Certain sectors of society say they do not condemn homosexuals just the homosexual act or practices.  So, what exactly constitute a homosexual act/practice? If a straight man performs similar acts what becomes now of his sexuality? If a gay person decides not to engage in any sexual act with anyone from this day on, is he/she still a homosexual?
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A homosexual is defined as someone who is romantically and sexually attracted to the same gender.\n\nThe key words there are "romantically" and "sexually". If a straight guy has sex with someone of the same gender, the action may be a homosexual action, but that doesn't necessarily change the persons orientation. They may only do it once and never again and there may have been circumstances (like alcohol or drugs, etc) to explain the otherwise odd behavior. The rest of the time the guy always has sex with the opposite sex and persues romantic relationships with the opposite sex. That makes him heterosexual. If he prefers to engage in both sex and romantic relationships with both genders that would make him bisexual and depending on the degree of his bisexuality would determine which gender he prefered to seek out most (man or woman). If a homosexual man decides not to engage in any sexual action, that doesn't mean the desire to has gone away. Nor does that mean that the man's desire to be romantic with another man has gone away either (and oddly the Bible and other sacred texts often used to condemn homosexuality only talk about the sexual act, but not the romantic act...apparently it's okay to be romantic with your own gender). \n\nThat is why it is odd when people say things like "hate the sin, but love the sinner" and then call homosexuality a sin. They simplify homosexuality often down to the action of sex with the same gender.....yet, these same people who say that this is the sin will then continue to condemn the person for simply having the homosexual desires still even if they are not engaging in sexual acts. \n\nThe basic thing that most people miss is that being homosexual isn't just about wanting to just have sex with someone of the same gender. It is about being romantically attracted to the same gender, too. Falling in love with the same gender. Sex may never actually enter into the picture of some homosexuals who are in romantic and loving relationships....yet they are condemned and told they are going to hell because it is assumed that they are having sex or assumed that just by them sharing love with each other that this is wrong (yet, do we not love our friends and family, too...and yet loving friends and family of the same gender is not wrong, why is it wrong when we find a romantic companion whom we may not even engage in sexual acts with?)\n\n\nI see a lot of hypocrisy with the issue and being a homosexual myself, I decided to stop caring about what other people think and focus my life on God without them and their opinions (because if hypocrisy exists in their opinions, then it cannot be from God). I'm a Hindu now, a religion that is very diverse and ranges on its views. When it comes to homosexuality, any condemnation that some Hindu sects have of it isn't based upon religious belief, it is usually about defending tradition or other reasons.
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No.  I believe some people are born with gay tendencies, but they still have a choice whether to act on them on not.  Being gay shouldn't be classified with theives and murderers though.  They aren't harming other people.  One can have their own beliefs without using harsh words or bashing.  It is against God to be gay but we are all under construction and have to find out the hard way on everything on this earth.  God said "Judge not, lest you be judged".  A gay person may be living in sin and won't admit it but they still have feelings and the right to be treated with respect just like everyone else.  How else will they open their ears to the truth?
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I played with GI Joe when I was growing up but so did my best friend and He is as straight as an arrow . Nothing can make you gay you are born gay . Sexual orientation is determined before birth and no one  can choose to be gay or straight . Nothing can make them gay or straight .  A straight man can't decide he is gay and change his attraction for women and a gay man can't decide he is straight and  change his attraction for men .
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Ten percent is probably a huge exaggeration, though it somehow became the standard figure for a while. This may date back to the 1950s, when Alfred Kinsey published his books about sexuality. Because many people who didn't identify as homosexual had had homosexual experiences nonetheless, some people read these data and concluded exclusive homosexuality was much more common than it probably is.\n\nThere are SO many variables involved in determining the underlying conditions behind your very good question. Gender identity is so fluid and flexible that people don't always fit easily into categories "homosexual," "heterosexual," "bisexual," and the like. \n\nAnother complication is that, although you ask the question very broadly, a given percentage of any specific population - a self-selected or self-identified one, for example = won't necessarily have a constant statistical proportion of people of any given sexuality represented within it. And variables that may not seem to correlate at all with sexual behavior of the members of a group may be better determinants of what those people identify themselves as. \n\nIn some cultures, the concept of "gay" or "homosexual" in the Western European & American senses of those terms don't really exist. Other social constructions of same-sex relationships under different conditions, with rituals, subdialects, and patterns of secrecy exist that it would be unfair to characterize in the same terms that we use in the West.\n\nSo, I haven't given you a percentage, but I hope this helps a little.\n\nBy the way, I'm about 90% gay myself. The other ten percent vacillates between being curious and being sleepy.
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Many straight people have resorted to homosexuality while in prison. It has always been observed. That is one reason why it didn't make sense to lock up homosexuals like we did in the old days; the homosexuality usually got reinforced. Therapy would have been a better route.
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I remember reading about this in college.  It's interesting to show how hetero and homosexuality changes with each culture and age.  It just goes to show you how wrong it is to say that homosexuality is a mental illness, as the military still defines it to this day.  Sexuality lays on a spectrum with hetero and one end and homo at the other.  Most people are neither completely one nor the other, but lay somewhere in the middle.  How we deal with this fact of human nature is determined by the social contract.  Some societies sanction it, some make it illegal, either way the human condition remains the same.  \n\nAlthough growing up in the US today makes us feel that this relationship is disturbing to say the least, there will be a time when future societies look upon our laws and say, "What the F*!@k"\n\n:D
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Nope. If they are straight, they are straight, as long as we are talking about non-porn roles. If you are talking about porn here, well, you can get into some really tricky arguments about whether someone is gay. It seems very possible that some straight porn actors (especially females but not exclusively) may be led to perform homosexual acts by force, while still others may simply want the money.
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Perhaps it's just an easy out for people who don't quite know what to do with homosexuality as a concept or as a practice.  There is a small part of the queer movement who believes that sexuality (important to note that not JUST homosexuality) is a choice which, I suppose, I could support more than just saying that homosexuality is choice.\n\nAnyway, other than that faction within the queer group, it is mainly heterosexual people who I hear that say that to be homosexual is a choice.  I would think it is simple for a person in a heterosexuals position to say that simply because the logic would be, "Well, I choose to be straight because I'm not attracted to (whatever)."  That is just an interesting statement (which I know I am generalizing, but I have certainly heard that one more than a few times) simply because it is defining sexuality based on what it's NOT.  \n\nAnother interesting thing is that it's always homosexuality that is the choice, but NEVER just plain old sexuality in whatever form it comes.  \n\nBuuuut beyond that ............ I have no clue why people think that sexuality is a choice.  You like what you like.  I like apples a lot, but I'm not such a fan of oranges (but I do like clementines).  I like women a lot, but I'm not such a fan of men (but I do like some).  That sums it up for me - it's not a matter of choice or really preference, but just what I like.
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what i find more interesting, is that in the religion questions, everyone is hyper-focused on homosexuality.  like that is the only sin being committed right now.  and like i'm gonna be punished for things that you do.  i'm thinking of doing some research on this.  why has homosexuality become the major focus in religious circles?
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According to most scientists and psychologist, being gay is physiological verses psychological. There is a part of the brain called the hypothamalus. In heterosexual men this gland is larger than a heterosexual woman’s which is much smaller in size. Recent studies of autopsies performed on gays reveal the size of hypothamalus’ of homosexuals (both male and female) aren’t as large as a heterosexual male or as small as a heterosexual female.\n\nHomosexuality occurs naturally in most species of animals.\n\nForgoing the physical causes of homosexuality, socialization, environment and personal beliefs often have an influence on whether a person live a gay or straight life. For instance, a person who believes they may be gay might suppress those feelings if they are raised in an environment where homosexuality is considered taboo and self expression is censored. On the other hand, a person with homosexual tendencies may be more willing to explore those feelings if raised in an environment which encourages expression and self individualism.\n\nSince our sexuality doesn’t develop until long after birth, I don’t see how anyone can be born heterosexual or homosexual. \n\nSome uninformed individuals claim homosexuality is a choice. The question to those people would be, “Did you have to choose to be straight.” The answer will almost always be, “Hell no!” Just as a heterosexual could no more “choose” to be gay, a homosexual would have a difficult time choosing to be straight.\n\nAs for religious arguments, the passages in Genesis merely explain heterosexual relationships and does not condemn or even speak to homosexual acts. The only direct mention of homosexuality in the Bible can be found in the Old Testament under Leviticus along with the sins of wearing woven clothing (cotton), eating shell fish, shaving, and not allowing women to preach the word of God, amongst other forgotten sins. These sins were made non-sins by the words of Jesus. That is why good “Christians” can shave, while wearing their cotton briefs and eat oyster without having to worry about going to Hell.\n\nIn the New Testament, many newer interpretations claim that the rapists who came to Lot’s house were gay, but they were rapists, which rape is a sin. In another passage the words used to describe male prostitutes has been translated into “homosexuals” by watered down modern day Bibles. Prostitution is a sin, but at the time, there was no homosexual culture to condemn.\n\nThe most prolific argument against Biblical condemnation of homosexuals came from Jesus who was to be God’s final word on the subject. When given the opportunity to condemn homosexual behavior, He did not.\n\nWhen you see the word “homosexual’ in a Bible understand there was no word to describe homosexuality at the time of the writing of the Bible. Go to the King James Version and read the same passages. Those translations of those same words pertain only to male prostitution and rapists, which are both sins.\n\nLastly, many lost Christians say the Bible says intercourse is for the purpose of reproduction only and the only reason man was put on this earth was to reproduce. Well I can’t find one Christian who says they only have intercourse for the purpose of reproduction. As for the misnomer man was put on this earth for the sole purpose of reproduction, what about people who for one reason or another cannot reproduce? Are they all going to hell? If all of the world’s trees produced fruit, the fruit would lay rotting on the ground.
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It answers the problem of how do you become NOT GAY.\nif your gay but want to be a christian, then you have to not PRACTICE homosexuality.\ntheres a difference between liking your own\ngender and practicing homosexual sex.\n\nOne is a sin, the other is not...
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hi, i'm a muslim but i've read the bible, and i think u've pretty much answered your own question. but if the question behind that question is about how as someone who tries to be a good member of society should treat a homosexual, then that is an ethical question which requires deep reflections. the way i see it, is that although homosexuality is an unquestionable sin in the bible, and in my own religion too, but we still have the ethical responsibility to treat all homosexual as an equal and worthy of our respect. if their behavior seems unacceptable to you, that doesn't mean you can be uncivil and cruel to them. it is your responsibility to be a role model as someone who considers him/herself to be religious, which is to show compassion and kindness even to those whose actions and decisions are not in accordance to your values. i hope this helps.
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Why use 'gay' as a bad thing?  I'm not gay, but I have gay friends, and it upsets me that people always use the word gay to describe some bad or annoying...just stop.
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Most oppose it because they have firm belief that it is a sin against God.   It was not in Gods plan for a man or women to engage in homosexual acts.  Sex is a gift from God and it is meant to be an act between a man and a woman as shown from the story of Adam and Eve.   Etc....  In my opinion the church only believes homosexuality is a sin because it is a tradition.   It was a rule put in place when they needed their communities to copulate so that they had parishioners to support their community and church.   Homosexual behavior prevents the production of children.  I'm not defending the church but I can understand where it came from and it's in human nature to take things to the extreme when they really strongly believe it is against their God.  Some people will do anything for "their God".
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I've said this before and I'll say it again. \nThe term homosexuality is a label created by humans. Many species demonstrate variations in sexual behavior including attempts at mating with a same sex conspecific. Animal behavior researchers prefer not to refer to behaviors as "homosexual" it is not useful to the science of understanding animal behavior. \n\nYour page doesn't provide any new information. We already know a crazy amount of info about animal behavior including that same sex conspecifics engage in sexual behavior with one another. The empirical question for each individual species is why do they engage in this behavior? What are the developmental contengencies that lead to that behavior. \n\n\n\nYou want to really collect some info and learn about sexual behavior across species and see what people are doing now see my list below.
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The Catholic Church considers all homosexual activity to be sinful. It is not necessarily sinful to be a homosexual, because, one may have a homosexual orientation but not act on it. \n\nHowever, if one acts on their homosexual orientation (sexual thoughts about another woman, kissing another woman, pursuing a romantic relationship with another woman) it is consider sinful.\n\nLike with most sins, you will not be excommunicated from the Catholic Church, but it would prove to be an obstacle in receiving the sacraments, such as Communion. In order to receive Communion, you must confess your sins. And in order to make a confession, you must truly be sorry for your sin and have a genuine intention of not committing the sin. Therefore, it would be hard to make the confession in order to receive Communion.\n\nHowever, there are many gays and lesbians who still consider themselves Catholic despite their homosexual relationships. Just like there are a lot of heterosexual people who live with their significant others and are not married and still participate in all the sacraments. As with all things Catholic, finding a good priest to talk to can be very helpful.
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Is a man not innocent till proven guilty here. He has admitted to wrong doing but denies homosexuality. Why do so many act as if its true when there is no proof as yet?