People born gay?

Question

I personally don't believe that people are born gay. The science and philosophy of it just doesn't make sense....especially if you're a christian, like me. Why would God make someone gay, just to send them to hell for their wayof life? Even the "science" of it doesn't make sense....if gayness was some hereditary trait it would've died out since gay people can't reproduce. What do you think, and why? I'd love to hear different arguments with strong, and challenging premises. thanks!

Answer 1

God makes it clear several times in several places in the Bible that homosexuality is not part of His design, as for being Christian and being homosexual...it sounds as if you are trying to serve two masters...who do you put first?

Answer 2

I personally don't believe that people are born gay. (WHAT YOU BELIEVE ISN"T GOING TO CHANGE ANY OF THE FACTS) The science and philosophy of it just doesn't make sense....especially if you're a christian, like me. Why would God make someone gay, just to send them to hell for their wayof life? (YOU ASSUME YOU KNOW THE MIND OF GOD)Even the "science" of it doesn't make sense....if gayness was some hereditary trait it would've died out since gay people can't reproduce. (GAY PEOPLE REPRODUCE EVERY DAY, THEY HAVE CHILDREN, GAY PEOPLE ARE BORN ALL THE TIME. I HAVE A DAUGHTER THAT WAS BORN IN A HETEROSEXUAL MARRIAGE.) What do you think, and why? I'd love to hear different arguments with strong, and challenging premises. thanks!

I think your logic is biased and highly flawed. It's based on your beliefs not on facts. There are many creditable sources on this subject, you seem intellegent enough, read them and don't let your religion cloud your understanding of what you read.

Answer 3

Well, people believe alot of crazy things. I believe the "science" you are referring to is the so-called "gay-gene", which has yet to be located. Doesnt matter. I know I was born gay. I dont believe in God or hell, so I probably cant help you. However, "Why would God make someone gay, just to send them to hell for their wayof life?"
Well, it seems like something he might do, after reading the old testament, he was kind of a bastard in that part.

Answer 4

So you think people chose to be treated the way you seem to treat people?

You think people wake up one day and say, "Hey, I want to be outcasted by society and have to struggle to have people accept me".

I think not.

I'm writing more a few hours later because I have some things to bring up to you:

There are several psychological phenomenons that are said to be hereditary that one would have thought wouldn't be..Schizophrenia is said to be something that is hereditary yet most people who are schizophrenic do not end up reproducing and many people who are didn't have parents who were. Why should the phenomenon of homosexuality be any different? Researchers have said to have found a gene that they believe may effect the sexual preference of certain individuals. While I do not believe that every gay person is born gay, I do not think that you can overlook the countless homosexual people who say that they have felt attracted to the same sex since they were small children.

God makes people in many different ways. When you think about it, and you say you're a true Christian, then you probably believe in fate or destiny. If we are all destined to become something in life and it's all part of God's plan then what do you have to say for people who are inheritely mean? If it's all part of God's plan then each and every one of us has something that keeps us from God or brings us closer to God.

God calls us to love all people....gay/straight, black/white, young/old, male/female, democrat/republican, rich/poor, sinner/perfect you name it. I personally do not think that being gay is a sin or that people are cast into hell for homosexuality.

Most of the Hebrew laws in the old testament (the story of sodom and Gamorah) were done away with when Jesus brought forth the new testament/covenant to the people. The new testament mentions no law forbidding the act of homosexuality. If you'll do the research, the old testament forbids the consumption of pork and all pork by products but do you think that all pork eaters are going to be cast into hell? The Hebrew laws set forth in the old testament were God's way of protecting the lineage of Christ. Once Christ's purpose on earth had been fulfilled, the old testament was no longer needed....Does this make sense? Obviously, the lineage of christ would have been interupted by a society of homosexuals (the whole inability to reproduce thing) just as the consumption of pork byproducts could have had created problems with the lineage of Christ.

There are some christians who do not believe that homosexuality is a sin and do believe that people are born with the tendencies to be gay. I am one of those Christians.

Feel free to email me, I'd love to discuss this more with you.

Answer 5

Yes, I believe that people are born gay. It's not a choice that the person makes, so that would imply that they are hard wired that way.

Maybe it's possible that God doesn't actually send gay people to hell. Just a thought. Maybe that is man's way to keep biases on people...much like women weren't supposed to be in church (or temple) a week before their period, during their period or a week after their period. That's pretty much 3/4 of the year...roughly.

I think that as Christians (or any religion, really) we have to remember that while our religious texts have been divinely inspired, it was still man (again, general) that physically had to write and edit the books. Even within Christianity there are books in the Catholic Bible that aren't in the Protestant Bible. Sadly there is bound to be some man-made errors that occur.

Answer 6

First of all I will try not to be to offended but I am.. I am gay and I am a Christian. Ignorance does not fit the comment that you made when you say that the gayness would have died out....Women can reproduce and so do men and they produce gay children... No person would choose to be gay and go through life being discriminated, teased, and ridiculed by people.. Man says gays go to hell. God does not say that..

I have heard these comments or opinions over and over and it is very old.. There are millions of men and women who happen to be gay who have loving families, successful jobs, houses and have wonderful loving relationships with their partners, pay taxes and are well adjusted and most have children whether its by adoption and/or biologically conceived.

Answer 7

Oh I agree, people love being part of a minority. Why fit in when you can CHOOSE not to. When you can CHOOSE to risk having your parents kick you out and disown you. When you can CHOOSE to be hated by people who don't even know you.

Give me a break, the illogical part is to think that anyone would choose this. It makes no sense.

That's like saying that people choose to have cerebral palsy, or autism.

We know it's there, it must serve a purpose. Some research says that women who have gay children are more fertile than those who do not, so the same thing that makes them super-fertile also makes their kids gay. So maybe we're nature's way of signaling good fertility.

I will tell you one thing for sure, I didn't choose this. And I don't like people putting words in my mouth saying I did.

I've always been this way, I've never known any other way, I've never changed.

If you can choose, you're bi, I am not and I cannot.

Answer 8

You know, we see this type of thinking on here all the time. You people always bring up the can't reproduce crap. We can. Yeah, isn't that a shock. I'm a gay man and I have 2, count them 2 biological children. Yes, I had them with a woman, but I'm still gay and I reproduced. Have you? You know I am a christian, but I find it really hard to follow a bible, that has been proven to have been corrupted through each and every translation. Keep your religion to yourself. Because in all honesty, I'm comfortable with God and he's comfortable with me. He has given me so many blessing in my life. If being gay was so bad, do you really think that he would bless us like he has. Think about that one.

Answer 9

As a fellow heterosexual Christian believer I cannot follow your logic. Any true Christian admits that he or she has no clue who will or will not be condemned to anything. Christ was quite clear on judgment. He was also quite clear on instructing believers to follow in his footsteps, loving those around us, and providing for the needy. Of course he didn't say a word about homosexuality. Why is it you people follow Paul's teachings, quote Leviticus but still call yourselves Christian.

We are who we are born as. Gay or straight. As for your choosing to not believe the science or the evidence of the natural world around us, well with all respect so what? That's your choice and in no way changes truth. The natural world is full of examples of homosexual tendencies. Natural does not in any way mean hereditary.

I love to imagine what our world would be like if we spent as much time caring for the poor, taking care of the sick and trying to make this a better world as we do trying to prove a lie (homosexuality is a choice) to be true and attacking our gay brothers and sisters. In short what would our world be like if we actually followed the examples of Christ and so many other worthy teachers our world has known?

Answer 10

Being gay may not be genetic, but it's not a choice. Gayness is not compatible with fundamental Christian belief. And the causes are not a matter of "belief".

Answer 11

I always find it interesting when heterosexual people can't wrap their mind around how people are born gay. Of course you will never understand it. You were born straight, so to you, anything else seems "unnatural."

Let me put it this way. Would anyone *choose* to live a harder life for themselves? I'm quite content with being gay, but it certainly hasn't been an easy life.