THE GENETICS OF HOMOSEXUALITY

it is 100% a choice.... but this is where people get confused, they think a choice is ONLY a concious choice.... rubbish!!. take for example the person that is always miserable and blaming everyone ells for the problems and always seeing the worst

they are clearly the ones causing their problems.. when you say to this person, "you are clearly choosing to be miserable" they will blow up in your face, saying how dare you, I want to be happy like everyone ells. when in fact, they have grown accustomed to being miserable, it is their normal state of mind, so they continue to CHOOSE this path.

exactly the same as gays saying, i wish i was straight, life would be so much easier.... what you wish for and what you actually do are completely different things. the mind is incredibly powerful and can surpass any physical influence. for example a person can believe in their mind so strongly that they are sick, that they will start to vomit. or actually become sick..just the same as a desire for the opposite sex can be dulled and even completely removed over years and years of subconsciously choosing to be gay.

I don't know the particular path that these people chose and the decisions that shaped their mind over time, but what i do know is that it was INFLUENCED... what ever they were once, was influenced to become something other that that.

any person under the "right" factors can gain a gay sexual orientation, and any gay under different circumstances would not have become gay..... unless of course the other scenario played out in a way that promoted gayness. but yes...highly unlikely.

now my problem is not with gay people, i have gay friends, my problem is that society treats them like a separate "born this way" people that should have seperate rights and responsibilities... that is the annoying part, they are just people with a different sexual orientation, like bestiality, dendrophiliac or pedophillia. ur not born a pedophile, you become one... should we give pedos the right to marriage now, and be all politically correct when talking about them. rubbish!! should we allow a man to marry a tree (dendrophilia).

im sure the pedo and the tree lover wish they were "normal" and say its not their choice, but yeh sorry it is, the mind is made over time and whether you take notice of it or not, its still happening.

if you wish you were a certain way, then guard your mind and take concious incremental steps to get where you want to be. its fine to have a gay sexual orientation but don't claim all this other nonsense along with it. its one small aspect of your life, a sexual aspect that is slanted towards men. some people like getting urinated on,some people like being dominated, some people like being treated as a child and yes some men like other men..... gayness is ONLY a sexual orientation, not a seperate part of the species,like seriously, men woman and gays... come on get real people..

it has never been proven, please show where you found this info

So you think they are immoral because they aren't choosing to be who you want them to be?

So you are afraid that because homosexuality of 2 consenting adults can be rationalized, that people will somehow begin to say it is okay to molest innocent children because of it as well?

no you are not born that way. It does not say anywhere that being gay is a gene they say there is a possiblity it is a gene. Being gay is a choise not a good choise. Kind of like when you are little and you want a cookie but mom says no so you make the chois to disobey that is your choise. Homosexuality is a desicoin, I am not gay and i do not dislike gay people i just want them to know the truth about what they do. I do not dislike gay people i dislike what they do because it is wrong.

You're not gay, you're hurt. Why is it that most gay people "become gay" after they've had a bad heterosexual relationship? Get over it, and move on to the next guy. Not for anything, but guys have a penis and girls have a vagina for a reason....it's a perfect fit!

Actually, genetics play a large part in alcoholism.

you are definitely a very sad and insecure being. I pray none of your kids "turns" gay so they won't have to deal with such homophobia and ignorance. Enjoy your "perfect" life.

Marissa - you are wise beyond your years.

Is there a gene for being attracted to an animal? Or is there a gene for liking both men and woman at the same time? Is there a gene which makes you feel you need many all at once? Is there a gene for wanting to be a drag queen? HHHMMMMM

I think I will keep it very simple..normalcy is a Man attracted to a woman and a woman attracted to a man for procreation purposes....This is the way to go!!! (Being Normal)......

Of course not. You can ask the same thing of an Alcoholic and he will say about the same thing . . . There is nothing wrong in my drinking. It is NOT Genetic anything . . . It's a brain disorder that is highly treatable and highly curable.

I find it very interesting that the only people who claim to understand the origins of homosexuality are those who would know least about it (aka heterosexuals). Even most gay people can admit no one knows the absolute truth of the matter, only that they know it was not a conscious choice. The concept of choosing to be a homosexual is the most ridiculous notion that has ever been invented, as there has never been any evidence to back this claim. On the contrary, all supporting evidence seems to negate the claim entirely. If being gay was a choice, there would not be hundreds of related suicides every year. Teens would not endure their mother, father, and loved ones indefinitely turning their backs on them because of a simple "choice". Homosexuals would not risk their lives every day fighting just as hard to be equal as african americans did during the civil rights movement if being gay was a matter of choice; they do it because they know, too, that deep down this discrimination is as inhumane and unjust as any, and they keep doing it because with heavy hearts they realize it may just take people equally as long to open their eyes.

I am the proud product of an artificial insemination via a sperm donor and my lesbian mother. There remained an absence of heterosexual influence throughout my entire upbringing and yet here I am, at 20 years old and fully functional in my sexual development, a straight female. A straight female who has never had problems cultivating relationships with males, but instead has been able to hold a serious long-term heterosexual relationship exceptionally well. Now, Lorjun, I believe that we can safely say that your argument holds up absolutely no credibility in real-life situations, or even hypothetical ones for that matter. Comparing a homosexual ran house hold to that of a family of murderers is about the equivalent of using an orange to help explain the makings of an apple. You see, homosexuals do not discourage heterosexuality. They embrace it with open arms. They are well aware they are living a lifestyle most believe not to be the "standard norm". They find it odd that such a large portion of the heterosexual community is constantly obsessing over their way of life.

I am confused myself over what exactly all of you fear will happen if we were to just let them co-exist with us- it's as if you think at any moment they are going to burst through your dining room windows, interrupt your perfect conventional heterosexual family dinner, and start jumping on your tables dancing and screaming at your children "It's good to be gay!!!!". No, they have and will remain unobtrusive in your family life, why can't you do the same for them? Perhaps you can take all that wasted energy and do something progressive and useful with it, like plant some trees or teach your children how to be good people.

Because just as my mother never taught me to be gay, she certainly never taught me it was okay to discriminate against others for their harmless differences. Instead, she taught me this; to be compassionate and caring for others, to love, to laugh, to enjoy beauty and learn from pain, to find my passion and be proud of my accomplishments, to yearn for a better world dictated by peace and love, to seek knowledge and question everything, to stand up for what I believe in and remain strong when others try to knock me down, and above all else, that despite whatever differences and discrepancies lie on the surface, at our very core, we are all still human, we are all connected, so reach out a hand to your brothers and sisters of this spectacular world we all live on and just rejoice in the wonderment of being alive. rejoice in the wonderment of being you.

Are you saying that homosexuality is like murder?!?! I have many Homosexual friends and speaking upon their behalf there is nothing wrong with homosexuality! They were born into it and shame on you for trying to deprive them of love and happiness!

Not everything comes down to decisions and choices. though we are lead to believe that we can do most anything we set our minds to that is not neccissarially the case. Our genes play a heavy role in who we are right now. you seemed to have missed this vital point. We are the products of our genes and environments aswell as our decisions and choices. if you are suggesting that choices are what make us who we are and all you need to do to get good grades is study, what do you make of people who are genetically predisposed to having learing disiblilities, regardless of the amount of study they may never be able to attain high grades. i suppose you are simallarly suggesting that alcoholism is a choice, though it is defined as an incurable (arguably genetically linked) disease. What makes homosexuality any differnt? humans are not the only animals which have the tendancy to be homo, hetero or bisexual. this must suggest a genetic liniage? our environment and genes combined with our ability to make decisions and ill say it, luck give us the product of who we are today, not meerly our choices