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View Poll Results: Is being gay a choice? | |||
Yes | 5 | 13.89% | |
No | 24 | 66.67% | |
Undecided | 7 | 19.44% | |
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02-27-2008, 03:40 AM | #1 |
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Do you believe being gay is a choice
If so, why would someone choose to be gay?
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02-27-2008, 03:44 AM | #2 |
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Stupid poll.
Homosexuality seems to be a spectrum combing environmental factors and occasionally aspects of personal choice. Such a wonderfully binary approach in a base 12 world.
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02-27-2008, 04:15 AM | #3 |
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This is a cop out. It's not hard, Archea. Let me ask it this way. Did you choose to be heterosexual?
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02-27-2008, 04:22 AM | #4 |
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Arch is right and it is hard. Let me ask you SU, do you believe EVERY person that lives a gay lifestyle is compelled without choice to do so?
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02-27-2008, 04:26 AM | #6 |
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True, which only makes the point Arch is making.
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02-27-2008, 04:38 AM | #7 |
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From my point of view, it directly contradicts his point. since those factors occur on both sides, there's no point in emphasizing it only on one side and therefore declaring that the question is pointless. To me, this question is perfectly valid.
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02-27-2008, 04:47 AM | #8 |
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Archaea isn't making any point. He's taking the Fifth. What he wrote is incoherent.
Come one. Get out of your skin. Try to imagine a time in your youth when you were neutral in terms of sexual preference. The choice confronted you, and you chose heterosexual (or vice versa). Like you decided to major in English or History or Engineering in college. Two questions: 1) Can you possibly imagine such a thing? 2) Why would someone confronted with such a choice (remember, in theory such a person is completely sexually preference neutral) choose to make their life so much more difficult when the crystal clear path of least resistance is being heterosexual? Have you ever known a gay person who didn't have to overcome a lot of negative reaction, even hatred from family and friends, not to mention potential emploers, etc.? The very existence of this anti-gay Constitutional amendment illustrates the premise for my second question.
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02-27-2008, 04:52 AM | #10 |
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I'm not talking about bisexuals. You're needlessly complicating it. I'm talking about gays. But okay, have it your way. For that matter, did bisexuals choose to be such?
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