Is this the part where I say because I chose to be straight? xD

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the part where you say you were born that way, i think

by Anonymous 13 years ago

YOU'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BABY I WAS BORN THIS WAY!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Because straight is the default setting. Gay is a perverted botched up setting, that people CHOOSE to.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Wait... so it's a setting... but you choose it? That's contradictory.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

*headdesk until falls into coma* *wakes up 30 years later and rereads comment* *repeats headdesk* for the sake of everyone with at least half a brain cell... SHUT UP!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

@925749: None of us would ever choose to be persecuted. Who would choose to be on the receiving end of hatred and violence? We aren't perverts. We're human beings just like any straight person. And like any straight person we were born this way. You can't just change sexualities like you can flip a switch. Are you attracted to those of the same sex? Just try to make yourself gay and it won't work. I'm not attracted to girls any more than I'm attracted to a rock or a goldfish. I'm gay. I've always been gay and always will be gay. There isn't a choice involved it's who I am. I can't change who I am. It's in my DNA.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"it's in my DNA" ...I can't help but get a feeling that it was from a song...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

"If you were gay" from Avenue Q

by Anonymous 13 years ago

catchy song.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Cuz baby you were born this way?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, but that whole "Why did you choose to be gay" "Why did YOU choose to be straight?" reply gives people like Amish_Dickhole an opportunity to say that being heterosexual is the only normal thing, and then any attraction to the same sex is a deviation.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You're absolutely right. It's still incredibly hard to believe he isn't a troll. Everything he says just seems to indicate he lives under a bridge.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't reckon he's a troll, because they are people like this in real life. But just from a lot of what he says, I think he's quite young, and I don't really see the point in reply or attempted discussion with him.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Under a bridge or under a rock. Hard to tell, really.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

*Warning! Christian Perspective!* Being gay is a natural tendency for some people. There are obviously some people who choose it as well. Regardless, it is a sin. According to the Christian Bible, it's very black and white; someone would have to try really hard to dispute that fact. Just because you were "born this way" doesn't mean it's just fine. All humans are born in sin, it's a little thing called "human nature". I am naturally selfish, and want what is best for me. This is a sin, just like the natural desire for the same sex. The good news, is that while all sin in some way (yes, straight people are sinners too ;D ) we are not judged by God for what we have done. We are justified on our recognition of being sinful, repenting those sins, and becoming new creations in Christ. In summary, this means that if you are born gay, God demands that you put off that sin, and do not neglect to recognize it as wrong. Just like for me, lusting may be natural, but it is also wrong

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Ok, but the thing is, some people don't believe in God.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

To me, God doesn't exist in any way, shape, or form. There's no all powerful being in my life. You're the first Christian to present a respectful argument though. I don't consider loving a sin at all. If I fall in love with a man then that should never be a crime. Love is the same for gay people as it is for straight people.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Thanks for not flaming me. It's not an easy issue for Christians to swallow either. As for love being a sin, it's a very good point you bring up. I don't know all the answers, sometimes I even question what I believe. But we if I can't stand firm to what my faith teaches, what CAN I stand to? Also, there are a lot of loves that are "sinful" besides gay ones. For example, a man may fall in love with another woman while he is married. It is love, but that doesn't mean it is right.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't condone cheating because it is hurtful, what I do isn't hurtful. When I first realized I was gay I was so scared, I ran. I went to the first church that I could and I poured myself into The Bible. I became a hypocrit, which is also a sin, but after reading The Bible, memorizing verses, praying daily frantically, I calmed down. I sat and I prayed and I listened and waited. I asked for forgiveness and for a solution to my "problem" and got no response I read the bible and realized that it was contradictory and improbable... Then I fell in love. With a man. He was handsome, smart, funny. He was gay and I asked him if we could meet sometime and talk and I asked him about God and religion and being gay and he stayed calm and just explained his views to me. They made more sense to me than anything my pastor ever said. He ended up being my first boyfriend, I have faith that we'd still be together if he didn't have to move away.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Problem is, not every sect of Christianity nor even every individual within a sect believes that. And, society as a whole should not be dictated by people interpretations of religion. From a social perspective, a man is a consenting adult, a woman is a consenting adult, a man and a woman can having consenting sex and enter a relationship, two men can have consenting sex and enter a relationship, and two women can have consenting sex and enter a relationship.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm not saying my view should influence society. I agree with your idea that gay relationships should be legal

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So...God 'created' some people to be born gay, only to then say that anything that they do in regard to love is a sin. So basically, gay people are never supposed to fall in love, since if they do, it's automatically a sin. That's nice. :/

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Read one of my above comments. Not everything is perfectly clear in my eyes either. Basically, I believe that God created man and woman to be together (Adam and Eve). This was designed by God and was good. Sin (including homosexuality) entered the world through the fall of man, when Adam and Eve were tempted, sinned, and were exposed to good and evil. Since the fall, all men are under the curse of sin, which is why we need God's grace. I guess this means that homosexuality was not created by God, but by man's fall. Just like all other sins

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I am a Christian who believes in God, (obviously) and I have to disagree with your definition of sin. A sin in my book is an action that hurts or harms other people. By being selfish, you harm other's chances at getting something. By being lazy, you harm yourself by not living up to your potential. That being said, being gay doesn't harm anyone. I don't see any reason how. Sure, maybe it takes some men and women off the market, but maybe the gay person would be extremely unhappy in a straight relationship, harming him. You don't have to agree with my views, but I'm just pointing out my views as a Christian.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My only problem with that interpretation of sin is that it isn't supported by the Bible.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm a Christian and I believe it's a sin, but so is sleeping around or doing drugs.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm a Christian and I believe that misinterpreted passages from a book written for a society over 2000 years ago says that being a woman, or being black, or being Jewish are all sins, so yah everyone, the government shouldn't endorse stuff that's sins, so stop being female or black or being Jewish because being white, male and Christian are all the defaults and being otherwise is just a choice. BTW, if you don't agree with me, you aren't a true Christian, because a true Christian agrees with everything in the Bible, even the stuff that contradicts all the other stuff, and especially the stuff I twist around my own agenda.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yes, the Bible is interpreted. Yes, people have gotten some pretty crazy ideas from the Bible that are now seen as wrong. However, the Bible (for any Christian) also has some undisputed truths that are made extremely clear. Homosexuality is not simply read in between the lines of scripture, but is condemned as sinful in both the Old and New Testaments.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

and where exactly did you get that being a woman or being black is a sin? The bible encourages love between races(i.e. the good Samaritan and the Ethiopian Unich) and Jesus had many followers that were women(i.e. Mary and the woman at the well)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Because they're different, and any true Christian shuns people that are different. Just as we should send gay people to camps to have shock treatment to anti-gay them, we should send black people to camps to be dipped into bleach, to save the moral majority from ever laying eyes onto anyone different from themselves. And women are clearly inferior in the Bible; they should be locked in a room and only used for reproduction - after all, a woman is little more than a baby factory. After we find some guy on the street to marry her, of course - because marriage isn't about love or commitment, the only thing that matters is your partner is the opposite sex.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I can't tell if you're trolling or not.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Me or him?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I didn't say we should shun gay people. I'm saying that it is wrong, but people who live together before marriage and stuff are just as much in the wrong. They are all sins. We're taught to treat everybody as we would want to be treated. I'm nice to homosexuals, I just don't agree with their lifestyle, just like I would to a couple that is living together before they are married. At that time it wasn't socially acceptable for women to work, so of course she needed to get married or live under her family's house.She was told to take a week of rest when she had her period, because women are in a weaker state at that time. Life was so hard at that time, she didn't have to worry about walking miles to the market and carrying everything back because she had cramps so that wouldn't be fun. Israelites were told to be kind to alien residents and as long as they followed the laws they received protection. This debate is useless. You obviously just want to argue. Good day.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

None of that is relevant...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I really don't know where you're coming from. Have you read the Bible? Love is the crux of the Christian life, not intolerance.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

People are straight because being straight is normal, being gay is not.

by Anonymous 8 years ago