Is it that hard to NOT think about homosexual sex?

Question

I spend the vast majority of my life NOT thinking about sexual practices that I find disgusting. Why is it so hard for certain religious people to do the same.

If two consenting adults get involved in sexual practices that you aren't down with, why not just ignore it? Where is the harm in minding your own business?

What about the claim that the gays will "make" other people gay? Where's that come from? Are some people fighting against urges that they don't want to admit to? Are they projecting when they say, "So and so is trying to corrupt other people"

Answer 1

I agree with you. I have seen quite a few people on here say I'm against homosexuality or gay marriage because its so disgusting and/or unnatural. First, for most of us the idea of or trying to imagine our parents having sex is pretty disgusting. No one is going to suggest though that because the idea grosses us out personally they shouldn't be doing it. Second, there are many instances in nature of animals exhibiting homosexual behavior.

I could never be sexually attracted to the same sex. It just isin't for me. I think if you are heterosexual you are heterosexual. There are also bisexual people and people who are only attracted to the same sex. I am baffled by religious people who think vast numbers of people will suddenly turn gay. It does seem to me to imply that the possibility of themselves as gay is a real one for them? I don't know how else to understand comments like in a generation or two our population will plummet and there won't be any straight people to marry. I have had this conversation with my husband who is also baffled. For him even if he were stranded on an island for life with a guy he liked and respected very much it could never happen. He just isin't attracted to members of the same sex.

Answer 2

Gay people do not make other gay people, that is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. If you have ever known a true gay person, you would quickly realize that whether they were born that way or something as a child made them that way, they definitely did not choose it. There is nothing wrong with it. There are many very generous loving Christian people who happen to be gay. Why on earth would anyone CHOOSE that lifestyle, so they could be treated like crap by fundamentalists and other judgmental a$$holes? Furthermore, if you can't bring yourself to agree with it, then yes, the best thing to do is just mind your own business. Also, I think some people are fighting their own bisexual tendencies and are so ashamed that they treat gay people terribly. I'd say almost 100% of people are at least 1% bisexual whether they want to admit it or not.

Answer 3

In many religions, Homosexuals are viewed as people who CHOOSE to have sex with others of the same gender, either out of rebellion or because they are inherently sinful or evil in some way. There is a complete denial that it could be genetic, because that would mean that God made them that way. God couldn't have possibly made them that way, because the Holy Book says that homosexuality is unnatural and against God.

So, if being gay is a choice, then that means that gay people could tempt other people into being gay (kind of like a drug addict can tempt his/her friends to use drugs). Added to this is the fear that if a person is sexually deviant enough to CHOOSE to have sex with others of their gender, then there is a good chance that they may also have other sexual "perversions". There are a lot of people who actually think that being gay predisposes you to being a pedophile, hence the fear a lot of people have about gay teachers or gay people adopting.

It would be great if everybody could live and let live where homosexuality is concerned, unfortunately, fear mixed with ignorance is a very volatile combination, and it is likely to cause certain types of religious people to fight on about this issue for years to come.

Answer 4

I think that a lot of the issue has to do with the fact that many legalistic oriented religious people are obsessive compulsive to some degree. OCD people tend to latch onto thoughts that they find disruptive and in this case, the one that's really bothering them is the gayness. For some people it's female promiscuity. Usually, it's some type of sex thing. I don't think it's necessarily that they're fighting their own latent homosexuality, it's that their brains don't work correctly.

But I bet some of them really are gay. Enter Ted Haggard.

Hail Satan,

Lazarus

Answer 5

I don't know, i've had a lot of homosexual sex myself, and it seems like even i don't think about it as much as religious freaks

Answer 6

some people think that their personal sense of disgust or offense has some cosmic significance. this could be one reason for the origin of religious behaviour, and might also explain why the most virulent homophobia often goes hand in hand with virulent religion.

Answer 7

it is in basic terms as dumb as saying that Obama isn't a US citizen. I call shenanigans, why? First, this guy is the only source of this. there is not any one else to assist his declare. 2d, that photograph of "Obama" is extremely suspect, there is not any sparkling data it is him. third, this junk as been coming from a marginally desperate corporation (purpose or accuracy in media) attempting to pin Obama as a "gay" and Frank Marshall Davis as a toddler molester. there is not any data in any admire to those claims from them. they only "declare that." Your final link proves that it is in basic terms stupid smear marketing campaign via some quite unsightly persons who misplaced the election. next time, incredibly study what you submit, the link you provided to the Huffington submit needless to say talks correct to the Davis' NOVELS. the guy wrote pornographic novels, no longer something greater or much less.

Answer 8

...because religious people often influence another become like they are. Then they start thinking of the same way for gay people will be.

Answer 9

You're right. It is disgusting, and I don't give a damn about what they do one way or the other. They need to learn to keep it to themselves, and quit trying to force their particular brand of perversion on the rest of us as being "normal". Keep it out of our tax-payer funded schools, and stop trying to indoctrinate our children with your sickening and perverse "lifestyle" choice; and keep your snivelling about needing "special" rights out of the halls of Congress. If you and the ones you whine for can do these things, there will be peace. If not, let the chaos continue. Sooner or later people will wake-up and put an end to these stupid things that gays do in the name of forced "tolerance" and "acceptance".

Answer 10

I dont think gays will Make others gay. However, I dont think they should be allowed to adopt and raise children because face it, the children almost ALWAYS end up gay, and I know a couple of them IRL.

I am not going to ignore it because it is very very true, and people need to know it is wrong and immoral in Gods eyes. Pushing it out of mind doesnt make it any less wrong. I want my children to know it is wrong. We will not associate with anyone who practices that life style.