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I'm still waiting for the genetic experts to come out and explain collectively why its genetic.
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Originally Posted by ImissThe90's
You know, it's quite funny that we still haven't had any of the people who think it is a choice answer the question of when they made the choice, and how they made it.... Very telling, isn't it?
That's hard to argue.... whether the homosexuality is caused by genetics or caused by upbringing and environment, the limbic system and subconscious mind are designed by nature to want to crave and repeat the same things, behaviors, thoughts, emotions, etc. it's learned to do in the past.
Perhaps a person could re-teach themselves to be a hetero-sexual over time (in fact I know they could) still it's hard to argue that something you've been feeling since childhood is a "choice" ... We gain new skills and traits by doing them and repeating them over and over though so if someone practiced enough, like say learning a new language like German, they could reprogram themselves. With sufficient practice and repetition, any human being can get good at just about any skill or take any position on an issue with enough brainwashing, which is why world leaders are so aware of how important it is to control the information flow their populace sees.
I will say that if you live with a transgender person and that transgender person throws their transgenderness in their children's faces and encourages them to grow up sexually neutral, these children much more likely to turn out transgender than someone who grows up with heterosexual parents, because we are the sum of our life experiences, and people underestimate how much of the traits we carry through life are picked up in childhood... how we are raised is SUPER important to our long term personality.
The research I've done suggests we don't even have free will.. that our responses are the result of environmental stimuli, that we are merely stimulus response machines who still act mostly on instincts, so I'm one to lean with the idea that for most people, homosexuality is not a choice. Most people don't have a choice in life unless they study psychology and make personal growth a passion. Most people float along on autopilot most of the time, which is simply a way to say they do "learned behavior" programmed into their subconscious.
Thank you. And a follow up question if you don't mind: Could you suddenly "choose" to be gay for whatever reason? Just start being attracted to/dating/having relations with the same sex?
I think its a learned behavior based on your environment growing up and you do have the choice to act on it or not.
I have yet to see evidence of the "gay gene" that the left insists there is and is holding hope for.
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Originally Posted by 20yrsinBranson
In life, EVERYTHING is a choice.
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Originally Posted by workingclasshero
well the two options are:
1. its a choice...
or
2. its a neurological birth defect, causing you to think/feel in an unnatural way
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Originally Posted by FKD19124
and you are??? along with the "its genetic" crowd?
if it was genetic, then all pairs of identical twins would display homosexual behavior in 100% of the time..
These posts show a profound misunderstanding of how genetics works. There is no such thing as “the” gay gene, anymore than there is such a thing as “the” intelligence gene or “the” shyness gene. Human behavior is way more complex than that. I can’t give any of you a remedial course in genetics in a post being typed on a cell phone, but trust me - you need one.
Perhaps a person could re-teach themselves to be a hetero-sexual over time (in fact I know they could)
This is just false. You could "teach" yourself to have hetero relationships maybe, but that wouldn't change your attraction to the same sex. This is some "pray the gay away" type of BS.
This is just false. You could "teach" yourself to have hetero relationships maybe, but that wouldn't change your attraction to the same sex. This is some "pray the gay away" type of BS.
how about surgery/medicine.....
I will give an example
Sonny and Cher had a daughter Chasity ....she was/is gay
Chasity "felt" that she was a man (transgender)
now Chasity is Chaz, a male...but still attracted to females...is he no longer gay????
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