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View Poll Results: Is homosexuality a choice?
Yes it is. 30 24.19%
No, you are born that way. 94 75.81%
Voters: 124. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 03-06-2015, 07:50 AM
 
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None of the above. It doesn't matter if is or not.

Unless you're a psychic mindreader there's no way to know if someone else chose
their sexuailty or were born with it. And why would you care anyway. A person's sexuality
is no one's business but their own. No one has the right to tell someone else
how to live their private life. We're not a theocracy and there's no law against being gay.

People should live their own life, if they have one and leave others to live theirs.
In other words mind your own damn business.

 
Old 03-06-2015, 08:20 AM
 
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The best part is that some people don't know which choice is the dumb one, while others do.
Since scientists havent proven there is a "gay" gene, neither choice is dumb.. its just an opinion..

Just like people had the opinion the earth was flat, for awhile, it was.. even though it was always round..
 
Old 03-06-2015, 08:21 AM
 
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Sexuality is on a spectrum. Not every is even gay in the same way. I didn't vote in the poll, because it's really not a simple answer. I've known a few people that have swung both ways, so it obviously can be a choice for some, but it's not for others.
Exactly. I've known people who went one way, then went another for years, then decided it wasnt what they wanted, and went back. its a frame of mine for an individual, and clearly people can change their mind..
 
Old 03-06-2015, 08:23 AM
 
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I don't think it's a choice. Any person who decides to experiment or "discover" with their sexuality was always homosexual or bisexual to begin with.
So "everyone", (and I mean this as a figure of speech) in jail, is gay to begin with?

Are we to assume you think gays are criminals then?

See how asinine this can get with that point of view?
 
Old 03-06-2015, 08:36 AM
 
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I don't know, so I did not vote.
Of course, I don't really care, either.
 
Old 03-06-2015, 08:37 AM
 
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No.

It's likely not THAT simple, but to say it's a choice is a sign of absolute stupidity and I stand by that. I don't care who get's offended. It doesn't make the slightest bit of sense to claim it's a choice. If it was a choice, who would choose it knowing there are people who would advocate for removing your from society?

And I can say from experience, I didn't choose to be heterosexual. It just sort of happened. Why would it be any different for gay people?
Did you ever have homosexual thoughts even for a minute?

For example,did you ever get a little excited looking at a man during porn?
 
Old 03-06-2015, 08:37 AM
 
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I don't think this is a black and white answer. I understand it's been scientifically proved that you can have a chemical imbalance that makes you attracted to the same sex, and that's something you're born with, I think that's the majority. But I've always found it curious how there are a lot of "artificial attributes" stereotyped with homosexuality. Why is it that when they come out their voices get all sassy, with an intense feminine tone, and often a lisp (i really don't understand the lisp)? And why are they oversexualized? Straight people don't talk about sex, at least I don't, they sure as heck don't flaunt their sexuality around in public, that's a private sacred thing. And a lot of times their tastes change..An example with a personal friend of mine. He was a pretty normal dude, then he got into drugs, then he went insane, went to a mental home and got clean, came out and then literally CAME OUT... He started dressing femininely, talking different, and the WEIRDEST part of all he was a HUGE music buff who didn't like pop garbage. All of a sudden when he came out he pretty much only listened to Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber, it's weird because that's a sad excuse for music and really more of a "product" and it's often called "gay" (in the derogatory sense where gay means bad, and no I'm not using it that way). Why did he go from listening to actually musical artists to pop products made for tweens and often referred to as "gay"? It seems like a choice...it's very strange. I understand if you're homosexual you may be proned to being more feminine, but why if you're say, a 25 year old man wouldn't you be more like a 25 year old woman.... not a 16 year old girl (which is what most gays act like)...curiouser and curiouser...Also finally, I'd like to note on bisexuals... essentially every bisexual I've met (and they're mostly women, but some men) have outright admitted being sex addicts, isn't that saying something? I think they just need more to feed their addiction, the men seem more attracted to girls and the girls seem more attracted to men, but they go for both. I recently read an article about david bowie, where he came out as being gay in the 70's and then said he was just a bisexual, and then in the 2000's he said it was all a mistake announcing that to the world, he's always been a heterosexual, it was just the lifestyle and the curiosity, and the shock value aspect of it that made him try it and publicize it, and he said he hadn't had many male lovers............SOOOO, No. It's not black and white. I think some people are born with it, some people are sex addicts, and some are just insane.
 
Old 03-06-2015, 08:40 AM
 
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Only gay people would know the answer. So why not just ask us and skip the straight "experts" opinion
 
Old 03-06-2015, 08:50 AM
 
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I've heard stories like this too. Sexuality may not be as hardwired as we think.
Sexuality is essentially chemistry. We know that a person's chemistry will change over their lifetime.

A change in sexuality does nothing to undermine the concept that sexuality is innate.

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Only gay people would know the answer. So why not just ask us and skip the straight "experts" opinion
Wrong. Every person is born with their own sexual identity that is defined by chemistry.

My understanding of how my chemistry makes me attracted to woman also applies to why a man's chemistry may have him attracted to another man.

It is no different than a gay man being able to understand why I am a straight man. Chemistry.
 
Old 03-06-2015, 08:52 AM
 
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For some no for some yes.
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