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View Poll Results: Homosexuality is a choice:
Yes 50 22.94%
No 156 71.56%
Only here to see the poll results 12 5.50%
Voters: 218. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-15-2019, 10:50 PM
 
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Ben Carson ignited a firestorm of controversy in an exclusive 2015 CNN interview when he asserted that homosexuality was a choice.

https://twitter.com/cnnpolitics/stat...86631214882816
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In the CNN interview, Carson said prisons prove the theory that homosexuality is elective. “A lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay. So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question,” he said.
Carson later walked back the comment after an onslaught of backlash.

https://twitter.com/msnbc/status/573294474132127745
Ben Carson: 'I deeply regret' saying homosexuality is a choice | MSNBC

Ben’s comment raise an interesting question. Is homosexuality a conscious decision or inherent characteristic?

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Old 01-15-2019, 10:52 PM
 
Location: Denver
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Did we go back in time?

No, it's not a choice, any more than choosing to be Indian, Chinese or German.....
 
Old 01-15-2019, 10:54 PM
 
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Ben Carson is an idiot savant.
 
Old 01-15-2019, 10:58 PM
 
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Not really any of my concern.
 
Old 01-15-2019, 11:03 PM
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Location: Dallas, TX
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If a person's gay, they're gay. Ben Carson's was stuck in 1985. Good that he regrets saying it (finally).
 
Old 01-15-2019, 11:04 PM
 
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You actiually missed an important option in the poll and the right answer: it is sometimes.

I have no doubt that some people are born gay, and scientists have given various plausible reasons why. That being said, any behavior can be learned, and we know FACTUALLY from other cultures that when homosexuality is tolerated, more turn to it, and it is even more so in cultures where it is encouraged.

Human behavior is complex, and homosexuality, much like the intelligence controvery, is a question to which there is not an easy answer.
 
Old 01-15-2019, 11:05 PM
 
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A person's orientation is a choice. There, as far as I know, not any gene that makes a person gay, straight, or bisexual. It's more of your surroundings (where you are raised, who you are raised with, and how you are raised).
 
Old 01-15-2019, 11:07 PM
 
Location: Victoria, BC.
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Ben Carson is an idiot savant.
I think you should have left the "savant" out of that statement.
 
Old 01-15-2019, 11:08 PM
 
Location: Victoria, BC.
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A person's orientation is a choice. There, as far as I know, not any gene that makes a person gay, straight, or bisexual. It's more of your surroundings (where you are raised, who you are raised with, and how you are raised).
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
 
Old 01-15-2019, 11:12 PM
 
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Ben Carson is an idiot savant.

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I think you should have left the "savant" out of that statement.
Are we talking about Ben Carson is a Neurosurgeon? Because the reality is that your two are comparatively something that fell out of a tree. No ad hominem, it is just the truth.

Maybe next you would like to call Einstein a retard because he was soft on crossdressing?
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