How do you feel about homosexuality?
398157
Not my cup of tea, but they should have the right to live their lives in peace and happiness.\n\nIt's definitely natural (i.e. occurs in nature), as homosexual animals have been observed.  Biologically it's an issue of brain developement, not choice.  Brains are very complex organs and its development heavily depends on a number of hormones and other chemicals.  It's not surprising that a minority of the population has inverted gender attraction.\n\nI suspect that since humans are very social animals, we have reduced evolutionary pressure against homosexuality.\n\nFor example, spiders lead very solitary lives.  If a spider is homosexual, it has no way to improve the reproduction of its genes.\n\nHumans are quite different.  Since we live in complex societies, a homosexual individual can still assist in reproduction of its genes by assisting the reproduction of close relatives.  This reduces the reproductive cost of being gay.  It's my opinion that the more social a species is, the higher proportion of it's individuals will be homosexual.\n\nSince someone else being gay has no bearing on my happiness or my marriage I would let them marry just as I do.  I figure thare are just as disgusted thinking about straight sex as I would be thinking about gay sex.
798500
Why would anyone choose a difficult life?  Especially when it would be so easy according to straight people to "choose to be straight."  If so, I have a question for them.  Why don't they CHOOSE TO BE GAY?  See all those emotions running through you straights right now?  That's how we feel.  We feel "how can we change, if we could, wouldn't we?  Same as straights who are asked to think gay."  They find it incomprehensible to think about men, as I do about women.  Its just not normal for me, sorry, does that sound like a choice or something I'm stuck with?  I cannot remember feeling anything other way from the age of 5 on up.  The men were always attractive the women were always the nice ones.  So, while it may be a choice for some, it was not for me.  The very idea that I could have CHOSE this life is laughable.
575122
I'm gay and I'm not offended by the word itself. When it is used as a descriptive term for my sexual predisposition I am not bothered by it. When it is used as a derogatory insult then I am bothered, but I also consider that the person using it that way is an uninformed individual who probably has some serious insecurities concerning his/her own sexuality. I feel sorry those people and their sexual partners. \n\nSincerely,\nTerry
1159772
bi\n\n\n\ni have found a girl attractive & visualized myself having sex with her but it seems like u have REAL feelings for her especially since ur thinking about her day & night.\n\n\nand if u stop having feelings for men, then ur gay.
114221
As a gay person I can honestly say that I don't know. It just is the way I feel naturaly. Like being streight is natural for you. We don't ask to be this way and life would be much easier for us if we had a choice but we don't it is just our nature
270408
Don't be gay. Jesus Doesn't approve. Hide your true feelings forever and live miserably. \n\nThink about it, it makes sense.\n\nI'm a doctor.
1121576
The Bible is clearly against homosexuality.  If you are gay, I recommend not believing in the Bible.
385270
I personally believe that it is a combination of genetics and environment.  It is never a "choice"...  Some people are predisposed to being attracted to the same sex by genetics, and other people are predisposed only under certain conditions.  There are also people that no matter what happens to them in their life they will never ever be gay.  Being gay is what arouses a person.  For me personally, a man does nothing for me... but a woman I find very arousing.  Its just the way I am, and no matter how I try to imagine myself with a man, it just does not work.  It feels very wrong and uncomfortable.  It does not feel natural.  A woman feels very natural, as Im sure it feels to a straight man.  I am a follower of God, and I believe that as long as we love, we are good.  Hate is what opposes the Lord, not love, no matter what form... whether I love my dog, my child, or my girlfriend, its still love, and only good can come from love.  Hate, ignorance, deception and misunderstanding are not good, therefore they are not following the Lord's path.  \n\nThere are gay animals by the way.. have you ever heard of the Bonobo Chimpanzees?  Look them up and their sexual behavior... you will find they are the most sexually free of any species on the planet, it doesnt matter if you are male or female.
221684
I'M NOT GOOD AT THIS BUT I WILL TRY TO HELP YOU OUT...WHEN YOU'RE IN A RELATIONSHIP (if you are) WITH A GAY, HOW DO YOU FEEL?ARE YOU HAPPY?CONTENTED?SECURE?YOU NEED TO WEIGHT THINGS OUT, HOW HIGH IS YOU LEVEL OF HAPPINESS. \nand when you are in a realatonship with a opposite sex, how do you score yourself when it comes to commitment, happiness, security etc.\nIf you feel you are more comfortable with living with the opposite sex then by all means convince yourself to divert your attention to the opposite sex. \nall you need to do is to assess yourself what you really like, what makes you happy...the important thing here to consider is HAPPINESS- YOUR OWN HAPPINESS.If you think you're more happy to be with a gay (anyway, some gays do share deep feelings not just sex- just find the person) then go for it, If you think you're more happy to share your life with the opposite sex (other women too just want sex,sex and sex again) then open your eyes and your heart and start looking.\nGood luck...I hope I helped you in a little way.
1099323
I cannot tell a handsome man from one that isn't. I feel rejection to the very idea of me with another man (which does not mean I feel rejection to those men who do have sex with other men, just to the idea of me in that situation). I have never fallen in love with a man or boy. And I am never aroused with men. Plus, I have an education which I'm sure would not make me repress it, if I were gay. So, I guess I am physically unable to feel any homosexual drive, which is a bad thing, since it would double my chances if I weren't so picky, and looking always for women.
778783
hey bro,\n\naww man i feel your pain... your story kinda reminds me of some things ive been going though.. i used to be gay, and struggled with same sex attraction for years.  But yeah anyway long story short, God delivered me, after I accepted Jesus in my heart, and He took the same sex attraction away, so that was about a year and a half ago, and ive been straight since then and will be straight for good :)\n\nanyway yeah i know what it feels like to feel rejected sometimes... but hey just keep seeking God, and He will lead you to the ONE for you! I mean think about it, why waste your time on girls that dont like you , where there is that one waiting for ya.\n\nanyway i hope that helps, stay straight man, thats my best advice. Liking guys isnt good, and its not all its cracked up to be in the end,.\n\nGod bless
474638
Well I am Christian and also bisexual, I dont hate gays straights bis or whatever. I do believe the Bible shows homosexuality as a sin but I also realise there are 613 other sins and no one can live sinlessly. So, I just get on day by day, dont let either ruin my life or the lives of others.
1063006
Yep.\n\nPoor lost fools. I really feel sorry for them as they wander through life letting their prejudices control their mind.
146891
I would feel completely depleated, depressed, utterly unwanted. Over all, it wouldn't be a great feeling. If you consider homosexual people and homophobics, you can see an example of that, how some people shun them from society. If I myself were shunned from society, I believe my behavior would include depression and thoughts of suicide... yes, that far, because I myself am a very social person.
719038
Your still gay. You are just expermenting some bi feelings and there is nothing wrong with that. I think it happends to a lot of gay people. They just don't like to admit this kind of thing. I know I have been there. It seems like other gays don't want to hear it and the same with the opposit sex. Im jost letting you know it normal to have feeling like that. Your still gay and thats ok..
126503
I am gay. I was a good little Christian boy, that didn't even know that boys could be attracted to other boys when I began to have feelings for them. The farther I got into puberty the clearer it became that I had an attraction to males and felt nothing for females. It was the worst thing I can imagine ever going through. I hated myself because I thought God was going to hate me for the way I was feeling. For years I would cry myself to sleep after begging Jesus to help me change. I would have done anything to change. I just got more and more depressed and started to think about suicide all the time. All day every day I would worry about how I acted, because I didn't want to do something that might seem "gay". I convinced myself that I was just going through a phase, because despite my feelings, I didn't think I could possibly be one of those fags that everyone seemed to hate so much. Then when I was 16 and just didn't think I could go on living with the pain , fear and sadness anymore i had a realization that saved my life. I realized that if God knows every thing and he knows what's in my thoughts and in my heart then he knows I didn't choose this, and he has known how sincerely I wanted to be "normal". He knows that to me this felt normal. He is the one I have to answer to and no one else, and I don't have to worry that he will think I brought this on myself. \nI cant think of a single reason why a person would decide to be gay. Our society makes it so hard to be accepted and to live a normal life, that for it to be a choice makes no sense at all. I don't know if its genetic, or something that happens during development, or what exactly is the cause, but if there is anything I know it's that certainly for me, and the great majority of gay people in the world, IT IS NOT A CHOICE AND CANNOT BE CHANGED!\n\nTime and time and time again I hear these self proclaimed "Good Christians" preach about sin, and turning to Jesus to repent, and quoting from Leviticus, insisting that it's a choice, and it just sickens and infuriates me. \nHave you read Leviticus? The whole thing I mean. Not just the part about men lying with men, but the pages and pages about animal sacrifices, the parts about what clothes to wear, and what foods to eat, and everything else. No Christian lives by Leviticus anymore, but when it serves their purpose they will pick out parts to impose on others to live by. If homosexuality is such an unacceptable thing, such an abomination, then why is there nothing in the Bible about the subject that comes from Jesus himself? If all sins are equal in the eyes of God, and we're all sinners, then why is the sin of homosexuality so much MORE equal to "loving" Christians today?\nPeople may as well accept that we cannot change, we will not change. Just worry about yourselves,and let us worry about the fate of our own souls.
1175866
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