Is Homosexuality a Choice?

Is it a Choice or are we born that way? A nice cartoon about that issue.

I cut this clip from the multiple award-winning documentary, "For The Bible Tells Me So".

http://www.forthebibletellsmeso.org/

---Resources and evidence---
Twin studies for male homosexuality:
http://www.tim-taylor.com/papers/twin...
http://allpsych.com/journal/homosexua...
http://www.springerlink.com/content/w...

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[Ellen Preissler]

Just another reason why I don't believe a person is born with desires. Desires are are developed and desires can change. People who don't wish to change aren't going to however. Parkinson's is not chosen but it's a disease and if you had it, you would want to keep it or would you want a cure? I would think you would want a cure.

[Ellen Preissler]

It's not always about sex? How can it not be about sex? I thought we were talking about sexual attractions?

[Joe Giuffre]

If homosexuality isn't a choice and heterosexuality isn't a choice how could bisexuality be a choice? Bi means 2. If you are bisexual it means you find both males and females to be sexually attractive. If you don't find both sexes to be sexually attractive you are not bisexual and can't choose to be. Unless you change the English language of course.

[Ellen Preissler]

And what do Bi-sexuals choose?

[Christopher Adams]

It's not always about sex or the ability to reproduce, and there are PLENTY of orphaned children to adopt, especially if the child has been left in the trash by a heterosexual couple.

[Joe Giuffre]

Once again I am in no way suggesting people have no power over there actions. If a person desires members of their same sex they are homosexual. It doesn't matter if they ever act on it they still fit the definition. I don't desire members of my same sex but more importantly I couldn't choose to. If you can't choose it, by definition it's not a choice.

[Joe Giuffre]

I brought up Parkinson's as an easy example of something you're not born with nor do you choose. In order to illustrate those aren't the only 2 possibilities. I'm not arguing what's right or wrong. I'm saying the answer to the question at the top of this page is no. I can't choose homosexuality.

[Ellen Preissler]

Natural foods are good for you and fortunatley there are a wide variety of them to eat. So if you don't like avacadoes there's almonds or other things you can get the same/similar nutrients from. But if you said you prefered to eat cotton balls because they taste good to you I would say that it's unnatural and unhealthy for you. You can still eat them, but it's not good for you.

[Ellen Preissler]

Again, necrophilia doesn't hurt anyone but it's immoral. I could also say it's immoral to have sex with a prostitute. You may disagree and maybe it doesn't hurt anyone, but the agrument lies whereas you are trying to make it legal and open whereas another person might not want it that way. Not everyone wants to have hookers in their neighborhood, nor do they want people forcing them and their families into believing it moral or acceptable.

[BailiffQuimby]

"But for those who are born perverts and rapists, you are saying it's normal and ok. Or at least normal and ok to "feel" that way, just not act on it right?"

Well now we're getting into issues of morality. And yes, if you feel a certain way, but don't act on it or allow it to affect your behavior, then it cannot be immoral because it does not hurt anybody. Immorality has to do with negative consequences to actions and behaviors. No consequences means it has no moral status.