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Originally Posted by Love
I don’t get it. Why are you guys so fixated on people’s sexual orientation when you should be worried about your lives passing by? Why do people isolate each other’s differences such as the color of their skin, their race, or love interest? Like what business do you have with that?
If being gay is a choice, then why can’t Ohio suck and kiss awareness all over?
The notion that just because a person has a choice whether to engage in gay sex and some made that choice, therefore homosexuality is a choice is just frankly a ridiculous conclusion that’s not backed by anything.
It’s not exactly false that same sex behavior is in cases a choice, but first, we must make the distinction between same sex behavior and same-sex attraction.
Even if sexual behavior is purely a choice, sexual orientation, which is the state of being gay and the impulses that they feel are certainly not choices, for the simple reason that we only choose to act and our actions are influenced by our own desires. Hence, sexual desire for one type of person is not chosen, but sexual behavior is.
And this is a viewpoint held by both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychiatric Association.
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The distinction between desire/attraction and actions is one I've made over and over on these two threads. I agree with you that it is ridiculous to conclude that just because homosexual sex is a choice, then homosexual attractions are also a choice. I am heterosexual and have attractions all day long, but don't jump into the actions. Attractions and actions are different things.
I totally agree that sexual desire for one type of person is not chosen, but sexual behavior is.