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Interesting article here, about how whether you think homosexual attraction itself is a choice, you always have a choice in your actions. That is where free will lies.
Interesting article here, about how whether you think homosexual attraction itself is a choice, you always have a choice in your actions. That is where free will lies.
Gay and lesbian people have just as much right to be in a relationship with people they love as you do.
They don't have to live their lives according to your religious views.
Interesting article here, about how whether you think homosexual attraction itself is a choice, you always have a choice in your actions. That is where free will lies.
"It's OK to change from straight to gay though, because that's called 'coming out of the closet'"
LOL- whoever wrote that column in the OP's link is a moron.
"It's OK to change from straight to gay though, because that's called 'coming out of the closet'"
LOL- whoever wrote that column in the OP's link is a moron.
The author of the piece is either a moron or intentionally deceptive. For example he mentions some research from the 1990's but completely ignores all the research from the past 25 years. Ignorant? Or intentionally deceptive?
Either way, the article is so full of religiously indoctrinated ignorance and anti-gay propaganda, it reads like a parody piece on the Onion.
It's not an interesting article at all unless maybe you are gay and feel like you can't admit it to anyone because they would shun you. It's all about finding "proof" of something you desperately want to believe...free will lies there too.
I can't say for sure that being gay is a "choice."
But there's absolutely no conclusive evidence in favor of people being "born gay." Statistics show that adopted children of gay couples have much higher chances of being gay themselves. Environment and personal decisions play a role, no doubt.
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it would seem that a gay couple is tough to distinguish from roommates who like to kiss each other once in a while.
I stopped reading after that. That was in the second paragraph. It's pretty obvious from that one sentence, that the person has never met or spoken with a gay couple. So his thoughts and views are pretty much irrelevant. and will most likely be just as stupid.
I can't say for sure that being gay is a "choice."
But there's absolutely no conclusive evidence in favor of people being "born gay." Statistics show that adopted children of gay couples have much higher chances of being gay themselves. Environment and personal decisions play a role, no doubt.
Personal misinformed unsupported opinions are rather irrelevant.
"Despite almost a century of psychoanalytic and psychological speculation, there is no substantive evidence to support the suggestion that the nature of parenting or early childhood experiences play any role in the formation of a person’s fundamental heterosexual or homosexual orientation. It would appear that sexual orientation is biological in nature, determined by a complex interplay of genetic factors and the early uterine environment."
“…the current literature and most scholars in the field state that one’s sexual orientation is not a choice; that is, individuals do not choose to be homosexual or heterosexual.”
The fetal brain develops during the intrauterine period in the male direction through a direct action of testosterone on the developing nerve cells, or in the female direction through the absence of this hormone surge. In this way, our gender identity (the conviction of belonging to the male or female gender) and sexual orientation are programmed or organized into our brain structures when we are still in the womb.
There is no indication that social environment after birth has an effect on gender identity or sexual orientation.
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