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Can people be born homosexual?

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    #32
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,062 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Call_Me,Stan wrote:
    Guys, let me know what you think about this link.

    Personally, I feel it makes a lot of sense.

    http://www.pureintimacy.org/gr/homosexuality/a0000055.cfm

    ah yes very unbiased source in NARTH :mad:

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #33
    AARRRGH
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    I haven't read all the posts, but the gay bloke who looks feminine and talks like a girl surely was born gay.

    And the lesbian girl who looks like a bloke and talks like a bloke surely was born lesbian.

    I don't see why not???


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    #34
    Call_Me,Stan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 56 ✭✭Call_Me,Stan


    I don't see why???


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    #35
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,062 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    how does that link make a lot of sense to you?

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #36
    Cronus333
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    What on earth?!! Who in thei right mind wuld actually believe that nonesense?

    Actually, the people who wrote that were proberbly as right minded as you can get.....:D


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    #37
    Hancin' Damster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭Hancin' Damster


    Can people be born homosexual?

    Yes. Quite simply, yes.


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    #38
    ianmc38
    Registered Users Posts: 7,754 ✭✭✭ianmc38


    Personally, I don't believe in the existence of a "gay gene". I think the reason behind many peoples homosexuality can be found by analysing there childhood and the relationship they had with parents etc.


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    #39
    Hmm_Messiah
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    ianmc38 wrote:
    Personally, I don't believe in the existence of a "gay gene". I think the reason behind many peoples homosexuality can be found by analysing there childhood and the relationship they had with parents etc.

    Such an understanding is flawed unless you can explain why homosexuality is not more commonly shared among siblings who have shared the same childhood and similar parental relationships.

    Its like explaining some people's criminal behaviour by refering to their childhood and environment. Many others sharing the same experience do not resort to criminality.

    I image it does "contribute" in some instances at least.

    Personally I find the "why" of gayness unimportant


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    #40
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    ianmc38 wrote:
    Personally, I don't believe in the existence of a "gay gene". I think the reason behind many peoples homosexuality can be found by analysing there childhood and the relationship they had with parents etc.

    And you're basing that on what?

    And you're ignoring the biological evidence to the contrary why?

    EDIT: For the record, it is very unlikely that there is a "gay gene", but that does not mean there isn't a biological reason. Considering that we're dicussing something as complex as the functioning of the human brain then it is likely that the genetic basis is extremely complex, no mere single gene, but a combined effect of many.


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    #41
    WexCan
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    Hmm_Messiah wrote:
    Personally I find the "why" of gayness unimportant

    Agree 100%... I think if you stop asking why it helps you on the way to accepting yourself.


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    #42
    lifesucks
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    Today someone was talking to me about gay people. They didnt realise that I was gay and they said that they thought 'gayness' was some sort of mental condition.


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    #43
    damien
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    lifesucks wrote:
    and they said that they thought 'gayness' was some sort of mental condition.

    But so is love.


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    #44
    WexCan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭WexCan


    damien.m wrote:
    But so is love.
    Indeed, but being gay is part of who you are. I suppose loving someone is the same.

    As I said above, why do we really need to know what causes people to be gay? Does it really matter?


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