What Do the Bible Say about Beg Born Gay? | Crossway Articl

Contents:

• ARE WE BORN GAY?
• IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
• ARE YOU BORN GAY OR IS A CHOICE? SCIENTISTS MIGHT HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER
• WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT BEG BORN GAY?
• CLIL STUDY CONFIRMS PEOPLE ARE NOT BLOGILLY “BORN GAY”
• AM I GAY?

ARE WE BORN GAY?

Will our child grow up to be gay or straight? ) and adult homosexualy.

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IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?

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ARE YOU BORN GAY OR IS A CHOICE? SCIENTISTS MIGHT HAVE FOUND THE ANSWER

Maybe we n agree that the image evoked by "born gay"—that ltle girl neonate appearg wearg overalls and graspg a toy tck—do not help thk through qutns of sexual sire and inty. Beg gay is not a choice for people.

What we do know is that there isn’t one sgle gene that explas homosexualy.

WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT BEG BORN GAY?

The most nvcg data about the geic basis of homosexualy om lookg at tws. Beg gay has a lot to do wh geics.

Some of the bt evince that homosexualy has a strong geic part om tw studi. Tw studi of homosexualy have shown that intil tws are about twice as likely to both be gay pared to aternal tws.

This means that beg gay is partly geic, and not simply somethg that a person learns or choos. If the DNA sequence were the only thg termg whether someone is gay or not, we would expect intil tws to match 100% of the time. If one tw is gay, the other is gay about 50% of the time as well.

CLIL STUDY CONFIRMS PEOPLE ARE NOT BLOGILLY “BORN GAY”

What other factors might fluence whether someone is gay? When lookg at large fai, scientists saw that men wh lots of olr brothers were more likely to be gay. Men wh lots of olr brothers are more likely to be gay.

AM I GAY?

Of urse, this isn’t the only environmental explanatn for how people are born gay – there are plenty of men wh olr brothers who are not gay.

And there are plenty of gay men wh no olr brothers! Even though the evince is pretty strong for homosexualy beg partly geic, some people don’t accept .