Being gay, lesbian, transgender

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Catholic adoption agencies closed because the State was trying to force them to go against their beliefs.
 
Would the Church’s teachings change if it was proven that homosexuality is genetic?
 
I think it is a choice based on previous events. I think if you experience certain things in your life. This ultimately leads to a lifestyle sin. In which either the sinner embraces the sin or feels there is no way to escape the sin. There are also a small minority of men and women who escape the sin. Anyways I agree its a choice that becomes a addiction.
 
Because God supposedly doesn’t cause bad things to happen. He couldn’t intentionally cause someone to have autism, for example, but he could have let it happen passively. Like allowing genetics to do its thing.

That verse seems as if he was talking about souls rather than bodies.

If he intentionally gave us these things, where is the line drawn? What about fetal abnormalities, those children that die of cancer/other crap? People who are born disabled etc. He can’t be all good if he intentionally gives these people disabilities.
 
No, because marriage is more or less defined by their ability to have sex. Impotent straight people can’t marry because it’s physically impossible to have sex and hence they can’t be open to life, according to what I’m seeing here.
 
We all have our crosses to bear in life - we all have our “handicaps” per se to overcome. I was born into a family that had a lot of anger & abuse issues. I, therefore, must be vigilant & fight against this constantly - along with depression, anxiety, & whatever else that abusive environment did in my life. To allow it to reign in my life would be sin.
 
Sean said:
I think it is a choice based on previous events. I think if you experience certain things in your life. This ultimately leads to a lifestyle sin. In which either the sinner embraces the sin or feels there is no way to escape the sin. There are also a small minority of men and women who escape the sin. Anyways I agree its a choice that becomes a addiction.
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Since most gay men first start to realize that they’re gay when they’re about 11 or 12, what choices did they make when they were children that made them gay?
 
Not true. Most gay men and women I have spoken to chose during early adulthood with a couple choosing when they are 14 or 15.
 
Sedona said:
Well, what you are saying is here entirely different thing from what you originally said you see. You had said that being gay or transgender is a choice and the example you gave was of a woman who made a choice as to her actions, not a choice with regard to what her sexual proclivities were
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It is a choice and I stand by that, my example was of not gay people choosing to be together which causes life problems as was said that homosexuality must be okay or people wouldn’t choose to risk their lives for it.
 
If you are a Christian of any kind it appears many times in the Bible that it is a grave sin and never as justified.

I choose whether to commit adultery or not.
 
Nelka said:
Not true. Most gay men and women I have spoken to chose during early adulthood with a couple choosing when they are 14 or 15.
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How old are most people when they know they like someone of the opposite sex? I was about 5 or 6 when I realized I liked boys. Children with homosexual leanings know, often times from that very young age as well, what they like. I don’t know of any homosexual who “chose” to be gay at 14 or 15. And I know a lot of homosexuals.

Now if what you are claiming is that many homosexuals are young adults before they choose to engage in a homosexual relationship, then you are correct… No different than many heterosexual young people. While I was 5 or 6 when I had a crush on a little boy in my first grade class, I certainly didn’t have an intimate relationship with him.

Being homosexual is not the same thing as engaging in a homosexual relationship. It is important to make that distinction when discussing this issue.
 
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Okay, so If god created us … why is it a sin to be gay etc? If god made us did he not decide that we be this way. Being gay, lesbian etc isn’t a choice it’s how your born. So why is it a sin to have a relationship with the same sex if it was god who created us all to be individual and different?
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People are not born gay. There is no gay gene. People become gay through one or more of upbringing, environment and choice.
 
QwertyGirl said:
Scientificallly speaking, the surface of human genetic understanding and discovery has barely been scratched. I hope you realize that.
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As of now there is zero evidence that anyone is born gay but for the sake of argument let’s say they can be. It is then up to the individual to make the choice of living as God wants them to live or rejecting God’s love and turning to sin by engaging in homosexuality.
 
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