Throughout history, society's biggest threat has always been it's desire to weed out those it deems to be immoral. To find those are different and persecute them for their way of life, and their desire to be treated fairly and with equal rights. At the forefront of the battle against equality, homosexuals have become a major target for those who live under the eyes of God. .
In the Bible, the books by which all faithful Christians live by, it states that to lie with another of the same sex is a sin. But who cares about a book that has no real facts and no evidence to support it's meaning? Unfortunately, the majority of people living in the United States do. Which seems to be the reason behind so much hate and oppression that many homosexuals face in the world today. The major arguement that seems to be in play at the moment is that people are capable of choosing to be gay. That, simply put, is completely ridiculous. Who in their right mind would ever choose to be beaten and abused just because they love? .
Recently, the issue of gay marriage has become and important topic within the news. While many countries around the world are open and willing to accept, it seems that, yet again, the United States is still holding on to their stupidity. Anyone who is against homosexuality is entitled to their opinion, but they're wrong. Plain and simple. .
No one wants any limits on his attitudes, beliefs or behavior. ... This relates to the freedom of choice there. ... In other words, heterosexuals can not be made special. ... However, these are all external issues, no one ,for example, is born without kidneys or a heart. ... Some people think that there is no homosexuality in Islamic countries and sometimes they just deny it. ...
These tribes felt that since homosexuals were different, god had spent more time on them and had therefore made them special. ... God at no time in the bible curses homosexuals for having this type of lifestyle. ... Is it Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, some other religion, or no religion?... It was easy to get books on homosexuality but it was difficult to get ones describing the views of religion when asked if it is a choice or innate. ... The Catholic believing that it is no a choice and there was a split with the Protestants one thought that it was a choice and the other that it wasn't....
The issue of homosexuality, and the marriage of same-sex couples is purely one of opinion. ... There is no deifinte proof that homosexuality is or is not a "choice" that men and women make about their sexuality. ... One valid point derived from the argument from the Catholic Church, is that a persons foremost purpose for being on this earth is to reproduce, and how then can homosexuality be natural. A culture made up solely of homosexuals would not survive past the first generation, which proves that homosexuality is only detrimental to society, speaking in an evolutionary perspective. .....
They believe that this should be made known and made right. ... It is natural; you have no choice in the matter. ... Some people have come to terms with the fact that homosexuality is not a choice or a preference. ... If the Christian community would see such a thing as cursing one's parents as they see homosexuality there would be no Christian community. ... The Hebrews had no word for homosexual behavior therefore it was translated as "the man who lies with a male the lying of a woman" this phrase could have been translated one of two ways. ...
The findings were shocking to the nation: thirty-seven percent of the men had at least one homosexual experience to orgasm; an additional thirteen percent had homosexual fantasies to orgasm; four percent were exclusively homosexual; five percent had virtually no heterosexual experience and nearly one fifth had at least as many homosexual experiences as heterosexual experiences. ... Instead, homophobia scoured the nation and homosexuals were made to feel that they weren't equals with heterosexuals. ... Mohr states "That gay people abide in being gay is not a matter of easy choice......
Research tends to show that homosexuality is not a disease, and is in fact simply a sexual choice. ... The treatment would then be to attempt psychodynamic cures that attempt to change homosexual attractions into the more widely accepted heterosexual ones. ... The American Psychiatric Association opposes any psychiatric treatment, such as 'reparative' or 'conversion' therapy, which is based upon the assumption that homosexuality per se is a mental disorder or based upon a prior assumption that the patient should change his/her homosexual orientation there is no published e...
It was not a choice for me to be a straight, white female; it was not a choice for my friend, Andrew, to be a white, homosexual, male. ... Andrew has no other relatives who are, "LGBT." ... He hopes to one day start a family of his own, with a future husband, and one day be able to adopt children from a foreign country. Andrew mentioned many times that homosexuality is not an easy sexual orientation, but it is one he most definitely did not choose. ... Just as it is not my choice to be a straight heterosexual in America, it is not the choice of a, "GLBT," member's to be homosexual. ...
Was the relation between Septimus Warren Smith and Evans a homosexual one? ... Methodology and Approach "Gender Studies examines how gender is less determined by nature than it is by culture" (Guerin 236), and as Simone de Beauvoir said in The Second Sex: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one". ... One's sex, Millet asserts, is biologically determined, but one's gender is a social construct created by society. ... Gender studies examine how gender is less determined by nature than it is by culture and as Simone de Beauvoir said in The Second Sex: "One is not born a wo...
Even in this twenty- first century, there are myths about homosexuality, whether it is in a political venue, social venue, cultural venue, or any other aspect of one's life. ... It is no longer a question of nature vs. nurture. ... Whereas they found that individuals with twin brothers, one gay and one straight, had only a 4% chance of being gay (Stombler Rd. 6). ... One study in showed that when one identical twin is homosexual 52% of their identical siblings were as well. ... This may all be true, but the fact is that no real empirical evidence of the origin of homosexuality and or cau...