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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. 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. That was also when I intified myself as “gay.
NO, I DIDN'T CHOOSE TO BE 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 distctly remember the first time I chatted onle wh another gay person; I was very nervo and exced. 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. 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.
WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?
People choose to be gay. Government should protect gay people om discrimatn bee homosexualy is an unalterable aspect of their inty. “Beg gay is bad.
How wonrful is that nobody has to be gay!
“Homosexual behavr should be allowed to take place. Perhaps sexual preference n be changed – and people have the right to engage gay sex and have homosexual relatnships if they choose to do so. (The fourth optn, that gay people have no choice but to be gay, but should be punished for anyway, is morally unthkable.
I DIDN’T CHOOSE TO BE GAY
A gay man is more likely than a straight man to have a (blogil) gay brother; lbians are more likely than straight women to have gay sisters. In 1993, a study published the journal Science showed that fai wh two homosexual brothers were very likely to have certa geic markers on a regn of the X chromosome known as Xq28. This led to media headl about the possibily of the existence of a “gay gene” and discsns about the ethics of abortg a “gay” fet.
Your culture affects your views on homosexualy.
In some societi, homosexualy is accepted, others, is owned upon but tolerated, yet others, is a ser crimal offense, possibly punishable by ath. Male homosexual behavr was expected ancient Athens.
"I DIDN'T CHOOSE; I WAS CHOSEN": GAY RIGHTS.
Today, rual male homosexualy plays an important role some cultur New Guea.
What you have learned about homosexualy as you were growg up will affect whether you nsir engagg homosexual acts to be sirable or disgtg. Some people might argue that if you are “geilly gay” but the thought of homosexualy nseat you, then you jt haven’t accepted the fact that you really are gay.
IS ANYONE BORN GAY?
That argument is based on the assumptn that sexual preference is purely blogil; therefore, has no place a discsn about the possible of homosexualy.
In 1991, a study published the journal Science seemed to show that the hypothalam, which ntrols the release of sex hormon om the puary gland, gay men differs om the hypothalam straight men.
The third terstial nucls of the anterr hypothalam (INAH3) was found to be more than twice as large heterosexual men as homosexual men. This study was cricized bee ed bra tissue obtaed at topsi, and all of the homosexual subjects the study were believed to have died of AIDS.