DO you think people are gay by choice or are they born that way ?

Question

And .. can anyone that is gay be converted to being heterosexual ? How can this be done ?

Answer 1

It is scientifically proven that they are born that way, even some church members are starting to admit it.

Answer 2

This is just one of many many nature-nurture questions. Part of the answer to most of them is that it's almost certainly not just one of them. Of course, the main question remains: how much of it is nature and how much nurture.

What's more: nature and nurture break down into smaller parts: is homosexuality genetic? Is it to do with something that happens in the womb? Is it down to parental influence? Influence of others? Non-human influences? Is it a genetic response triggered by some environmental factor? Is it a choice?

More realistically: what combination of these factors, and others, can explain homosexuality.

But then there's even a problem of defining homosexuality: how much is it categorical, how much a continuum? Or is it not 1-dimensional at all, and more like a colour-chart?

My instinct is that sexuality is more like a colour chart, but on which society has imposed categories to which people are drawn. And I also think that different combinations of the factors I listed above lead to different positions on this chart.

But that's just my gut feeling: this is an empirical question that needs proper, well-conducted empirical research. A priori reasoning does not get us terribly far at all.

I would add, on the other hand, that the tabula rasa view ("you know nothing until you are taught") is not very popular now in its strong sense (you know absolutely nothing till you're taught), and with good reason.

Answer 3

I have several points:

1) No one is "born gay." (The notion that they are is one of today's hugest frauds. There is NO credible scientific research that backs this up);
2) HOWEVER -- no one "chooses" to be gay, either. Did you choose to be heterosexual? Probably not;
3) Psychologists tell us being gay is the result of a complex mix of factors, beginning with early childhood, such as estrangement from the same-sex parent, etc.;
4) ANY behavior can be changed, including sexual preference. Behavior modification techniques have been around quite some time;
5) There are many people who have abandoned the gay lifestyle. Check out a Christian ministry called Exodus International for more details.

Answer 4

I think it works both ways and YES I knew a girl who worked with the gay community and ALL of them hit up on her because "they wanted to see what it was like to do it with a girl."

The only truely negative thing I see about homosexuality is that are 98% about sexual gratification with another person and they get it most of the time because they don't think anything of it. They are about gratification.

Heterosexuality doesn't work that way. Yes it is about 98% of the time looking for it, but you only get it 50% of the time.

As to why heteros turn homo, it's because they can't live with that low a precentage. They are fat, ulgy, zit faced with a horrible personality and few, if any, of the opposite sex welcomes them.

In the homosexual community they find eaiser gratification.

Not totally easy, but easier.

The closest thing we come to in the hetro scene is the prostitution scene in which someone pays for it

In the Hetero bar scene 80% of the guys get nothing, except a hangover

Not true in the homosexual bar scene. Most go there to pair and most will pair.

Answer 5

Who Is to Blame - You or Your Genes?

While genes may play a role in shaping our personalities, there clearly are other influences. A major factor is our environment, which has undergone radical changes in modern times. Concerning what today's youth are exposed to in popular entertainment, the book Boys Will Be Boys observes that it is unlikely that children will develop sound moral principles when they "grow up watching tens of thousands of hours of TV shows and films in which people are assaulted, shot, stabbed, disemboweled, chopped up, skinned, or dismembered, when children grow up listening to music which glorifies rape, suicide, drugs, alcohol, and bigotry."

Clearly, Satan, "the ruler of this world," has shaped an environment that caters to man's baser desires. And who can deny the powerful influence that such an environment exerts on all of us?—John 12:31; Ephesians 6:12; Revelation 12:9, 12.

Before the nation of Israel entered the Promised Land, Moses reminded the people of their responsibility before God, saying: "I have put life and death before you, the blessing and the malediction; and you must choose life in order that you may keep alive, you and your offspring, by loving Jehovah your God, by listening to his voice and by sticking to him." (Deuteronomy 30:19, 20)

Likewise today, each responsible individual is obliged to make a personal decision about serving God and meeting his requirements. The choice is yours.—Galatians 6:7, 8.

Answer 6

Being homosexual is a choice. Having an attraction for the same sex is something you may be born with. Part of the reason we are here is to learn how to control our earthly lusts. I do feel bad for those who have been afflicted with this lust. But to say it is alright with God to be homosexual is like saying it is alright for people to lie with one or several different members of the opposite sex just because someone in marriage does not satisfy them sexually. Or having sexual relations before marriage just because you love some one. It is wrong no matter how bad people want justify it in there mind.

Answer 7

Yes, they are born that way. In fact, a small artical in the Focus magizeen said that at least 20% of homosexuality in inhereted from the mother. The rest, I'm not sure of (I know what you're thinking, the rest comes from the fathers side. but not nesserally. it could just as easily be due to hormonal changes while in the whom).
As for converting them, I doubt it, and I wouldn't even try.

Answer 8

I believe they're born that way.
What I'd like to see is a heterosexual 'converted' to homosexuality.
Well, the fundies think it can go the other way, what's wrong with a little experiment, or is that too much like using science?

Answer 9

Homosexuality is a sin. You cannot say one is born that way because sin is a choice.
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshipped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity." [Romans 1:25-27]

Answer 10

People are born with the predisposition to be sexually attracted to one sex or the other. If it is a choice, can you recall when you "decided" to be attracted to the sex you prefer? I'd be fascinated to hear about it--I never "chose" to prefer men, I just was born that way.

Answer 11

Choice.

I don't care how much science says there is a defective gene in gay people, it can be controlled and corrected.

Just because alcoholism is genetic doesn't mean I have to be an alcoholic like my father/mother does it? No! I can fight it and live my life respectably in God's eyes, not society's.