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They are individual findings that have not been reproduced or deemed as factual by the scientific community... if it WERE scientifically proven, you and your little homosexual friends would have had it ALL OVER the mainstream media and all in the court system.... the fact is that you have a couple of scientists stating something, posting incomplete findings into some scattered press outlets...
As stated... it is either natural (genetic), learned behavior/psychopathology, or choice... as a choice so be it, I don't give a shit... but a choice does not gain you preferential treatment, hence why your community does not support this.... and as a genetic abnormality or deviant pathology, as in other such things, CURES ARE SOUGHT... but funny that such a thing is not embraced if homosexuality is indeed PROVEN To be either one of these things... why??? because of your agenda.. plain and simple
Dave I'm going to appeal to what I had previously thought was some common sense on your part. You know you and I agree on lot of things; following the constitution, the economy, small government. etc. But your views on homosexuality are an example of what the right wing politicians need to drop from their agenda if they want to get a foothold of control in congress. It's a losing battle and it's a morally wrong battle.
I get your point that people should not have the right to assign themselves as certain things for the purpose of gaining preferential treatment from the government, and I agree, but that is a separate issue. It's makes more sense to tackle that problem from the persepctive why government needs to make those distinctions in the first place. Look at it another way. I'm not gay, you're not gay, but there would be financial benefits to you and I being recognized as married by the government. Has nothing to do with love or romance, it's just a mutually beneficial business arrangment. So, since government really can't prove two people love each other, to me the solution would be get government out of it. For tax purposes everyone should be treated as an individual which I think you agree with.
But as to actually being gay being a choice. I appeal to what I percieved to be some common sense in you. Common sense says it's not a choice. Proof? I ask you the same question I asked the two bigots on here. Could you choose to FEEL attracted to a man?
I am a product of my experiences.. and my choice to be attracted to and marry a fiery redhead did not come from my genetics.. but my experiences, stimuli, actions, etc along the way... I also have made the conscious choice never to date a redhead again after my divorce... hence changing my realm of attraction... my experiences and the patterns of my life to this point, as well as the beliefs I choose, would make it highly improbable that I would choose to be attracted to a man... but much like Pavlov's dog, you can lead a subject to a behavior... and much like prisoners in jail choosing to act in a homosexual manner, the choice can be made whether all do so or not
We are a product of what has transpired in our lives until this point.. and our choices are based on experiences, knowledge, training, and so many other things.... and because someone FEELS that their actions are natural, does not make it genetic... and until complete scientific proof would show me otherwise, I put homosexuality in a place between learned behavior/psychopathology and conscious choice...
And if shown to be a genetic abnormality.. as with other genetic abnormalities, I welcome research into a cure or treatment so that parents of afflicted children and adults afflicted with the abnormality could try and cure or prevent it.. just like research into treatment or prevention of things such as Downs Syndrome, Klinefelter's syndrome, Proteus syndrome, or whatever else
then your attraction to redhead's isn't a choice at all if it is a product of your experience. If what you say is true then at birth we are neither homosexual or heterosexual, correct?
You didn't answer my question either.