Do you believe that homosexuality is a choice?
I realize this is a very controversial issue to discuss.
However, I think it is an important one.
I have always believed that.
I've always believed that the people who engage in homosexual activity do so because they choose to, and not because they are victims of their own natures, as they imply.
It is a belief that I was raised with, and it is a belief that I will retain for the rest of my life.
And I was surprised to hear, is that there are others out there who share my belief.
With that being said, listen to what one homosexual man had to say in an interview about the subject.
Watch the video, take into account both sides of the debate, and judge for yourselves, BEFORE you comment.
DISCLAIMER: My purpose in making this thread is not the discriminate against anyone.
But rather that is done to address a social issue, and in hopes that we will all do so in a civil and respectful way.
I've tried to be as diplomatic as I know how in addressing this issue, and again, I hope that we will be able to discuss this in just such a manner.
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It's about your genes, homosexuality is not a choice, every gay was born as such.
More regurgitated O'Reilly rhetoric? Lovely.
As I stated in another thread: gay people have about as much choice in being gay, as I have in being visually impaired. The American Psychological Association has an illuminating PDF about sexual orientation and I would strongly recommend you read it.
http://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/orientation.pdf
Imo being homosexual is not a choice and that's been proven so many times
Did you watch the video you linked?
The man said he could choose to engage in heterosexual relationships, just like you could choose to engage in homosexual relationships. In both cases, the relationship would not be enjoyable. He says quite clearly that he was either born gay or became gay very early in life, and that he couldn't become attracted to women if he wanted to.
But the point the man made, is that even though a person cannot help their feelings, they can choose what they do with them.
"It is a belief that I was raised with, and it is a belief that I will retain for the rest of my life." -Lol religion!
I guess that depends what you mean by "is homosexuality a choice". Acting out homosexual events is most definitely a choice, but not one that should in any way, shape, or form be looked down on. The orientation, initially being attracted to members of the same sex, is not a choice. To my knowledge this has been represented in countless tests. Unlike a lot of other people I don't believe sexual orientation can be completely chalked up to genetic variation. It has a lot to do with intricate, often subtle, changes in environmental upbringing as well.
I don't think so.
But why should two consenting adults not act on them?
Because man in sky say phallic touching bad?
Same here, I agree with the APA report that says it's probably a complex mix of nature and nurture.
Homosexuality isn't a choice. Let me ask you this did you choose to be heterosexual? I assume you are, but I could be wrong. If it was a choice than why wouldn't we all be bisexual. Because according to you, people can pick and choice which gender they are attracted to.
You're twisting his words. He's clearly in favor of letting gays be gay. He said a gay person going against his feelings is the same as a heterosexual going gay.
Was that the pdf you linked earlier?
How the hell homosexuality is a choice if in some countries gay people are unfairly beaten and even killed by homofobics?
I don't know, but I honestly don't think it really matters in the slightest either. If people are gay just let them be, I think the only people who bring up this incredibly useless and boring argument are just doing it to try and anger homosexuals by attempting to insult them by saying their sexuality is a choice.
So we could basically say that heterosexuality is a choice either? Would you agree with that?
Since we can choose what we do, as you're stating.
Saying that people are homosexuals because they choose to be is like saying black people are black because they choose to be. It's who they are. It's in their genes. I disagree with your statement.
Yeah, it's an interesting Q&A.
Of course it's a choice, who doesn't like to suffer discrimination and even violence?
Seriously though. No, it's not. I find it funny when someone argues that homosexuality is a choice without presenting any clear evidence to support their argument. Instead of listening to what homosexuals have to say, since they clearly know whether it's a choice or not, some people prefer to judge and believe in something without any scientific basis.
By the way, nice job being open-minded.
No, sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with choice. Our genes define who we are attracted to before birth, the same way they play a part in hair and eye colour. I find it hard to believe that someone would still choose to be gay despite all the discrimination and ridicule they face every day, and how some even commit suicide when the torment becomes too much. If homosexuality is a choice, then why don't you choose to be gay? Wouldn't it be easy for you to sleep with a man and enjoy it if you really wanted to?
But you realize that's what it is, right? A belief is not fact. There is science behind homosexuality, and it's there whether you believe it or not. Homosexuality occurs in nature in over 1,500 species and they survive on instinct, not necessarily choice.
Hell no.
It was proven time and time again that it is not a choice. I would say that I don't understand how people can still think it is a choice after so many studies proving otherwise, but then again, I know people that believe dinosaurs never existed and the fossils are rock sculptures that satanists bury underground to undermine the faith of the Christians.
Where do you live and is it under a cloud of drugs?
A tiny town in the mountains of Rio de Janeiro (the state, not the city. The city of Rio de Janeiro that everybody in the world knows is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro).
And I wish. It would explain a few things. For example, why an angry mob attacked and almost killed a guy on his late teens for witchcraft a few years ago. It was near my house, too. Guess why I don't tell people I'm Wiccan here. Just an explanation here, the boy went hiking with two friends, and one of his friends died on the hike. The townsfolk convinced themselves that one boy in particular (and not the other survivor, for some reason) used the boy who died on a ritual.
"Watch this random video I pulled up which has no evidence to support my stance before you judge my already falsely proven idea."
Eesh, sounds harsh. Seriously, an angry mob?
The boys were waiting to be questioned (it was an accident, but they witnessed it so they had to talk to the police anyway). About 40 people (according to the town's prosecutor) invaded the police station and dragged one of the boys out, kicking and beating him while the four policemen that were on duty there at the time and the other boy tried to stop them (I mean, they were not going to just shoot everyone). Nobody was arrested, but at least the mod didn't kill him.
It is not unusual for this to happen in my country, unfortunately. In a much bigger city than mine (Guarujá, in São Paulo), a woman was killed by an angry mob less than a year ago because someone said on Facebook she kidnapped kids to use in black magic rituals. She was innocent, by the way, she never did any of this.
But I'll stop derailing the thread.
I didn't know we still lived in the middle ages, that shit is crazy.
Everyone calm down and listen to this
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Here's the thing though, wouldn't a person's attraction to the same gender be classified as homosexuality?
Well we can choose what to do. How we feel is another matter entirely. Perhaps the OP sees sexuality as based on choices alone.
No, Homosexuailty is not a choice. No one chose what preference they go by, such as being gay, pans, ace, bi and so on.
For example, as a bisexual I cannot help my preference. I cannot decide if I like both men and women. My friend, she cannot choose whether or not she is a lesbian, it's just what her preference has always been, the same with me. Otherwise the both of us would be straight right now because it's not fun being ridiculed for a sexual orientation.
Also FOX news are full of shit.
If we're going to define sexuality as something based on our choices and not on what we're attracted to, then yep. Though it doesn't seem like the OP sees heterosexuality as a choice too.
Mob justice like that is fucked up. Same thing happens to thieves in East Africa. You rob someone, get caught, and next thing you know, you're dosed in gasoline and burned to death.
We have to separate the attraction and the sexual act. No, I don't think homosexuality is a choice. for whatever reasons, someone is attracted to specific aspects of different people. Homosexuality is no more a choice than, let's say, asexuality. People are just wired differently to like different things.
Being bi isn't something to shame.
I mean someone asks what do you prefer, women or men?
Why not both?
It's the best of both worlds.