Replies to '06/06 "I'm Gay, OK?"'

 Actually, scripturally speaking, there IS evidence that suggests that being gay is NOT a choice.  It's not as black and white as you might like to think it is.  There were men in biblical times that really struggles with being gay and not wanting to be. 

You can't just spew off statements at the top of your head and claim them as facts. 

  

A few months ago in the Toronto Star there was a research article about the connections between hormones and being gay. The study found that in gay men, by smelling the scent of another males sweat, released the same sexual hormones that straight men did when smelling a woman's scent 

  

This study was done over a long period; they also measured the hormones of pubescent boys when they smelled a male and female scent and used this to predict later sexual orientation. By testing younger boys, there is less risk to assume that gay men are aroused because of conditioning, rather than genetics. 

  

And I doubt this is the only research completed in this area 

Being gay may part be choice but probably a greater part of it not a choice 

  

PS - Why whould anyone CHOOSE a life of inner-turmoil and potentially family-breaking results? 

Did you "decide" to be attracted to members of the opposite sex? Did you one day sit down and say, "Well.... I guess I'll go for the men" - No, of course not, it was a natural feeling to you 

Please don't be ignorant. We've known - scientifically, undeniably - for over twenty years that homosexuality is genetic. Any good biologist can stand in front of a diagram of the human brain with a pointer and show you the exact section of the exact lobe that determines sexual orientation. Further, we even know that it's determined in the first trimester of gestation - when that portion of the brain is developed. Yes, Virginia, we can track it that specifically. To continue to challenge whether it's genetic or not is to simply stand with your head buried deep in the sand. Before you hear the truth, you can claim "Ignorance". Once you have been told the truth, you can no longer claim ignorance. Refusing to accept fact, after that, is called stupidity. And I KNOW you're not stupid. It's so interesting, too... Another thing we know from study after study after study, is that the people who argue against the acceptability/normalcy of homosexuality the loudest and most vociferously, are the people who are the most conflicted about their OWN sexuality. (Though often, of course, they're not even aware of their own internal conflict - it often goes on just under the surface, until they're at a place emotionally and psychologically where they're equipped to take an honest look at it. Sadly, for some, this never occurs, and they spend their entire lives fighting a terrible internal struggle that they cannot possibly win.) We choose how we act and with whom we act out sexually... But we definitely don't choose who we're attracted to at the basest of levels - it occurs without our effort or consent. Any thinking person can understand this very basic concept. Only persons with this terrible unconscious internal struggle continue to need to find some sort of "religious rationale" to disuage and justify their own internal conflict.