It was an internal thing.  The same thing as blinking your eyes, or using the restroom.  Something that you have control over, but is regulated by your body.  I believe that you have to have a sexual preference of male or female, but you can choose whether or not you like guys or not.  I couldn't possibly see why anyone would choose to submit their lives to hate and scrutiny, but I do believe you do have a choice, once, early on in life to choose which way you play.  Generally this decision is influenced by outside factors, such as seeing your parents kiss or something like that.  Or what you see on TV.

Did you know that it's actually possible for gay people to have kids? They still produce sperm. They can find an egg and even a surrogate mother to give birth to it.

Gayness means they don't fall in love with women. It doesn't mean that they absolutely have to die without kids.

Do you get the same reaction when you see a man or a woman naked? if the answer is yes, then its a choice.

 That's fine, if you want a bastard son, and don't mind him being traumatized for life.

The whole "it isn't natural" argument (already debunked by a dictionary earlier in this thread), is based on the sex laws of the Puritans. Here's a brief summary:

Puritan sex laws are based entirely around the male orgasm, because at the time women were just property and people didn't even know they could have orgasms.

A male can have 3 types of orgasms.

1: Natural - this orgasm is within a female's vagina and leads to a pregnancy.

2: Unnatural - any other orgasm is punishable by death. This includes masturbation, oral sex, anal sex, a handjob from your wife, and even nocturnal emissions. 2 witnesses were needed to sentence you to death. If 2 people caught you having an orgasm in your sleep, it was called "sodomy" which meant "anal sex" or "oral sex" or in this case, "sex with a demon." You could only have an orgasm in your sleep if demons or devils were trying to steal your sperm or impregnate you with the Antichrist.

Natural orgasms are broken down into 2 types as well.

1A: Natural and right - intravaginal orgasms with your wife

1B: Natural and wrong - intravaginal orgasms before marriage or outside of your marriage, "fornication." These were just a slap on the wrist, maybe pray some more, if you're young, you're forced to marry her. But they don't kill you.



So today we still get people saying "It's just not natural" even in the face of overwhelming evidence that it is. That wording just never went away.

Nope, not at all.

But that was decided early on in life.  Any reaction to the sex you're not related too would be negated, since you've already decided that you like sex X.  As I said, you grow accustomed to a certain thing that only one of the two genders can give you.  It's a one decision type thing.

i seriously need to know when did you make this decision, what age? I just dont remember choosing to like girls.

(just to clarify my earlier post)

For any species that is not capable of reproducing asexually (ie. anything more advanced than a strawberry), it is an absolute requirement that at least a sizable portion of the population must be heterosexual for the species to survive. If this is not the case, the species would die out long before they can develop the technology for homosexual members of the species to reproduce. (for example: an all homosexual chimpanzee population would not have the capability to perform in-vitro fertilization) I'm not saying that gay people can't fall in love with members of the opposite sex, I'm just saying that being gay (attracted to members of the same sex more than, but not exclusively to the opposite sex) automatically significantly decreases your chances of successfully reproducing and thus reduces your value to the species at whole.

Bottom line: Being gay is either

1) A choice

or

2) A severe genetic defect

It's not like you have to sit down and sign a paper and choose which sex you like.  It's an unconscious decision that's made based off of what you have been exposed to in life, and whether you like male genetalia or female genetaila. 

Answer me this:  Do you think that if a kid grew up in a really sheltered life, and never ever heard of a man being with a woman, and only ever saw his two fathers (or mothers) and never saw a man and a woman together, or been exposed to the notion that that was the "norm", that he'd like men or women?  I choose to believe that he would also be most comfortable in the presence of another man, and therefore choose men as his sexual preference.

I think rap and hip hop music is ruining our children, the black culture should be suppressed for the sake of American values.

Trying to suppress any group of people that isn't actively hurting anyone is gross ignorance brought on by prejudice and fear.

Progress has brought us women's liberation, desegregation, equal opportunity employment, made it illegal to discriminate against anyone, it has brought us incredible science and medicine. Jesus died two thousand years ago and hasn't done a damn thing for anyone since. Clinging onto tradition for the sake of tradition only forces suffering on those that have done nothing to deserve it. Why can't we all just get along?