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Originally Posted by alansmithee
Again, where is the evidence it isn't partially a choice? It has nothing do do with seeing it on the outside. If i'm born deaf, I can't go years pretending to hear. And also, you can't just look at someone and say for certain if they are deaf.
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The "choice" a homosexual has is whether to act on his attraction or not. They don't have a choice on the attraction itself. You don't need evidence to figure this out. It's obvious. I would agree that the environment of a person predisposed to homosexuality could influence the intensity of attraction they feel towards the same sex, but choice has nothing to do with it.
I believe homosexuality is on a spectrum- Almost everybody has bisexual tendancies, repressed or not. A person coined as a homosexual is just on the other end of the string; they have a strong attraction to the same sex and very little to the opposite sex. I also think if there was a choice involved, there would be a lot more homosexuals in the world. Or rather, bisexuals. People would get out a relationship, pissed off at the opposite sex, and choose to start a same sex relationship to see if it's better.
(again) If it's really a choice, how do you choose to be gay?
And the whole point of this thread is that since gay men and women cannot get married, and recieve the same benefits that this social contract gives to heterosexuals, they are being discriminated against. They do not have the right to get married. Why are we stopping them from being able to marry? Is the difference of sexual orientation so fundamentally different from what you think as "normal" humanity that they should not be accorded the same rights as you?