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SSM (Same-sex marriage) is wrong because?

Same-sex marriage is wrong because

  • It will set a bad example for Christian youth

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You don't know anything when you're born, except when you are physically uncomfortable. But I don't ever recall being taught that I was straight, and that I should be attracted to the opposite sex. I wasn't taught to play with girl toys, nor was I taught how to feminine, how to be masculine, or neutral...

Not that I WANT to ;) but to be fair to blackdog I dont htink he is claiming its a choice he is saying that he believes that there are many factors that make that choice for you. Though I could be wrong he'll have to clear it up.

But I do agree with you, every gay person I know said its not a choice.
 
You don't know anything when you're born, except when you are physically uncomfortable. But I don't ever recall being taught that I was straight, and that I should be attracted to the opposite sex. I wasn't taught to play with girl toys, nor was I taught how to feminine, how to be masculine, or neutral...

Everyone is different. This has nothing to do with knowing you were gay from the beginning. That is impossible. Most kids are not interested in anything sexual till after 10.

I am sorry if modern science after searching for what? almost 30 years now has found nothing to support it.
 
Thanks, I just know that that's one of the "Oh, I get it! She hates men because her old man bleeped her!" Not so much, no.
 
It has everything to do with "knowing they have been gay" so you can remember being gay at 3???? Please. A study was posted recently that children raised in a lesbian household was more likely to be gay. What does this tell you?

How did their parents (if raised in a straight household) become gay to begin with... How did people first start becoming gay and why? You can't argue that everybody was taught or learned it from somewhere.
 
Everyone is different. This has nothing to do with knowing you were gay from the beginning. That is impossible. Most kids are not interested in anything sexual till after 10.

I am sorry if modern science after searching for what? almost 30 years now has found nothing to support it.

Wow, you really are clueless on the human sexuality front. You probably shouldn't post again until you've done a bit of studying.
 
Not that I WANT to ;) but to be fair to blackdog I dont htink he is claiming its a choice he is saying that he believes that there are many factors that make that choice for you. Though I could be wrong he'll have to clear it up.

But I do agree with you, every gay person I know said its not a choice.

You are correct. Also every gay person I know where that has come up has said the same thing. Yet I know some of them later switched back to heterosexual dating and even marriage later on.

Don't know what to tell you accept I saw this with my own eyes.
 
Wow, you really are clueless on the human sexuality front. You probably shouldn't post again until you've done a bit of studying.

I don't see you posting any evidence of anything yet?
 
Everyone is different. This has nothing to do with knowing you were gay from the beginning. That is impossible. Most kids are not interested in anything sexual till after 10.

I am sorry if modern science after searching for what? almost 30 years now has found nothing to support it.

They haven't found a gene for autism either...
 
How did their parents (if raised in a straight household) become gay to begin with... How did people first start becoming gay and why? You can't argue that everybody was taught or learned it from somewhere.

Don't know. I can only go by what is in front of me and what the statistics and reports from scientists say.

I am not a biologist, doctor or anything else even close. I suspect most here aren't either.
 
It has everything to do with "knowing they have been gay" so you can remember being gay at 3???? Please. A study was posted recently that children raised in a lesbian household was more likely to be gay. What does this tell you?

Nothing since CC has posted about 10 that say otherwise.
And how everynow and then theres a gay man in a family of football stars and this gay man is a 6'4" linebacker who breaks bones but, well, he is gay
etc etc

I think a study like that could be skewed because unless it followed them for a life time and straights for a life time and included lie detectors. I think common sense will tell you those that come from gay families are more likely to COME OUT since they will be accepted while those that come from staight families sometimes take their secret to their grave due to fear of discrimination. :) Just saying
 
And another thing. I KNOW every single last one of you has seen someone who was quite obviously "one of these kids is not like the others". I know you have. I went to a small high school in Minnesota in the '70's, and we had one. His name was Paul and from head to toe and in every way, he was obviously gay. There was another named Pete. Nobody knew he was until after he'd committed suicide.

I know you refuse to let your mind go there. I've asked time and again, and you've refused unequivocally every single time. But I would so appreciate it if you could find your way outside your comfort zone, and consider what it would be like to know that there is something very, very different about you, and it's possible you will lose all your friends if you're honest about who you are.

Willful ignorance isn't pretty.
 
You are correct. Also every gay person I know where that has come up has said the same thing. Yet I know some of them later switched back to heterosexual dating and even marriage later on.

Don't know what to tell you accept I saw this with my own eyes.

SO they were actually bi but confused because of society and the overwhelming pressuer of reality?
seems pretty normal to me.
 
Nothing since CC has posted about 10 that say otherwise.

Actually if you ask him he will say that is not true. I showed him the study and allot of us debated at length about it. Like anything else it had advantages and that was (what some consider) a disadvantage.

And how everynow and then theres a gay man in a family of football stars and this gay man is a 6'4" linebacker who breaks bones but, well, he is gay
etc etc

Has nothing to do with the study. I already said I don't know why, but it happens.

I think a study like that could be skewed because unless it followed them for a life time and straights for a life time and included lie detectors. I think common sense will tell you those that come from gay families are more likely to COME OUT since they will be accepted while those that come from staight families sometimes take their secret to their grave due to fear of discrimination. :) Just saying

It's not skewed as we went over that as well. It came from the American Psychiatric site I believe but it has been a while.

I agree with the "come out" statement, but it was from a non biased and reputable source. SO draw your own conclusions.
 
Everyone is different. This has nothing to do with knowing you were gay from the beginning. That is impossible. Most kids are not interested in anything sexual till after 10.

I am sorry if modern science after searching for what? almost 30 years now has found nothing to support it.

Wow, you really are clueless on the human sexuality front. You probably shouldn't post again until you've done a bit of studying.

I don't see you posting any evidence of anything yet?

Sexual Development through the Life Cycle
 
SO they were actually bi but confused because of society and the overwhelming pressuer of reality?
seems pretty normal to me.

So now you are deciding they must have been bi? Maybe, maybe not. In fact a few are guilty of saying they were always gay. This was not isolated.
 
So now you are deciding they must have been bi? Maybe, maybe not. In fact a few are guilty of saying they were always gay. This was not isolated.

I'm sorry, where does guilt enter into this.
 
I'm sorry, where does guilt enter into this.

Try reading the thread, and look at what I am saying instead of assuming incorrectly. Context is so important.
 
So now you are deciding they must have been bi? Maybe, maybe not. In fact a few are guilty of saying they were always gay. This was not isolated.

No just saying that probably a likely possibility.
this is new for me because as I admitted in the past I wasn't exactly gay friendly but my brother always was, he had two girlfriends with gay brothers and one of his best friend is a lesbian so he knows tons. Ive only interacted with them in my later years and id say about 90% of them dated or had sex with the opposite sex because of fear, society thinking they could "fix it" etc.

Some of them have bounced back and fourth also, also admittedly because of the same and then some realized they are simply bi.

Again just saying its commonly not isolated for them to try and figure it out because of the pressure and fear.
 
Everyone is different. This has nothing to do with knowing you were gay from the beginning. That is impossible. Most kids are not interested in anything sexual till after 10.

I am sorry if modern science after searching for what? almost 30 years now has found nothing to support it.


some scientific evidence of homosexuality being biological:[FONT=&quot].

Biological theorists have found substantial instances of anatomical, genetic, and endocrine evidence to support their argument. Experiments in biological research date back as far as the late 1930's, beginning with the pioneering research of Alfred Kinsey (for the University of Indiana) on human sexuality. Kinsey had two goals for his tests: 1) to find out how many adult males engaged in homosexual behavior, and 2) to suggest theories about it came to be [9]. When asked if they had engaged in homosexual sexual relations, a large percent of the population tested answered "no", however when asked if they had engaged in same-sex sexual relations, the percentage answering "yes" nearly doubled. The experiment yielded that 30% of males had experienced at least orgasm in a homosexual act. <snip>[7]. While establishing that as many as 10% of adult males reported having sexual relations with a same-sex partner, this research did little more than to put the word homosexual into common language.
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[FONT=&quot]Karen Hooker executed the first psychological test done to test for biological determinism in 1957, on a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health [2]. The study was meant to explore the relationship between homosexuality and psychological development and illness. Hooker studied both homosexuals and heterosexuals. Both groups were matched for age, intelligence quotient (IQ) and education level, and were then subjected to three psychological tests. These three tests, the Rorschach, Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and the Make-A-Picture-Story Test (MAPS), were then analyzed by psychologists, and the results were tabulated. The results of Hooker's experiment yielded no significant differences in answers on any of the three tests. Because both groups' answers scored very similarly, she concluded a zero correlation between social determinism of sexuality. [/FONT]​
[FONT=&quot]As a result of Hooker's finding, the APA removed homosexuality from its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychological Disorders in 1973. In 1975 it then released a public statement that homosexuality was not a mental disorder. In 1994, two decades later, the APA finally stated, "...homosexuality is neither a mental illness nor a moral depravity. It is the way a portion of the population expresses human love and sexuality" [2]. [/FONT]​
[FONT=&quot]D.F. Swaab conducted the next noteworthy experiment in 1990. This experiment became the first to document a physiological difference in the anatomical structure of a gay man's brain. Swaab found in his post-mortem examination of homosexual males' brains that a portion of the hypothalamus of the brain was structurally different than a heterosexual brain. The hypothalamus is the portion of the human brain directly related to sexual drive and function. In the homosexual brains examined, a small portion of the hypothalamus, termed the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), was found to be twice the size of its heterosexual counterpart [2]. [/FONT]​
[FONT=&quot]At the same time, another scientist, Laura S. Allen made a similar discovery in the hypothalamus as well. She found that the anterior commissure (AC) of the hypothalamus was also significantly larger in the homosexual subjects than that of the heterosexuals [2]. Both Swaab's and Allen's results became a standing ground for the biological argument on homosexuality. The very fact that the AC and the SCN are not involved in the regulation of sexual behavior makes it highly unlikely that the size differences results from differences in sexual behavior. Rather the size differences came prenatally during sexual differentiation. The size and shape of the human brain is determined biologically and is impacted minutely, if at all by behavior of any kind. [/FONT]​
[FONT=&quot]Simon LeVay conducted another experiment regarding the hypothalamus of the human brain in 1991. LeVay, like Swaab and Allen also did a post-mortem examination on human brains; however, he did his examinations on patients who had died from AIDS-related illnesses. He examined 19 declared homosexual man, with a mean age of 38.2, 16 presumed heterosexual men, with a mean age of 42.8, and 6 presumed heterosexual women, with a mean age of 41.2 [3]. LeVay discovered that within the hypothalamus, the third interstitial notch of the anterior hypothalamus (INAH3) was two to three times smaller in homosexual men then in heterosexual men. The women examined also exhibited this phenomenon. LeVay concluded the "homosexual and heterosexual men differ in the central neuronal mechanisms that control sexual behavior", and like Allen and Swaab, agreed that this difference in anatomy was no product of upbringing or environment, but rather prenatal cerebral development and structural differentiation [2]. [/FONT]​
[FONT=&quot]Another line of testing done to support the biological perspective are neuroendocrine studies. The neuroendocrine viewpoint's basic hypothesis is that sexual orientation is determined by the early levels (probably prenatal) of androgen on relevant neural structures [7]. If highly exposed to these androgens, the fetus will become masculinized, or attracted to females. This research was conducted on rats at Stanford. The adult female rats that received male-typical levels of androgens sufficiently early in development exhibited male symptoms of attraction. The same was true in the reverse when applied to the male subjects. The female exposed to high levels of the hormone exhibited high levels of aggression and sexual drive toward other females, eventually trying to mount the other females in an act of reproduction. In the males, the subject who received deficient levels of androgen became submissive in matters of sexual drive and reproduction and were willing to receive the sexual act of the other male rat [7]. [/FONT]​
[FONT=&quot]A popular route of experimentation in general psychology also did not elude the biological argument. Twin studies have become a highly debated area of experimentation. Ernest Kallman conducted the earliest twin study. He found a 100% concordance between monozygotic (or identical) twins (MZ), and only a 12% concordance for dizygotic (or fraternal) twins (DZ). Although discredited with methodological problems, the early experiment paved the way for a much-publicized team to conduct their twin studies. [/FONT]​
[FONT=&quot]J. Michael Bailey and Richard Pillard also studied the gayness between MZ twins, DZ twins, and non-related adopted brothers. They examined how many of the sample population examined were gay and how many were straight. They found that 52% of MZ twins were both self-identified homosexuals, 22% of DZ twins were so, and only 5% of non-related adopted brothers were so. This evidence, repeated and found to be true a second time, showed to the biological camp that the more closely genetically linked a pair is, the more likely they both are to exhibit gay or straight tendencies. Later experimenters found similar evidence in females. One such scientist is Dean Hamer. Hamer examined the possibility of homosexuality being an X-linked trait. He examined the family trees of openly gay men, and thought he saw a maternal link, leading him to investigate his theory of X-linkage. He took 40 DNA samples from homosexual men, and genetically examined them. He found that there was a 'remarkable concordance' for 5 genetic markers on section of the X-Chromosome called Xq28 [2]. [/FONT]​
[FONT=&quot]Hamer hypothesized upon examining the family trees of the same men that on each subject's mother's side, there were markedly larger numbers of homosexual men, all stemming through the maternal lineages. This observation, along with his startling discovery on Xq28, led his findings to be dubbed the "gay gene study". The statistical probability of the 5 genetic markers on Xq28 to have matched randomly was calculated to be 1/100,000 [2], lending even more support to his findings. [/FONT]​
This finding of a possible 'gay gene' prompts a look into two evolutionary concepts, and how they are affected. The Superior Heterozygote Theory states the phenotypic (actual) expression of homosexuality is the result of homozygosity for recessive (non-expressed but present) genes [11]. In simplification, if the person's genetic code is heterozygotic (one homosexual gene and one heterosexual gene), if the homosexual allele (half of the genetic code) is the allele passed on to the next generation, it will become the phenotype. Heterozygotes are only capable of being passed through to the next generation by mothers (as the Y-chromosome is incapable of heterozygosity), this again links homosexuality to X-linkage.
Homosexuality: Nature or Nurture in AllPsych Journal

The l;ink also explores the
[FONT=&quot]sociobehaviorists argument as well.[/FONT]
 
No just saying that probably a likely possibility.
this is new for me because as I admitted in the past I wasn't exactly gay friendly but my brother always was, he had two girlfriends with gay brothers and one of his best friend is a lesbian so he knows tons. Ive only interacted with them in my later years and id say about 90% of them dated or had sex with the opposite sex because of fear, society thinking they could "fix it" etc.

Some of them have bounced back and fourth also, also admittedly because of the same and then some realized they are simply bi.

Again just saying its commonly not isolated for them to try and figure it out because of the pressure and fear.

As I said they may well have been, I don't know. I do know the girls did it a hell of allot more than the guys, lol.
 
some scientific evidence of homosexuality being biological:[FONT=&quot]


You do realize this is outdated data? It is from 2003. Since then it has been shown that no evidence exists for a physical manifestation of sexuality.

"There is no consensus among scientists about the exact reasons that an individual develops a heterosexual, bisexual, gay or lesbian orientation. Although much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors. Many think that nature and nurture both play complex roles...." - American Psychological Association (APA)

From 2009.
 
You do realize this is outdated data? It is from 2003. Since then it has been shown that no evidence exists for a physical manifestation of sexuality.

"There is no consensus among scientists about the exact reasons that an individual develops a heterosexual, bisexual, gay or lesbian orientation. Although much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social, and cultural influences on sexual orientation, no findings have emerged that permit scientists to conclude that sexual orientation is determined by any particular factor or factors. Many think that nature and nurture both play complex roles...." - American Psychological Association (APA)

From 2009.

I notice you ignored this part:

Many think that natureand nurture both play complex roles...."


IOW biology plays a part.
 
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