Hey people, I hope this question doesn't offend anybody, but Jb#'s question made me think of this. What do you guys think causes Homosexuality? I know it's not a choice so there must be some scientific reason behind it, right? If I had to guess, I would say it could be a lack/abundance of testosterone. What do you guys think?
Though this is a personal anecdote, I do not believe it is lack of testosterone. Part of my handicap caused me to have
very little testerone - and my parents are these hypothetical 'gay influences' - yet despite both of those, I was attracted to a girl when I was like, seven years old, and haven't swayed since.
Religion is your beleifs, which you chose yourself. But homosexualty is more like race, you don't chose that, you're born with it.
Are people really born homosexual? Don't make claims you can't back up, nobody's come to a conclusion on this one yet. >>
Tell me something that gets more discrimination than homosexuality.
Women under Sharia law - I think I found an example! I was going to say 'Muslims' but I thought of it, and depreciation of homosexuality is just so widespread, they can find people who are biased everywhere, they can face the death penalty automatically in some countries, they were a group targeted in the holocaust, and condemning them is a part of millions of people's normal vocabulary, it really is an example of a group that faces very pervasive discrimination.
Your sexuality is not something you can choose not to practice, if it was, nobody, and I mean nobody, would be gay.
People listen to religion first, science last. Even if it's proven homosexuality isn't a choice, people would still deny that and yell out *But the bible says..." If that wasn't the case, we'd all be evolutionists.
Yes they would, what hyperbole. One of the eight billion people in this world would still try it, regardless of the prejudice they'd face. Just because it's against the status quo doesn't mean they would be caught and condemned for it. Also, there are religious gay people who believe in evolution! And there are athiests who listen to science first. Why would you talk in such generalizations?
Okay, for those who say being gay is something your born with than humor me batman,
What causes a child to be born gay? Give me a logical reason other than "the gay gene" or "idk it just is like being born black". While were on that topic, im going to rebuke a few of the people who replied to my post saying "your born gay, like being born x y or z". Being born any race/color/nationality is a matter of evolution, unlike homosexuality.
How do you figure being gay is not genetic and thus a result of evolution? IMO, the 'gay' category is not real and people can be in love with the same gender for a variety of different reasons, genetic, hormonal, or psychological, or even by preference.
No one said that people are born gay. Being gay is just not a choice.
Yes, ShinyRaikou said that people are born gay. And some people who call themselves gay say that it was choice for them.
What it all comes down to, though, is there's basically no evidence that homosexuality is a choice. And if it is, please explain to all those people in Uganda lined up for execution for being gay how they would go about choosing not to be gay.
Or, being gay
can be a choice, while other times - maybe most of the time, people just know they are gay, thus, not a choice. People can acclimate themselves to certain activities and tastes and adopt them, but they would only choose to do so in a place that won't execute them for it. Anybody in Uganda who can be straight, will be straight, and those who are executed for it are gay and didn't choose to be. That's why you can only find people who claim to have chosen to be gay in western countries where that sort of thing is acceptable and not punished by execution.
Being gay can be a choice. What if you had an extreme disliking for women, even though you grew up attracted to them, and decided to go homosexual for some bro type relationships?
That's a more complicated scenario than you present it. Their dislike for women is not a choice, though their decision to not date them because of that dislike is a choice. If they can't get over that dislike, they're either out of luck, or maybe aesexual. If psychologically they ended up attracted to men because they were discouraged from dating women, and then decided to date men instead, the decision is a choice, but the attraction to men is not a choice, but a preference. If they decided to experiment with men not because they actually liked men, but just cause they couldn't stand women,
then they decided to be gay.