Christians.....Gay people are born gay?

Question

I'm not trying to make people mad here...I just want some opinions. Would you say it's reasonable to think that if your gay (born gay or became gay later in life, either way) that you should not peruse your sexual urges in order to stay true to word of God? Sort of like a pedophile that has urges towards children. Sure they have these urges but that doesn't mean its ok to follow through with them. And who hasn't had a bi fantasy at one time or another???? Most do not follow through with it because they know it's wrong.
What do you think? And yes I'm ready to get bashed so go ahead.

Answer 1

Yes, most gay people are born that way, but realistically most people are more complex than gay, straight, or bi...

Scientific reasearch shows that hormonal influence at certain stages in embrionic development will determine what sexual role or preference an animal will have as an adult...

"Peruse" means to read through with thoroughness or care: to peruse a report,
2. to read,
3. to survey or examine in detail,
and I hope that God (if he existed,) would want his creations to experience the pleasures he designed them to seek out...but I think you meant something else by that...

Answer 2

Human sexuality is determined at birth, just as it is with other animals. In fact, bisexual and homosexual behavior has been documented in more than 450 animal species worldwide. The book Biological Exuberance is a great compilation of this research. There are just as many gays and lesbians now as there ever were before -- about 10% of the overall population. This is true everywhere in the world. The only difference is how open people are able to be about their sexuality. Needless to say, in countries where homosexuality is illegal, gay culture is driven underground.

Answer 3

Looking at it from your perspective, that it is wrong to be gay, your argument holds water. Having negative thoughts does not mean you must act upon them. If it did, my car insurance would be much higher. What you're saying is that whether homosexuality is a choice or something you are born having, you can still choose not to engage in homosexual acts. That's a perfectly reasonable statement to make, and is just like saying alcoholics are born with the potential to abuse alcohol but choose not to drink.

Answer 4

People aren't born gay.

"If you turn to doing good, will there not be an exaltation? But if you do not turn to doing good, there is sin crouching at the entrance, and for you is its craving; and will you, for your part, get the mastery over it?" -- Genesis 4:7

"But each one is tried by being drawn out and enticed by his own desire. Then the desire, when it has become fertile, gives birth to sin; in turn, sin, when it has been accomplished, brings forth death." -- James 1:14,15

God condemns homosexuality.

"What! Do YOU not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, ... will inherit God’s kingdom." -- 1 Corinthians 6:9,10

"... the males left the natural use of the female and became violently inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males, working what is obscene and receiving in themselves the full recompense, which was due for their error. " -- Romans 1:27

"And you must not lie down with a male the same as you lie down with a woman. It is a detestable thing." -- Leviticus 8:22


For more information go to:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/6/1a/article_01.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2005/4/8a/article_01.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/rq/article_10.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/2/1/article_02.htm

Answer 5

I am, and I was born that way. Were you born straight. Did you look at person of the same sex, and get turned on?

You all probably live in the Midwest and drive Kias. How can you answer the question if you are not gay?

Only God can judge me, and I've never met him. He didn't write the bible, people thousands of years ago did, and who knows what they did?

Before Christianity, ancient Greeks considered homesexuality natural.

In a few thousand years, people could look back and laugh at Christianity.

Answer 6

Most gay people are born gay. Yes.

There are some people who become sexually confused due to a sexually abusive childhood, but that is an entirely different matter.

As several gay people have told me, who in their right mind would think we choose to be gay? Who would choose to live with this much cruelty, often from family members?

I was born left handed. My first grade teacher tried to force me to become right handed. It didn’t work. Left handed is just how I’m made. Same thing for gay people. This is who they are.

Gay or straight, we should all act responsibly in our social lives and treat others with dignity and respect. Gay or straight, how we treat others always matters.

Answer 7

bash bash bash. Yes it is genetic. And, no I have never had Bi or Gay fantasies. Until we find the "Gay" gene, it will go unproven. Note that we have not found the gene for many many other afflictions, so not knowing it today means nothing. I am thinking of this from a scientific prospective. Also note that I am not gay.

And to add to what carl said above above.....

Are people born with a predisposition to be tall, or short, or artistic, or fast, or slow, or with down syndrome. Much of what we are is genetic.

Answer 8

I agree with you except for the god part.

Being a pedophile is harmful to children.
Being gay is not harmful to consenting adults.

We should always think before acting on our urges and natural desires.

Answer 9

I don't think its appropriate to compare gay people to pedophiles. Being attracted to members of your own gender is different than being attracted to young members of the other gender. Both gay and straight people could potentially have "urges" toward children.

As for your question, in order to stay "true" to word of God, you'd have to reject these urges since homosexuality is forbidden in the bible.

In my opinion, however, there is too much emphasis placed on homosexuality these days. If people would just learn to accept it, there'd be a lot less strife in the world.

Answer 10

You are NOT born gay. There is absolutely not medical evidence that would support that "theory". There is evidence to the contrary. Consider the following section of an article. (Complete article in the source below)

Yet, many homosexuals contend, through rationalization and the wresting of plain passages of scripture, that God has created them the way they are; that they have been genetically programmed by Him to righteously practice that which He condemns in all others! Such “illogic,” when fully developed, demands the irrational conclusion that a “genetic” homosexual would be sinning against heaven (would be separated from God / would be fallen from grace) if he were to violate his “divine” genetic makeup by taking a wife in accordance with God’s laws of marriage, i.e., “Have ye not read, that He which made them at the beginning made them male and female . . . For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they (male and female) shall be one flesh” (Matthew 19:4-5). In other words, the faulty logic of the homosexual demands the conclusion that if a heterosexual violates his or her “divine” genetic program by engaging in a homosexual act (and sins by so doing), then it must also follow, and is true, that if a homosexual violates his or her “divine” genetic program by engaging in scriptural marital sex, he or she also sins! How foolish! And yet, how revealing!

Can the homosexual scripturally or logically suggest why a just Father would genetically program His children to engage in inappropriate sexual activity that is clearly not compatible with their God-created anatomical design? I think not! If God is to be charged with such a “genetic” program, He must also then be charged with developing a plan involving opposing and contradictory design; a plan of confusion and disorderliness; a plan wherein (His) “genetic” design is incompatible with the (His) “anatomical” design of man and woman! Who, but the ungodly, would so foolishly charge their Creator (I Corinthians 14:33)?

This heretical rationalization (that genes dictate and change that which God has condemned into righteousness) has been advanced in print by many homosexual and lesbian groups: none of which can be reputably supported, scripturally, scientifically, or medically. It is interesting to note that many similar genetic studies and claims have also been advanced by worldly heterosexuals in order to justify their own involvement in adultery, divorce, thievery, drunkenness, lying, and spousal abuse! Where does is end?