I don't believe homosexuality is natural. But is it unnatural?

Question

I refuse to believe homosexuality or any sexual orientation is genetic. Fact is, we have only double the genes of the common fruit fly, and some studies show that our personality is essentially based on our upbringing as an infant and a young child. For instance, if you are left crying for long periods of time, you will leave your children in the same manner. If you are vicious and violent, you will repay your environment with the same behaviour. You will often choose the same partner as your parents did, also - this is very common.

Nor do I believe it is a choice. You have no control over your environment when you are that young. Your parents do. This is why some behaviours are mistaken for genetic, when they are merely grinded into the personality.

However, the option for 'alternative parenting' remains, and since we are capable of homosexuality, does that automatically mean it is natural? I'm split about this.

Answer 1

Riddle me this, Batman! I grew up in a very strict heterosexual environmnet, not being anywhere near a gay person. I played sports all throughout my childhood and teenage years, again, never any contact with a known homosexual. Therefore, what part of my environment caused me to be gay? Or for that matter, where/what/when in YOUR environment led you to be heterosexual?

Answer 2

Hmm. I have loving parents, and my partner has a loving parent. My folks have a long marriage of 47 years, while her mom has had 4 divorces; yet the two of us have been together for almost 27 years and are likely to remain together. I have come to the conclusion that a person is what they are, although yes, many people do emmulate what they have seen as they are growing up.
Sometimes the soul needs what it needs and two people are brought together for that need. Far fetched? Possible but still probable.
Love is a great bond in humans. That is one item I think your theory is missing. Sex doesn't replace love; it leaves a person searching for something until they either replace it with an addiction or with the real thing. I'd much rather see someone truly in love.
Split or not, my Son, Love is still where you find it.
Blessings.

Answer 3

You can refuse to believe the science all you want, but that doesn't make it wrong. There is strong evidence that homosexuality is natural. Nobody is forcing you to accept that, but we might force you to accept us. You are just going to have to deal with that, and as long as there is mutual respect, our difference of opinion won't matter very much. Your convictions can remain intact, as will mine, and everyone will get along.

And no, you don't say something is genetic when it's not. There is a correlation between specific genes and homosexual behavior... that is a mathematical fact, and the numbers don't take into consideration whether mommy hit you or not.
All those arguments about whether there is a gene for it, and whether it exists in animals and so on, are completely irrelevant. It happens in humans, and we can observe it in great numbers. You cannot deny the existence of homosexuality, therefore it is as 'natural' as anything else humans do. I drive car every day and nobody accuses me of being unnatural. The word just doesn't apply to human beings.

Answer 4

The causes of homosexuality are natural, it is not the environment in which they grow up in, it occurs in the womb. Nobody knows for sure so far, but it is a growing belief that there is an immune response in the womb that changes something with the hormones that affect development of the fetus. This idea is developed from the fact that the chances of being homosexual increases by about a third when you have given birth once before.

Anything that occurs in nature is natural. If there are any haters out there reading this, remember that.

Answer 5

I don't think that homosexuality is unnatural, otherwise how would you explain straight parents growing up more than two children will have one of the children be gay?
For example, one of my friends, he comes from a family who has wealth, known for their kindness, and he did not have a bad childhood environment. His father is always there for him, and so does his mother, great kid with great personality and yet he is gay and he felt that it is natural for him to have a feeling for a guy while the other four siblings of his are straight.
He had a girlfriend before, but when he was dating her he felt that it wasn't right and that he felt he was missing something. So, he broke up with her and dated a guy and he told me he felt better dating a guy that he did dating a girl. Is that unnatural? I don't think so.
Go to look at the issue that Barbara Walters brought up a month ago in 20/20, it is a very interesting segment.

Answer 6

OK...given that human beings are part of nature, it follows that nothing we are capable of can possibly be unnatural.

And if you truly believe that homosexuality is caused by upbringing and environment, here's a question;
I have four sisters and one brother. Two of us - one sister, and I - are gay. all the others are straight. Since we all had the same upbringing, in the same environment; shouldn't we ALL be gay? Or ALL straight?

Answer 7

Wow, for me this sounds more like an accusation...

I do not deserve to acused, witnessed to or any other slur...

If this is a legit question,

Just read most news articles on the internet on LGBT parenting

Most of it is very postive...

I do not choose to be gay.... No one would choose, hatared, intolereance and abuse.

My parents would not chose or made me this way either...


But I have accepted who I am, I have two adopted daughters, and yes they are straight... well rounded, well educated, well cared for and I a pround to say they are starting into their adult lifes as good people...

Answer 8

i do no longer think of the priority is unavoidably whether that's a sin or no longer. Being a Christian isn't approximately all the flaws we could continually no longer do. that is approximately all the flaws we can do as a clean creation in Christ. Jesus got here to unfastened us from the curse of the regulation. via fact of him, we are welcomed into heaven, we can heal human beings, we can prophesy and intercede for human beings. i think of our considerable challenge could be glorifying God. i do no longer think homosexuality to be glorifying to God. that is not how he meant issues to be. Marriage is meant to instruct the courting of Christ to the church and intercourse is a latest to married couple, and is glorifying to God in that context. i assume my answer is for a Christian residing in homosexuality isn't suitable, yet how can we presume to hold the worldwide to our customary? we gained't. we can stay our perfect life in Christ, and instruct the worldwide how suited a life lived out of love is, per risk prevailing others as we do.

Answer 9

Recent studies have shown that homosexual qualities also extend to the animal kingdom. That theory is often used to prove that you are born into your sexual orientation. Also, I would think if animals have the ability to be homosexual, that would verify that it is a "natural" characteristic to have. My opinion...

Answer 10

I know a couple of families that have more than one gay kid and some that have gay twins so it probably is genetic. But why do you even care? Did you chose whatever your orientation is, or did it just happen? There really isn't any reason to care about other peoples' private lives, its their business, not yours. Find something important to spend your brain capacity on.