Is Christianity inadvertantly creating more homosexuals?

Question

Christianity insists that homosexual people "act straight," get married and have heterosexual sex. "Reformed" gay Christians are passing their genes down to their children, who have a good chance of becoming gay Christians as well.

If they were simply allowed to have sex with persons of their own gender, without pressure, gay Christians wouldn't be having gay Christian children. They might remain childless, or they might adopt a child, but they wouldn't be passing on their "gay genes."

Homosexuality has been relatively rare, since those who preferred their own gender were less likely to reproduce. But by using religion to manipulate some homosexuals into having children, is it likely that the genes responsible for homosexuality are being spread more effectively? Is Christianity the cause of the increase in homosexual behavior?

Answer 1

I really think you may have a valid point there. I wonder if there are any statistics on this. Would be interesting to read.

I have wondered the same things about inheritied diseases. With modern medicine, we keep people alive and breeding that would not have been able to do so without intervention. Doesn't that mean that eventually more and more sickly children who carry damaged genetic material will be born than at any time in history. If it is survival of the strongest, then are we forcing unnatural change in our own evolution by trying to help the population of one or two generations? We will see.

Answer 2

I can't begin to explain all the false assumptions and generalizations you have made in all that!

But let me just say that Christianity does NOT INSIST that homosexuals "act straight," get married and have heterosexual sex!!! What it does insist on is that the person REFRAIN from the sin of homosexuality. If that means that they lead a "non-sexual" life, then so be it, but it is not INSISTING that the person change into some sort of fake-heterosexual.

You are also assuming that homosexuality is INHERITED. There is STILL NO proof of this whatsoever. In fact, the proof might be more the opposite, since the VAST MAJORITY of homosexuals have heterosexual parents, and that children of homosexual "couples" do not, by any majority, "become" homosexual themselves. Therefore, even IF a "former" homosexual "became" a "fake-heterosexual," there is NO PROOF whatsoever, that their children will "become" homosexual by virtue of heredity.

Therefore, Christianity does not, and CANNOT, create homosexuals. Nearly all of your argumentation is falacious.


Have a blessed day.

Answer 3

Do you even know what you are talking about? Where are people being made to do all the things you state? "Gay gene"? The population is too small for such a thing. Christianity has always been opposed to homosexual activity, so if what you say were true, the world would be much more than 2-3% gay after 2000 years, don't you think?

Answer 4

Even if homosexuality IS biological, it isn't passed on through the genes any more than the skill to play a piano.

Homosexuality was "rare" because nobody was coming out public about it for obvious reasons. Since it has become more and more acceptable in society, people have been more open about it. If anything, more homosexuals were having children way back, because their religion and society demanded of them to marry and have children.

Answer 5

I simply think the increase is not due to there being MORE homosexuals than there once were but due to it more more acceptable to be gay than it once was. I think there is the same ammount of homosexuals on the planet as there ever was but the one's who are are feeling more secure and comfortable coming out now.

To greatwhitenorth2, actually musical ability is somewhat genetic. So the tendancy to be homosexual may have a genetic basis also. I think just about any human trait (besides physical appearance) has biological and environmental factors.

Answer 6

I don't agree with your particular details, Ape/God...but I do think you are right. I guess you do have a point, IF most practicing homosexuals are genetically predisposed to do so.

I think we do it by the stereotypes that we set for the sexes. Gender roles.

When a boy exhibits anything remotely feminine, or unmasculine, we label them queer. When a girl exhibits overtly masculine stereotypes, we call her a dyke. We expect them to fit the sexual box we put them in based on NON sexual actions, interests, and mannerisms.

If a person is the least bit insecure about themselves, particularly at a young age, and who isn't at some point?...well then we tend to lean on what other people think of us. Eventually, with enough insistence from others...a person starts to think..."maybe I AM gay! I must be, so many people think so and I'm not sure myself, and well, maybe I AM gay!"

Looking at stereotypes of men who do hair, decorators, guys who take an interest in fashion, guys who have a gentle voice, etc...well...I don't think it is a coincidence that gay guys often fit. But I think we have it all backwards. I think that having these traits in the beginning...leans them into the idea that they are gay, rather than their sex preferences leaning them into these interests. Same with girls.

No matter what you think about the homosexual community, they tend to be accepting of each other, so when a person "comes out" they can easily find likeminded company and compassion during this time. This puts the person smack in the middle of their "peer group" with friends who are supportive, and at the same time, pushed aside by old friends and family who hate the idea. And before you know it, a person who may NOT be gay at all, who is riding the coat tails of these stereotypes, is a practicing homosexual.

My thing is...I don't think it matters morally who you love as long as it is a loving relationship. But I don't think it's a good idea to be something you aren't, or for us to suggest things like this to each other and pressure each other into fitting stereotypes about what men and women are supposed to be like. It disempowers everyone from reaching their full potential without fear.

Personally, I wish we lived in a more open minded society where gender roles weren't just assumed to be the way men and women are supposed to act. I think in doing this we jam people into the wrong boxes and we screw around with their self-concept.

Answer 7

As I remember, homosexuality has been around thousands of years before Christ, so this isn't relatively rare or new.

It could be more prevailent today, because more and more homosexuals are "coming out" into the public and making it more and more known that they exist. As for blaming Christians for their homosexuality, well,,,,seems to me that anyone that doesn't want to take responsibility for their issues has got to blame somebody,,,,so why not blame the Christians?
Christians have been blasted for just about everything there's been "wrong" on Earth, so why not homosexuality?

Answer 8

Honestly, I think that you have a choice to be gay. So there is no such thing as "gay genes", so technically the child that they adopt may have reasons to explore the gay/lesbian world, but they are definetly not born gay. Anywho, no I do not belive that christianity is the culprit, it may be that just becuase there is that rule in the bible that a man needs to be married to a woman that people are breaking those rules. In other words, we are human, and we just love breakin those rules! I myself am not gay or a lesbian so I dont no how it feels? All I can say for myself is that I accept it, I just do not follow it. I love bein' a christian!

Answer 9

You're presuming that there is a single gene, or gene cluster, which makes you homosexual if you possess it and heterosexual if you don't. You're also presuming that there are exactly two classes of people, one gay and the other straight. There's a lot of evidence against both these presumptions. And anyone who marries a person they don't like because some loony God-botherer says they have to deserves everything they get.

Answer 10

That's funny. Blame the Christians for their own 'gay problem'.

I don't really think you could study this and many gay people do pass on their genes to their children. Lesbians use their own eggs and donor sperm to fertilize. Gay men often use a surrogate mother and their own sperm for fertilization. These children are as much a part of them and children from a heterosexual marriage.