Why do you refute a charge that you are "homophobe?"

[Eden]

I just wanted to respond about the popular assertion these days that homosexuality is genetic. When you look at other issues of the mind: intelligence, talent, addiction, mental illness, scientists and physicians can not come to definitive conclusions about how much of these mental tendencies are nature and how much are nurture. Yet, many homosexuals will adamantly insist that their orientation is entirely genetic. I think we would all agree that someone who has a tendency for addiction likely has both a genetic predisposition for addiction and a childhood history that contributed to the child growing into an adult adict. I don’t find it an honest argument for homosexuals to insist that they were “born that way”, as though their life experiences had no effect. Just as Mozart would not have become a musical genius if he had not been exposed to music at the critical age of development, I don’t believe a person becomes homosexual without having the environmental factors which trigger homosexuality at the critical ages of sexual development.

But what is more important, whether SSA is genetic or environmental or a mix of both, acting out on the attraction is immoral according to Church teaching. I don’t see how anyone could expect that fact to change.

 

[Riley259]

I just wanted to respond about the popular assertion these days that homosexuality is genetic. When you look at other issues of the mind: intelligence, talent, addiction, mental illness, scientists and physicians can not come to definitive conclusions about how much of these mental tendencies are nature and how much are nurture. Yet, many homosexuals will adamantly insist that their orientation is entirely genetic. I think we would all agree that someone who has a tendency for addiction likely has both a genetic predisposition for addiction and a childhood history that contributed to the child growing into an adult adict. I don’t find it an honest argument for homosexuals to insist that they were “born that way”, as though their life experiences had no effect. Just as Mozart would not have become a musical genius if he had not been exposed to music at the critical age of development, I don’t believe a person becomes homosexual without having the environmental factors which trigger homosexuality at the critical ages of sexual development.

But what is more important, whether SSA is genetic or environmental or a mix of both, acting out on the attraction is immoral according to Church teaching. I don’t see how anyone could expect that fact to change.

I agree and feel the same way.

 

[JohnWilliams]

I just wanted to respond about the popular assertion these days that homosexuality is genetic. When you look at other issues of the mind: intelligence, talent, addiction, mental illness, scientists and physicians can not come to definitive conclusions about how much of these mental tendencies are nature and how much are nurture. Yet, many homosexuals will adamantly insist that their orientation is entirely genetic. I think we would all agree that someone who has a tendency for addiction likely has both a genetic predisposition for addiction and a childhood history that contributed to the child growing into an adult adict. I don’t find it an honest argument for homosexuals to insist that they were “born that way”, as though their life experiences had no effect. Just as Mozart would not have become a musical genius if he had not been exposed to music at the critical age of development, I don’t believe a person becomes homosexual without having the environmental factors which trigger homosexuality at the critical ages of sexual development.

But what is more important, whether SSA is genetic or environmental or a mix of both, acting out on the attraction is immoral according to Church teaching. I don’t see how anyone could expect that fact to change.

I think with a rehabilitation rate of from 30 to 50% your point is pretty well demonstrated. I am confident there is no shortage of folks in the scientific community that have been searching for a genetic link, but still to no avail. Ever were there one, scripture makes it clear that a person shouldn’t give in to that tendency. Folks are born without fingers that have to get along the best they can too.