"I didn't choose; I was chosen": Gay Rights. | Teen Ink

Contents:

• I DIDN’T CHOOSE TO BE GAY
• NO, I DIDN'T CHOOSE TO BE GAY
• WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?
• I DIDN’T CHOOSE TO BE GAY
• "I DIDN'T CHOOSE; I WAS CHOSEN": GAY RIGHTS.
• IS ANYONE BORN GAY?

I DIDN’T CHOOSE TO BE GAY

No, you are not born gay. I do not hate gay people.

NO, I DIDN'T CHOOSE TO BE GAY

But I thk the ia of "beg born gay" is ridiculo!

I believe gayns is a thg one velops durg adolcence and the early teen years. I don't believe that people make an active choice one day and ci to be gay or not.

WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?

That was also when I intified myself as “gay. There wasn’t anyone I uld talk to about this area of my life—not my fay nor my iends—so I looked onle for lol muni of people who were gay, and I found some.

I DIDN’T CHOOSE TO BE GAY

I distctly remember the first time I chatted onle wh another gay person; I was very nervo and exced.

"I DIDN'T CHOOSE; I WAS CHOSEN": GAY RIGHTS.

Bee I hadn’t gone to church sce I beme a Christian primary school and wasn’t discipled God’s tths on sexualy, I mistakenly nclud that was okay wh God for me to pursue my gay sir. I tried many ways to look for a gay relatnship and, regrettably, also fell to sexual s wh other guys many tim.

Though I no longer intify myself as “gay, ” I still experience attractn to men.

IS ANYONE BORN GAY?

I know you don’t feel this way right now—not when God jt told you to stop pursug a gay relatnship. In the thick of our disagreement that night, God planted this thought my head: “Your belief that Christiany is patible wh homosexualy is based on the borrowed arguments of others who hold such nvictns.

People choose to be gay.

Government should protect gay people om discrimatn bee homosexualy is an unalterable aspect of their inty.