They choose what will be remembered, and what covered up. So it has been with male eros. Looking at any history textbook, one would think that never has a society praised love between men, never has a painter, a poet or a pope shared his bed and his heart with another male. Evidence of same-sex love has been either quietly suppressed, as with the Greeks and Romans, or quickly destroyed, as is still done with newly unearthed Inca and Mayan art. The result of this deception has been a needless polarization of society and untold suffering for those people who happen to fall in love with others of their own sex.
As a rule, male love was part of the social and religious fabric. From the city states of ancient Greece and Rome with its emperors
2007-02-20 10:55:10 · answer #5 · answered by Linda 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I didn't finish reading your description. But, I didn't choose to be gay, or I wasn't born gay. I don't know. Other gay people can say what the hell they choose but I'll tell you the truth. I figured out what it was, I was like nine when i had a crush on a guy. I was scared and I asked the guy out. To my surprise, he said yes. That was in the third grade. Now in ninth, we are still dating. The thing is, He was 12 when I asked him out in the third grade {he in fifth}. He explained to me, in a way i could barely understand, although I got the point, and he said, don't fight it or try to resist it, it will only ruin your life. So I accepted who I was. Get what I'm saying?
2007-02-20 16:46:23 · answer #6 · answered by Me..................... 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Among all the many answers above there seems to be something missing. Did anyone ever choose to be straight? Does anyone remermber, when they turned 13 or 14 sitting down and wondering, should I go for the opposite sex or stick with my own. You felt the way you felt about the boy or girl - depending which you were - and that was that. There was no choice involved.
2007-02-20 11:22:51 · answer #7 · answered by hironymus 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I have known that I was gay since I was a young lad. No sexual abuse, no gay family members, and I grew up in a very small farming and ranching community. If it were a choice, I can say for myself, why would you choose to be gay?? What kind of life can you expect out of it?? Hatred, disrespect, no legal rights, and to be outcast by friends and family members, why would we choose that path. I have been with my partner for over 13 years, no it has not always been easy, nor has it always been fun to get to this 38 years of life. If we are to speak of God, he told us to love thy neighbor. The bible is filled with many things, but as a gay man, I do not want someone to throw a bible quote at me. Show me that compassion and love, that is all we want and need.
There was definately no bad in what I wrote to you, I actually felt that you might also understand where I am coming from, I hope that you did not take offense to my coments. You are one strong person to live the life you will for the rest of your life and to not judge, yourself. I can only wish teh best for you and your family, as I hope for myself. Sometimes it is good to get things off our chests, but it looks like the people here would rather bash you, that is what I as a gay man have always dreaded all of my life. No exceptance, uneducation of people, and the fear that one day there will be someone out there who just hates me for no other reason other than I am gay.
2007-02-20 10:55:31 · answer #8 · answered by selms01 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Born
2007-02-20 10:48:17 · answer #9 · answered by Stuck in the middle of nowhere 7 · 8⤊ 2⤋
it is %100 a choice. I am a 18 year old boy and i thought i had feelings toward another male. I just kept telling myself that im not gay im not gay and looked at straight p_rn and now i have a gf and couldn't be happier. The choice is wheather to except the feelings or not.
2007-02-20 14:43:57 · answer #10 · answered by Jamie 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋