If homosexuality is some kind of quirk in the genitic formation of the brain or ...,?

Question

Should the government pass a law to spend money on research to help these suffering individuals?
If there is no problem in the genetic structure, then isn't it a choice that they have made.
Is there an error in my summation?

Answer 1

There is no problem in the genetic structure. The identical twins of homosexuals, with the exact same genetic structure, are only 38% homosexual.

Homosexuality is a learned behavior, like all the other abuses of the sexual reproductive system.

God designed sexual reproduction for, uh, sexual reproduction. Or as it says in Genesis 2::24:

"For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh."

The causes of homosexuality are amply explained in Romans 1:

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. . ..

Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 2

Yes, there are several.

First, you assume, without basis, that homosexuality is a negative thing. You even shift from 'quirk in the genetic formation of the brain' to 'problem in the genetic structure'. To move from quirk to problem is not justified. Even 'quirk' is questionable.

Second, you have a hopelessly simplistic binary view of things. Things are not either due to genetics or choice. Sexuality (along with all sorts of other phenotypic characteristics) may be the result of: 1) genes 2) pre-natal environment 3) post-natal environment 4) choice. There are probably other factors I haven't thought of. Most likely, it is a combination of several of the above. It seems to me that there is no good reason to even assume that every person's sexuality is the product of the same proportion of influences.

Answer 3

We don't know. That's the heck of it. We don't know if there is a quirk in the genetic information of the brain. We do know that many homosexuals, especially adolescents, really do suffer because of it, and many too many commit suicide because of it. I have difficulty with the concept that people voluntarily choose a desire that leads so many of them to suicide. My ultimate stance on the matter is that Christ died for all so that all might be saved. Period. Dot.
When I read I Corinthians 6:9-11, I don't come away thinking it says homosexuals cannot be saved. I believe it clearly says that no one in the human condition is worthy of salvation, yet we CAN all be saved through Christ Jesus. That's a very different reading that most fundamentalist Christians give it. They tend to ignore words like "fornicators, idolators, adulteres, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, and swindlers" when they throw this passage at the GLBT community. And such were, or are, some of them.

Answer 4

Homosexuality is probabaly due to a quirk in the genetic formation. However, I don't think any of the homosexuals are "suffering" from their "condition." If they don't want to be "fixed", then why don't we spend money and research on other quriks in the genetic formation that actually causes suffering that people want to be rid of, things like the list under source

Answer 5

There are errors on your summation: First is your reliance on Nature v Nurture. only because of the fact a controversy isn't genetic, would not recommend it isn't any longer genuine. that's plenty greater probable to be a made of the hormones of the mummy or the familiar of the sperm of the father, no longer a genetic element in any respect, and not a element bearing directly to the homosexuals themselves yet their mom and father for the time of the being pregnant. 2d is your assumption that homosexuality is faulty (that's only your guy or woman or religious view) and could be 'helped' or 'cured', or that homosexuals go through subsequently of their homosexuality. They go through only because of the attitudes of others in the direction of them. in case you and your co-religionists would desire to comprehend they don't have something incorrect (and that they do no longer fairly fancy you, so which you need no longer be scared) then they'd not go through the end results of your hatred, worry and discrimination. 0.33, it isn't any longer a decision. whether that's a decision, then you somewhat must additionally settle for that your heterosexuality replaced into additionally a decision (in some unspecified time interior the destiny if human beings opt for their sexuality, you ought to even have chosen yours). you already know that may no longer the case. you're rapidly, you have been born rapidly, you probably did no longer opt for it. they are gay, they are born gay, they did no longer opt for it.

Answer 6

The flaw is in assuming that it is some sort of negative situation rather than just being part of normal human diversity.

Should we spend money on research to eliminate blue eyes or red hair from the human population?

Should we revive the US eugenics programs of the early 20th century? Just think what could be achieved with 21st century technology!

EDIT: Suzanne G makes a good point. There's much to suggest that natural percentages of homosexuality in any population is influenced by societal stresses such as war, rumors of war, or overpopulation.

Answer 7

The last lesbian I counseled claimed she was born that way. She was in her 50's by the way. Living with a 25 year old girl.

Yet by the end of that first hour she reluctantly admitted she had been married for 20 years and had four children while in that marriage.

If being gay or lesbian was a genetic defect, how was this lady able to have four non gay, non lesbian children?

The youngest of her children is now over 20 years of age.

Pastor Art

Answer 8

Not a quirk or problem in brain or genetics, but, I believe, a "checks and balances" put in place by Mother Nature to prevent overpopulation

Answer 9

Oh, put a lid on it already! They are not hurting you, they don't fill our prisons, and as it turns out... they make wonderful parents, and they are involved in their communities. I'm a straight female with some gay friends. They are no different than anyone else and probably have far less abherrent lifestyles than a lot of people who wear the religious hats and sit in the front pew every Sunday.

Answer 10

Yes. You're begging the question by assuming in your premise that it is an aberration.

It isn't. Or if it is, then so is red hair and hazel eyes and freckles and a propensity to like salty food over sweet, etc.

It isn't a choice and it isn't a birth defect.

I'm not broken so there is no need to "fix" me.