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Do you think that people choose to be gay?
or does it just happen?
I think that it isn`t a choice, and you can`t control it. I just want to see other peoples opinions.
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YES! I do believe people choose to be gay.
And in order to believe this, I must also believe that the opposite is true; People also choose NOT to be gay.
These statements might sound confusing but I have seem many examples of both cases.
In this world you always have a choice; to live as you want to live, to live as you know you ought to live, to live as others think you should live. You, too, have this choice. Myself, I have choosen all of these. I chose, and some may say selfishly, to live a gay life. But I could of just as easily chosen not to, like many have for one reason or another. I chose to try very hard to live my life as a considerate, empathetic, good person because I believe there are good and bad people in every social group and in every race and gender. I know that there are many people who have been taught wrong information about my lifestyle, so for their benefit I chose to live the life of a role model despelling all their preconceived notions as to how I should act, speak, and live. And lastly, I chose to live as a created being -- which is the actual point of your question. Yes, I believe I was born gay, but this belief brings me no comfort. Being gay is just another one of my physical characteristics, a part of who I am. It is not for me to know whether God made me gay, and I could honestly spend my entire life wasting time pondering whether or not I was biologically born gay. If the search for this answer helps you in any way please persue your goal. But for me, I don't need an explaination. If anything brings me discomfort, if anything in this world lowers my self esteem, its not the Christian spiritual belief that I am a selfish sinner, that I chose to be gay and that my soul is going to Hell. I feel sorry for the religious zealots who, to quote Jesus on the cross, "who know not what they do". They are just being spoonfed their beliefs rather than doing the gruntwork by validating their own independent beliefs. (To correct one of these poor souls who chose to respond to your question - its "Adam and Steve", not "Steve and Eve") No, what brings me shame and discomfort is the way I am treated by other gays. Day to day, I am judged more ruthlessly by bigoted, egotistical, bitter, depressed gay people than any other social group. This is the world I chose to live in, this is the reason I try to be a good person, this is my disclaimer to those that judge us.
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