Homosexuals....did you choose to be "gay?"?

Question

Christians all over the R&S are claiming this. I don't buy it. But they claim it says it is a choice in their so call "good book."

Answer 1

I have more than one documentary produced by national geographic that shows homosexuality as occuring in nature among a wide variety of animals species
One CD is called "Homosexuality in the animal kingdom".
Obviously there's no question of these animals 'choosing' to be homosexual because according to the so-called good book, the Good Lord didn't give animals the gift of 'free choice'. hence homosexuality is inborn in nature.

Now Christians want to use some out of date verses pulled out of context and use stuff by homophobic psychologists promoting old research to shout down the scientific fact that homosexuality is not a cfhoice, it's an orientation.

In a homophobic and brutal society, do you think humans would voluntary 'choose' to be ostracised, discriminated against, pilloried, whipped to death, verbally abused, and ostracised?

Answer 2

I am not gay but this is just my opinion.

I think some people are just born hard wired to be attracted to the same sex. Some are born hard wired to be attracted to the opposite sex. Most are born somewhere in between. Those in the middle are the only ones that can choose only one or the other and still be happy, but many are starting to chose both.

Answer 3

I know plenty of gay people who did not choose to be gay they just are that way, always have been. The christian view of homosexuality is swayed toward an old fashioned patriarchal view of society. Not knocking christains, but it's true for the most part.

Answer 4

I consider myself bisexual. I'm a woman married to be a man but ever since I was VERY little (3), I have been attracted to females AND males. I used to look at women in the shower at the swimming pool and never thought anything was wrong with liking both women and men (never thought twice about it) until my mother said when I was about 6, "Why are you looking at the women? You're not attracted to them are you? Because homosexuality is evil." That really took me aback and I panicked for a minute and denied that I was attracted to the women.

But no, I didn't choose to be attracted to both sexes, it just came naturally and I never thought there was anything wrong with it until my mother and other people started speaking negatively about it. I'm still attracted to both sexes to this day.

Answer 5

nope. it isn't a choice.

i cannot "choose" or "decide" who i am attracted to anymore than anyone else.

i find certain people atteractive (in my case, people of the same sex) and i've been that way all my life. nothing i can do to make people who are unattractive to me, suddenly be 'attractive' because i choose them to be.

that notion is ridiculous.

Additionally -- if I could simply choose to be different, and avoid all the hate and scorn i got earlier in my career from judgmental, hateful christians who TWICE derailed my career, BELIEVE ME, i'd have "chosen" to make my life a lot easier and go for women. but, the though of opposite sexaul encounters (which i tried in HS and again in college) repels and disgusts me.

Answer 6

Christians who say this are in denial of reality...ignore them they are anti-gay and unquestioningly following the exaggeratedly homophobic interpretation that has been knowingly embroidered around otherwise obscure Bible texts and now institutionalised in their church.
They are just following orders mindlessly and take no responsibility for their wickedness when defaming gays.

Answer 7

I didn't choose to be heterosexual, so I can't imagine anybody choosing to be homosexual. I believe people are born either way. People need to accept that.

Answer 8

I choose to be happy, and I'm happy that I was born gay.

Answer 9

Right... Like people choose to be repressed, beaten, scorned, and have their human rights taken away.

Answer 10

I don't think there is a black & white answer.
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I personally believe BOTH
I think for some it is definatly a clear choice of lifestyle
while for others there is no choice
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