Who do so many believers fly in the face of both common sense and science?

Question

If I encounter one more fundie declare that being gay is no more than a choice, I'm gonna toss my lunch. Let's see now: if you're heterosexual, was it a "choice." I mean, could you have been gay or straight but decided, No, I like girls, I'm drawn to the sweetness of the female form and smell and those other things? Or did you say, Hey, either one, male or female, I'm ready and eager? And did you see Kevin smiling at me in gym class? That's the "common sense" part. Being straight wasn't your choice, right? Then why in heck would being gay be a "choice" for gay guys? As for science, it has been found in study after study, in research upon research, that a human being's sexual orientation is determined by genes and environment. Chaps, do try...try...not to be stupid on everything. You are humans, yes? You have a brain, yes? Okay, use it!

"...techniques used to suppress homosexual feelings and/or create heterosexual feelings in gays and lesbians:

Lesbians had their breasts amputated.
Lesbians had their perfectly healthy uteri removed.
Male gays were given aversion therapy; e.g. clients were shown pictures of naked men and simultaneously shocked with electricity.
brain surgery in the form of frontal lobotomies.
castration.
counseling and psychotherapy.
drug therapy: e.g. animal-organ extracts, cocaine, estrogen, testosterone.
positive therapy: e.g. men were asked to masturbate and then were shown pictures of women just before orgasm.
prayer and spiritual counseling.
therapy by tedium: men were shown homoerotic pictures until they became totally bored.

Scientific studies: Richard Green, a psychiatrist from UCLA has compared effeminate with "masculine" boys. Children who grow up to become homosexuals often engage in "gender inappropriate play" in early childhood. "'Feminine' boys played about four times as much with the doll...a third as much with the truck." By interviewing their child subjects later in life when they were in their teens and early twenties, the researchers found that 75% of the effeminate boys had become gay adult males. It is obvious that these boys were not taught this behavior. They did not copy their behavior from other children in the family; they were often under harsh and severe pressure from their parents to change. One reasonable conclusion is that that they are driven to this type of behavior by an innate trait which is outside of their control and consciousness.

Answer 1

How about the few who will admit it is not a choice, tell you, acting on it is a choice. Tell you, "you should be a celibate homosexual", fornication you know. Then in the next breath condemn gay marriage.

Answer 2

True or false ? :

"As for science, it has been found in study after study, in research upon research, that a human being's sexual orientation is determined by genes and environment."

False, because both options are NOT true. If one is true and the other is false, then the answer to the whole question is false.

There is no homosexual gene and ABSOLUTELY NONE OF THE SCIENTIFIC STUDIES have said so. Environmental factors, yes, some of them taking effect before the child was born. But environmental, all the same; not genetic.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

It has to be a choice in order for it to be a sin. If homosexuality came natural, then how could their loving God punish someone for being what they are naturally? For many Christians, it doesn't matter what makes sence in reality. It only matters what makes sence in accordance to the Bible. The Bible and reality often times don't match up, but they don't care.

Answer 5

You would do well to take your own advice and use your brain. There is absolutely NO study which has proven that being gay is genetic. If you find one that PROVES it, please provide it to support your ignorant claim. Please, no data "suggesting" it is genetic. That proves nothing. We wait, oh wise one. Provide the link.
Use that brain and get researching, sparky..
Again, PROOF, not suggestions or guesses or possibilities.

Thank you for proving my point by providing us with what you consider to be LOGICAL CONCLUSIONS. Last time I looked up PROOF in the dictionary, that wasn't part of the definition. There is no PROOF of what you claim. We know that. It's kind of funny how you come on strong with the name calling and assertions of fact, when you have no facts. Thanks for the entertainment. You provided many laughs. You'll be waiting a long time for that elusive proof of yours, chuckles.
We laugh and wait.

Answer 6

their belief in Sodom and Gomorrah

christians think that they were destroyed because the people were homosexual, but they fail to realize that that wasn't the case. According to the story, they were generally bad people so they were destroyed. not because some of the people were homosexual.

Answer 7

My dog likes sex any way he can get it from boy dogs or girl dogs or the stuffed animal. Are you saying humans aren't intelligent enough to choose? Either heterosexual or homosexual can choose celibacy - right or wrong?

Answer 8

because most christians are tempted to be gay but need help in resisting it, so they call it a choice and a sin

Answer 9

Excellent point. In my experience most gay-bashers live in mortal fear that they are really gay themselves. If they say it's a choice, then it makes them feel superior for having made the "right" choice. And yet the fear remains...

Answer 10

If science and common sense were applied, there would be no believers in the supernatural.