Homosexuality is a sexual preference towards the same sex.
Being born with it is bunk.
Can Pedophiles claim the they were born with a sexual preference towards children?
Can people who practice bestiality claim they were born with a preference toward their favorite animal?
We all have sexual preferences and we choose which impulses to act upon. That is choice.
Many people have fantasies they would never act on, others act with out conscience.
These are all choices.
Some choose to abstain.
The idea that you were born to be gay would go against the species ability(instinct) to survive. Regardless if you believe in God or not, no species would survive if it's trait to reproduce was replaced with same sex behavior.
Everyone in a marriage has, or should have, made a choice on how to restrain their heterosexual urges, i.e. monogamy. In no way are we asked to choose to have a different urge (for the opposite sex), but we are asked to (1) keep that to someone 18 or older (in most states), (2) keep it out of the family, and (3) keep it to one other person (hard on the old school mormons and some middle eastern folks).
But in none of those cases are we asked to go gay. And Gays are not asking for us to. They want to choose within the same parameters just with members of their own gender. If you accept that, for whatever reason they are innately wired gay, then you are asking them to be celibate out of purely religious convictions and that will not survive a Constitutional check. Either the issue will go local and states will decide, or the issue will go to the gays. Frankly, come the next generation the issue will be moot. If you look at the numbers, even young more right wing leaning people, even gun owners, just aren't concerned about "getting teh ghey" as they put it. It just does not frighten them that much.
In two generations, gays will be just as boring as hetero's.
Did you know that bestiality was legal in Indiana until 2007?
LOL Yep, until the repeat offender with the dog!
Sodomy? Do you know that includes oral sex with the opposite sex? Better start locking up a lot of high schoolers. By the way, "sodomy" is not against the law in Indiana, unless there is "force," which would be classified as an offense titled "sexual deviate conduct." Again, just like homosexuality.....there has to be an unwilling victim in order for there to be a crime.
So why are we concerned about monogamy? I mean if we are using the "Consenting Adults" test, surely that would pass the grade.
So for those who are wired to have sex with their dog, we are supposed to do what? Accept it and let it too become boring in time?
So are you saying laws against sodomy are unconstitutional now or when we find out that being gay is not a choice?
Frankly, heterosexuals running around and rutting is FAR FAR more dangerous to society than gays. Gays cannot sire child after child and abandon them to the welfare state to feed, house, and some day arrest.
And, yeah, this is quite the divergence, and one we have had before.
Do we need permission to practice our religion? NO
Do we need permission to make a poster? NO
Do we need permission to write an article? NO
Do we need permission to not be illegally searched? NO
Do we need permission to have a speedy trial? NO
Do we need permission to have life, liberty, and pursue happiness? NO
I don't know about you, but there's no way in seven levels of Hades that I could ever "choose" to be gay. I am quite certain that I am hard-wired to pursue the female of the species.
Being that the attraction for the opposite sex is innate, the choice is rather easy....most of us have no problem making that choice. But, there are those that do choose to go down the other path...It is a choice they make...not much different than a teenager deciding to dress out of the norm, for attention or whatever other reason they may have.
Pedophiles also choose who the want to have sex with.
Car buffs choose what vehicle manufacturer they like.
We all choose what music we like to listen to. The world is full of choices.
The thing that really cracks me up are those that choose to be homosexual and then also adjust their voice to match their lifestyle...for males, forcing it to a higher pitch than they were physically developed to speak. Just as the female homosexuals attempt to speak in a lower and sometimes "tougher" voice.
Of course, some even dress and "act" the part for the role they wish they were. And then there are those that go to the extreme and alter their bodies to fit that role. I really think these are people who would do great in theater.
If homosexuals are born that way, then is it possible that I am a lesbian, trapped inside a man's body?
I know one somewhat well...How many gays do you actually know? I mean, broken bread with kind of know.