The "anti-gay patch": I've gotta ask: for or against?

Question

If there was any kind of pre-natal therapy that had a resonable chance of assuring that your offspring would not be gay, with no adverse side affects or any other influence on their personalities, would you use it?

I'm gay and I would. I would want my kids to have every possible advantage in the world, and to have the greatest number of potential partners to choose from. In the same way, I'd also go for something to increase the chances of right-handedness.

The sentiment on the radio yesterday (expressed by straights) was that we gays are so in love with our "life styles" that we'd unquestionably wish it on everyone, most especially our kids.

How say you?

I didn't say anything about being gay not being "normal." Some of you are reading too much into this question.

Answer 1

Thats really sad how our society has ingrained in you what "normal" is. If there were such a patch, and I really don't think there ever will be, I would not use it. I would let my baby be exactly who they are supposed to be.

Answer 2

you're gay and you would? while I find that pretty shocking, I'd have to say absolutely not! I doubt any such thing would ever be invented, but I find it ludicrous. you can't change who you innately are...whether it's sexual orientation, race, culture, right or left-handed, brown or blue-eyed. why couldn't a child have every possible advantage no matter who they are? yes, there are still ignorant bigots out there...but the world and the laws are changing for the better.
I am who I am....how God created me. I don't live a "lifestyle," I live my life. I am out and accepted by my friends, family and coworkers. I spent a lot of years afraid of what the world would think, and hiding in the closet. and all I realized, is how much time I wasted being afraid.

Answer 3

Interesting, and surprising. I notice that many of the "nays" think being gay is something people decide on sometime in their lives, however, and that many straight people don't really comprehend the depth of the burden of being gay, while the gay respondents are merely voicing their own acceptance of their homosexuality at this stage in their lives, not what they might be sparing their children.

I'm not persuaded by these arguments. I grant (and have argued) that being gay may well be part of God's (or nature's) design. But I suspect too many of the arguments are more political than sincere. I'd still use it.

Answer 4

I am straight, but it makes no difference to me what my children's sexual preference is. I will accept them for who they are & LOVE them unconditionally. I think it is a bit selfish to wish that your kids won't be gay. I don't really think it matters one way or the other. Being gay, can sometimes be considered a harder lifestyle with all the cruddy things that can happen... teasing, etc... but hey, with the right kind of support, it can be something that causes alot of inner growth in a person. Learning to deal with the fact that you are an original, and not like any one else is always a good lesson to learn for any one. Like yourself... LOVE yourself! Don't ever care what any one else thinks! Grow strong in confidence, and you will go far!

I would never use that patch! Who cares if it's easier, or if people are prejudice! Hopefully, in the future it won't be so difficult to announce that you are gay! Hopefully, more kids will just never hide it because they've been told there's nothing wrong with it!

Good wishes for a better future with more open-minded people! :o)

Hey... an open-mindedness patch would be so much better!!!!
While we're at it, why not a non-judgemental patch too!!!!?
Anti- selfishness patch? What else?

Answer 5

Being "straight" i have no factual idea why other folks are
homosexual, I would not encourage that lifestyle in my children,
nor turn them away if it happened to occur. Not knowing if
homosexuality is a physical/mental malady, deformity, or
indeed just another model of creation, although I speak against
the lifestyle based on my own gut feeling, I truly believe that
in substance, none of God's creation selects a life style other
than abandonment of his teachings. To judge is for God alone

God Bless and take my ramblings for however much/little they're worth

Answer 6

So they're saying we push our livestyles on other people? That's not entirely true. There are a few homosexuals who will try to convert others to homosexuality but then who are the heterosexuals to judge us about how we treat our lifestyles when we constantly have them in our faces shoving the bible down our throat as some sort of "stability" of their proof that we too should infact be heterosexual

Answer 7

I wouldn't use a patch or anything like that. I would want my children to be who they are. I do not wish for my child to have a lifestyle like mine for all them people out there to hate. It is a hard life. I also would not push them away from it nor push them toward it. They have their own minds. I would let them decide without ever bringing it up.

Answer 8

No I would not buy the anti-gay patch. I really don't care what the sexual orientation would be of my child. As long as I knew that I raised them right and they knew what was acceptable. You can't try to control nature. Just let it happen.

Answer 9

This is difficult to answer, because I am not convinced that being gay is an inherited trait. I know some identical twins; one is gay, the other straight. Since they are identical, the trait should be the same in both if it were hereditary. If it could be proven that it was "curable" before birth, I would have to say, yes, do it. In my opinion, it would save them so much heartache and difficulties later in life.

Answer 10

I would want my kids to be who they were without modifying them even if life was a little harder for them, because denying them the chance to be who they could be closing doors for them later in life that would have made them truly happy rather than simply existing contently.