A few days ago a co-worker and I were having a discussions about homosexuality. Now I personally have no life experience of being gay but I do however have my opinions on it. My co-worker and I both know individuals who we either know or think are gay, but the reasons behind it we did not agreed upon.
She believed that gay people had a choice on whether or not they are gay. I listened to her argument but frankly I didn't think it was completely right. I listened to how she told me they could be cured through prayer, that they had to want not to be gay and go to god to stop that life style. It was in her opinion that it was a spirit causing them to be gay, that it was a temptation like everything else and they had to refuse it.
I however do not think that homosexuality is choice for all people. I think for some like people that up and decide one day, "oh I'm gay" and blame it on a negative relationship that yes that is a choice. However, how can you deny that some people are born that way when there are people that commit suicide because others tell them that the feelings they have and the people they love are not right.
If being homosexual is such a choice why wouldn't someone just choose to be heterosexual. Who would chose to be viewed with prejudice, to endure unnecessary pain, or have limited rights in the eye of the law, no person would.
In my opinion it shouldn't matter who a person loves as long as they love. Who are we as people to tell someone who is OK or not OK to love. The answer is we are no one. The choice to be gay for some is a choice and for others its just as much a choice to be heterosexual.. One day you just know who your attracted to. No one should be faulted for that.
Love is love and no one should be judged for it.
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I agree with you, I don't think this is a choice? Why would someone chose a life a ridicule and alienation? I'm not an atheist, I have my own opinions on GOD, but I don't think God has anything to do with it either. I think that is just people suppressing who and what they are, but are not "cured" as your coworker says.
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Such a controversial issue.. good to see someone with an open mind about it.
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