Question about homosexuality since everyone gets so worked up...?
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You will probably get a lot of comments about how homosexuality is not a choice.  However, the question is not at all hypothetical.  The ancient Greeks faced this problem.\n\nIn the ancient Greek system boys were taken from their families at the age of seven and put in a boarding school.  Homosexual love was a recognized custom.  Each boy had an adult male lover who wooed the boy with gifts, poetry, protection, and training.  They played together naked.  Because it was considered the accepted thing to do, virtually all the men practiced homosexual behavior, and thought it normal and expected.  They choose to be gay, if you will, but it was more peer pressure than free choice.\n\nSo, what happened to reproduction?  That was indeed a problem.  Men did not want to take upon themselves the responsibility of having a wife.  They did not want to do their duty to their nation state by getting her pregnant.  So the government was forced to give special tax breaks and status to those who had children.  A man was not thought ill of if he allowed another man to give him children through his wife.  It was still hard to keep up the birth rate, and this may have had a lot to do with the eventual collapse of the Greek culture.\n\nThere are many more corrupting influences of homosexual behavior than merely the threat to the continuation of the human race.
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Society has embedded everyone into thinking there is "right" and "wrong".  You can choose to change your sexual orientation because people make you feel like that is the way to be valued as a person.  But, you won't.  You will mess everything thing up in your natural, God given, mind.  It's totally a.ss backwards to put yourself through such enduring psychological trauma.  Also, this supposed "HELL" everyone is telling youth about is an invention made by man.  The hell you will experience is here on earth if you let biggoted people who claim to be "Christian" tell you that what you are feeling is "wrong" and that will ultimatley make you angry at God.  When you deny something it will stare at you every single day of your life.  When you accept who you trully are, you can move on.  After all, that is ultimatley what evolving is.  Good Tidings
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I wish I could give you a straight answer.  I am like you, I love meeting new people of all races, ethnicities, genders, I like everyone.  Society is too closed minded.  Saying homosexuality is a sin so we should hate gays is ludacris.  If Christians hate gays because they sin then shouldn't they hate alcoholics, rapists, murderers, all other religions, democrates, just the same?  Shouldn't they put forth just as much anger and protest against these groups as well? People who hate homosexuals have ill logic.  We as open minded people need to set the standard and put morons in their place.
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It's bullshxt. I totally agree. Who are straight people to say what gays can and cannot do? Are we not people? This country is TOO fxcked up.
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the bigger question is ...\nwho hurts homosexuals ?\n\nwhy does anyone feel that they can be hurtful to others simply because they dont understand them
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I thought your reply to her was great! I know it can be frustrating when you see such intolerance towards gays, but violence is not the answer. Such people really missed the, "Judge not, or you too will be judged" lesson in Sunday school. (That's Matthew 7:1, the NIV translation.) About pride: Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall. --Proverbs 16:18\n\nSuch people are like mosquitoes--bothersome and they will feed off you if you let them. Just put on your bug spray and you'll be fine. ; )
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Why is that such a small percentage of the population can cause so much grief. Most of the people in this country still see homosexuality for what it is morally wrong. If they must be together I am not even going to attempt to stop them. Neither will I ever embrace their cause,and this is what really irks me that the homosexual community and their supporters insist that I do so or then I must be a homophobe. The lifestyle in my view is no different than an addiction to drugs or alcohol or any other aberrant behavior. "I often hear live and let live" FINE don't try to force me into accepting what I cannot and will not.
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SHEESH!! LOL!  People will be people. It's just like people get worked up over religious issues or abortion issues or politics, it's crazy. When people don't like something they want the whole world to know just as people do who do like something. You are always going have problems and you notice it is not the majority it is the few and it is always the few that go around giving people a hard time. \n\nI don't agree with homosexuality, but to each his own. Let it go, but not everyone thinks that way. People would rather start world war three or heated arguments then stifle themselves and mind their own business. It's just the bitter part of human nature.
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Look, all those "christians" are full of $hit because when I went to sunday school, I was taught that Jesus died for your sins.  That means that, should homosexuality be a sin, it is forgiven.  Also guess what, i'm gay and taken communion and also been baptized and through confirmation (lutheran).  That being said, some people will believe what the media will tell them.  That means that if the president constantly spams anti-gay propaganda on the news and in his addresses, then most of the public will agree... sorry to say but at least 20% of Americans have to be told what to think.  In the 90's how many people did you see actively voicing their opposition against homosexuality, aside from places like tennessee, and extreme rural closeminded "everyone knows everyone else so you best be on yo' best behavior" type communities?  Some people just aren't open to change, and others just like to make sure that they are happier than others, while there are those that like to MAKE DA.MN SURE that no one can be happier than they.  Then there are those unfortunate people that were brought up in those unhealthy prejudice households.  Those are also the people that are still stuck in the 60's in the black rights movement... Please... we've gotten past that.  You just have to realize that this is the civil rights movement of our time and that the gays will prevail, just because that's how America is.  Some of you won't like that comment, but just wait until you're much older... say thirty years from now and read about it in the history textbooks.  Other than that, I still love the people that hate me for being gay, and if I were to come across them when they were involved in a car accident I would still call 911 for them and offer any assistance that I could... I'm just nice like that.  I'll quit now before i get myself all worked up over the subject.
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Many people associate homosexuality as something negative, thus they use the word "gay" as a general perjorative. Anything they dislike gets called "gay" not because it's homosexual, but because it's bad.\n\nThat's a very immature way of speaking, but it's out there.
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I disagree with all of those lamers. I don't agree with homosexuality. However, I would never be mean nor judge them. I have my reasons, and that's all I am going to say about that! Thanks for allowing me the chance to express that.
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for every ones information that doesn't think that this question doesn't fit this category, well sorry it does because this world is turning into another Sodom and Gomorrah look at all of these homosexual people coming out of the closet ( now i don't have anything against gay people i love everyone in there own way i just don't like their ways hey i have ways about myself i don like) but anyway to answer your question i think that he might have gave them another chance but i personally think that they would have screwed up again look at the people in the world now and how we are screwing up our lives.\n\n\nadded text:\n\ni was not trying to offend people it is justthat everyone is upset he asked this question in this section maybe he didn't  know that he asked this question inthis section but look at it like this it could be a sign to why it ended up in this section so peeps chill out dont get all serious with it
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Well I am sorry it makes you sick.  Not everything or every one is the way we all would like.  Some what disappointing I know.  As for WHY would someone like to be gay? I will tell you something.  I am happy with my lifestyle now. I am happy with the woman I am with.  But there was a period where I wasn't so sure.  Why you wonder.  Because my mother disowned me because of it.  My father bought books to see if they had the answers, maybe he did something wrong.  Or my personal favorite what my high school finding out and my teacher telling me I shouldn't eat with the other kids because it bothers them. \nDoes this sound like something we CHOSE?  Does this sound like something we ASKED for?  \nWe are stronger for the things we go through, doesnt mean we ask for the turmoil along the way.
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Some people place an inordinate focus on a handful of passages from the Bible (which, as far as literature goes, is terribly overrated) that condemn homosexual behavior as an "abomination."\n\nBecause the Bible is full of contradictory nonsense, what people often do is they pick and choose which parts they will listen to. Like the part about stoning one's children to death if they talk back to you - no one really pays attention to that, or to the passage about how eating shrimp and lobster is an abomination. That would just be too inconvenient.\n\nSo when people already don't like gay people - which is what they pick up from this wonderfully homophobic culture of ours - all they have to do is flip open the Bible and find the passage in Leviticus that agrees with them, and then they can feel perfectly justified in their bigotry. Indeed, they often begin to force this hatred upon others, such as with that awful Fred Phelps and his grotesque little cult in Kansas.\n\nHere's the thing, though: if people do not choose to be gay, but in fact are born that way, what would that say about God? And what would that say about the Bible?\n\nReligious people will either plug their ears or run fleeing from anything that threatens their dearly-head beliefs. It's how they organize their entire thought process about the world and the other people in it, after all. So there is no way they could ever acknowledge that the Bible is mistaken, because God doesn't make mistakes. And if being gay is a mistake, then it must be because people choose to be that way.\n\nBut I look at it like this: those who take the Bible as the inerrant and literal word of God are choosing to be ignorant. Which is also why they continue to think the Earth is only 6,000 years old, was created in six days, and Adam rode a pterodactyl to work.\n\nGive me gay over stupid any day. Cheers!
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My advice to you is don't listen to the Christians. They use the "unnatural" and "abomination" arguments so much they've lost all meaning. Homosexuality is not a sin. I, like you, know good people who happen to be gay. And to address your confusion with the logic behind the persecution, there is no logic.
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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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As a christian, I have a distaste for homosexuality, but that does not mean that I should hate you. Jesus loves everyone, even those who do not follow in his path. I don't take homophobia as a bad thing, in a society the majority will naturally be heterosexual, making homosexuality a deviancy. It's just natural for a civilization to be wary of that.\nBut going back to your beliefs that the christians "hide" behind the bible, we don't. The bible defines our beliefs and therefore we must follow them to the best of our abilities. That includes disapproval of homosexuality. I'm sorry that you've been burdoned with this, just know that Jesus' love really is unconditional.