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Discussion: What If I Chose to be Gay?
Member Since: 8/16/2011
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That's why Gay community aren't taken seriously,When you have people who aren't gay or bi "experimenting" it makes us look like were choosing to engage in a homosexual lifetyle.Plus the bible Condemning Homosexuality isn't helping either.
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Member Since: 10/8/2009
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Originally posted by satellites™
When he is done, you can't choose who you are attracted to by NATURE, you can **** whomever you want, and act on whatever urges you have, but you don't CHOOSE to be sexually attracted to another man.
That's why the definition of homosexual needs to be rewritten.
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I've always thought that's why a lot of people think it's a choice - they think being gay is having sex with another guy.
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Member Since: 8/29/2011
Posts: 9,504
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Originally posted by ****y On Venus
It seems that the "nature" argument, or, rather, the "people are born gay" argument, is the only basis for others' acceptance of LGBTQ folk and, for many of us, the only basis for acceptance of ourselves. As a result, we continue to regurgitate findings from scientific guilds to support our claims of "truth" regarding our worthiness and full humanity.
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I affirm my LGBTQ brothers and sisters who name and claim their sexualities and expressions as part of their being. But I also want to push back against those who feel as if there is only one right (pun intended) way to think about our sexual selves. What if one's affinity towards, attraction to, desire to be intimate with, and/or love for another person of the same sex is a choice after all? What if we, including those of us who are LGBTQ-identified, considered what it might mean if we only relied on the nature argument to somehow prove that we aren't morally inept, sinful, hell-bound, deviant, lustful, and/or community-destroying bodies?
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great article, thanks for posting.
I do believe that I was born gay, but I think there are a variety of environmental and psychological factors that shape sexuality throughout our lives. like the author of this article, I wish we could retire the nature vs. nurture debate in regards to homosexuality. it just isn't valuable in the fight for human rights.
what if being gay is a choice? does that make gay people any less deserving of equal rights? of course not.
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Member Since: 8/3/2010
Posts: 71,871
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Originally posted by ChrisRTW
That's why Gay community aren't taken seriously,When you have people who aren't gay or bi "experimenting" it makes us look like were choosing to engage in a homosexual lifetyle.Plus the bible commending Homosexuality isn't helping either.
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What word are you thinking of? Commending means to praise
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Member Since: 12/21/2010
Posts: 51,088
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Originally posted by RatedG²
What word are you thinking of? Commending means to praise
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Condemning, I'm guessing.
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Member Since: 8/16/2011
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Originally posted by RatedG²
What word are you thinking of? Commending means to praise
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Yea i use the wrong word lmao
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Member Since: 8/3/2010
Posts: 71,871
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Originally posted by Fozzie
Condemning, I'm guessing.
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Makes sense
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Member Since: 6/25/2008
Posts: 20,616
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You can only choose to expirance with all kind of sex, you can't choose who you're attracted to.
If you're attracted to boys and you say you are straight than you're just lying to yourself and vica versa.
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Member Since: 5/17/2010
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Originally posted by Space
great article, thanks for posting.
I do believe that I was born gay, but I think there are a variety of environmental and psychological factors that shape sexuality throughout our lives. like the author of this article, I wish we could retire the nature vs. nurture debate in regards to homosexuality. it just isn't valuable in the fight for human rights.
what if being gay is a choice? does that make gay people any less deserving of equal rights? of course not.
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EXACTLY.
Why do I have to justify my sexuality just to earn the same rights as a heterosexual? If I did choose to be gay, why is that so horrible?
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Member Since: 12/21/2010
Posts: 51,088
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Originally posted by ****y On Venus
If I did choose to be gay, why is that so horrible?
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Then it becomes a very slippery slope...or at least in the arguments of those that are anti-equality.
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Member Since: 9/23/2009
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Sexuality is a scale. No one is purely 100% straight or gay.
However, being gay is not a choice. If it was, then there would be no gay people.
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Member Since: 11/11/2010
Posts: 1,569
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The world needs to get over this pronto.
I think being able to choose wether or not you're gay or straight would make everyone bisexual in a sense. There are literally some gay and lesbians who are repulsed by the opposite genders genitalia, and there's nothing they can do about it.
I don't think they woke up one day and said, "Well, today i think i'll be into Penis!"
A lot of people are confused sexually only because of societal pressures. If being gay wasn't such a taboo, people wouldn't be so strung up about it, and we would have FAR LESS confused and suicidal gay teens.
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Member Since: 3/6/2011
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Originally posted by ifyouseekLEM
However, being gay is not a choice. If it was, then there would be no gay people.
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That's a lie. I love being gay and I wouldn't have it any other way. You can choose which lifestyle you wanna live.
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Member Since: 6/25/2008
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It's kinda funny though.
How straight people can't imagine themselfs being attracted to the same sex but having a hard time understanding that for gay people it's the same with imagining themself being attracted to the other sex.
I mean, how can they understand that for them being straight is something that is just so clear and not a choice but can't understand that gay people are the same.
Like I would want to choose the harder road in life, or anyone for that matter o.O.
#JustSaying.
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Member Since: 4/21/2009
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I never thought ppl were "Born gay" anyway. It's ****ing impossible.
I don't believe that most choose it either.
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Member Since: 10/8/2009
Posts: 35,527
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Originally posted by ifyouseekLEM
Sexuality is a scale. No one is purely 100% straight or gay. |
I don't agree with this at all.
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Member Since: 6/25/2011
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Originally posted by Space
great article, thanks for posting.
I do believe that I was born gay, but I think there are a variety of environmental and psychological factors that shape sexuality throughout our lives. like the author of this article, I wish we could retire the nature vs. nurture debate in regards to homosexuality. it just isn't valuable in the fight for human rights.
what if being gay is a choice? does that make gay people any less deserving of equal rights? of course not.
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Nailed it.
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Member Since: 10/8/2009
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Originally posted by LoveVsMoney
I never thought ppl were "Born gay" anyway. It's ****ing impossible. |
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Member Since: 8/3/2010
Posts: 71,871
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Originally posted by DrunkNHotBoyz
That's a lie. I love being gay and I wouldn't have it any other way. You can choose which lifestyle you wanna live. |
Try saying that in some African countries
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Member Since: 9/17/2011
Posts: 9,051
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You are who you are...now you can CHOOSE to be who you are or CHOOSE to be something that you're not.
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