Do You Agree With Homosexuality?

Question

I am not ignorant,i would not say i was homophobic although i do not agree being gay is " normal "
I don't wish to upset anyone or cause offence with my question i just want other peoples views.
I recently discovered my brother is gay and i have gay friends and while it does not change how i feel about them,i just cannot accept that being gay is normal.
I'm a christian but do not go to church so it's not as if homophobia has been brainwashed into me,it is just how i feel.

I SAID I DID NOT WANT TO OFFEND ANYONE I WAS USING MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH TO SAY HOW I FEEL AND WANTED TO HEAR PEOPLES VIEWSI DID NOT EXPECT TO GET SLAGGED OFF,I HAVE NOT SAID GAY PEOPLE ARE DISGUSTING AND SHOULD ALL BE EXECUTED,I DO NOT APPRECIATE BEING CALLED A SLAG JUST FOR WANT OF A DISCUSSION!
MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE SAID "USUAL" MAN/WOMAN!INSTEAD OF "NORMAL"

Answer 1

I am gay and glad to see that you are not homophobic and have gay friends personally i cant see anything wrong with being gay I have a partner who I live with we are very happy together to us it is being normal it is our way of life and we don't force our views and feelings on other people we get on with our lives and have both straight and gay friends what is abnormal to one person is normal to another everybody is different and we all have our own views

Answer 2

Everyone has the right to feel they want to feel.

If everyone in the world was the same with the same feelings what a sad place it would be.

Some people would say being a Christian isn't normal. Do you think there are no Gay Christians? cause I already know of one - your brother!!!

Maybe when you get a little older you will become a little wiser as you will come across many different types of people and you will find your opinions change or maybe they wont but that's your right you can feel exactly the way you want to

Never judge a book by it's cover and be careful how you chose your words as you say your not homophobic but you say being gay is not normal!

Answer 3

A fair question, honesty asked. I would begin by asking yourself what the word 'normal' means to you and if it is really a goal that any human should aspire to. Normality means being the same as others. Certainly as members of the same species we have much in common, but what we tend to hold most dear are the things that make us different; different interests, different appearance, different jobs, etc. Gay and straight are broad catagorizations, but I suspect that just as each of us has a different personality, fingerprint, imagination etc, so we have our own individual sexuality. As long as we only engage in activities with consenting adults, why should that be a problem.
On the subject of Christianity I would simply point out that although St. Paul and many of the old testament texts seem obsessed by homosexuality, Jesus himself has nothing to say on the subject. Although I am not a Chrstian, it seems likely to me, that ,should it have been such an important issue as some seem now to think, he might have open his mouth on the subject at least once.

Answer 4

If you're Christian you should be following the New Testament, as in the words and actions of Christ. Christ had more on his hands than gaybashing, in fact the new testament is very vague on the topic. Jesus had a bigger message to spread.

Also if you're going to hide behind the bible, you'd better also hate adulterers, people who get divorces, and people who engage in premarital sex, because they're all sinners too. Also you'd better stone your children if they rebel, because the bible says so. Point is, I can back up any argument for anything using the bible. Maybe we should use the bigger message of being good people, instead of nitpicking.

As for normal, homosexuality is normal. There's a study that says that the "gay gene" makes the mothers of gay children more fertile, thus they have more kids, but it makes her children more likely to be homosexuals.

In the end though, I think you're looking for someone to come and tell you that gay is great. Your entire question seems to be a search for justification that you're not a bad person for having thought that gay is wrong, and justification for thinking that gay is fine.

I say look at your brother, and ask yourself if he's a bad person just because of his sexuality. Does this one aspect of his life make him wrong? Can you judge him based only on this one tiny part of him? Then look at your gay friends, and ask the same, are they evil based just on this one little fact?

Or should you just not judge them, lest you be judged?

Answer 5

Two points -

1) Do you agree with people having a different eye color, or hair color, or handed-ness than you? I'm sure you can see that this is not something to agree or disagree with, it just is. Humans vary - orientation is just one of the ways. Both LGBT and straight orientations are perfectly normal.

2) You can believe anything you want. However, if you were to trot out hatred and prejudice in the form of hate speech in a public forum, this is specifically NOT covered as "free speech." This is because the sole intent of such speech is to harm, defame, or injure others - like yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater.
Anti-LGBT hate speech has been shown to incite anti-LGBT violence. So again, believe anything you want, but one must be prepared for the consequences if they commit hate speech in a public forum.

Answer 6

Homosexuality is not abnormal. You were not raised to know or accept it and so you see it as abnormal. The fact is, nature makes some of us gay, just as it has since the beginning of time - you can't blame gay people because nobody ever told you all about it! Homosexuality is not an illness or a hormonal defect. Gays people fall in love as deeply, if not more than straight people. I haaate it when the idiots come out here saying "it's against god because gays can't reproduce!" GAY PEOPLE CAN REPRODUCE. Like it or not, there's nothing "wrong" with being homosexual.

Answer 7

Well I'm not gay myself so I can't "agree" with it. But I certainly don't disagree with it.

Science has no answer right now, but they don't have an answer for a lot of things and I'm not worried about it.

I have gay friends. They say they knew from a very young age, it was the way they had always been- I don't question that. What do I know about what happens in their minds? How could I possibly suggest that it isn't natural when they assure me it is, for them? There's plenty of things about my personality/lifestyle that other people don't understand, cuz it wouldn't come naturally to them.

If your own brother is telling you that's the way he is... well, that's all I would need to accept it as natural.

Answer 8

It's not right for me so there is no way I can understand it. I don't consider gay people as different than anyone else though. There are good and bad in everyone. There's a gay guy my gf talks to as a friend. She says, "love you" before she hangs up. It doesn't bother me. If it was a straight guy I would be P.O.'d.

Answer 9

The thing of it is, you asked your question in a gay-lesbian forum. What opinions did you expect to get? It's as if you'd walked into your local church and asked the parishioners if they believed in God after declaring your own belief that the Bible is nothing but a collection of fairy tales. Ge it?

Answer 10

i think, because of religious beliefs in the past that are still around today, many people are still unaccepting of homosexuals. as it becomes more common, more people see it as "normal" but as gays are still the minority, in a way they will always be seen as "not normal." to me, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being gay, i have friends who are and i love them dearly, i dont see them or treat them different to my friends who are straight. i think homophobia is totally unacceptable, i don't really understand people who are. let people get on with their lives. coming to terms with their sexuality must be hard enough without having people tease them or avoid them. just my opinion.