Many gays and lesbians say that being that way isn't a choice. Many straight people, especially the religious right claim that it is a choice. Is it possible the reason for this is that most people are actually bisexual, and choose to be straight?
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jacyschroeder
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I believe that everyone chooses to be gay or lesbian, children are brought up knowing that men and women join together for some reason and this is considered normal. At some point in someones life they may decide they find men or woman more attractive instead of the opposite sex, but it is a choice! It may not be a choice they conciously make, but it is a choice! BTW I am not a religious man, I am not a gay man and I do not have any problem with people that are gay! Live and let live!
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No. I'm pretty sure that the most outspoken are soundly, solidly homosexual, in denial, and crusading against themselves more than anything. Think Ted Haggard. Most of those loud anti-homosexual (actually, anti-anything-but-straight-white-man-with-a-wedgie) bigots are probably in the hot tub spreading oil on each other as we type.
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The Xtians claim it is a choice to protect their homophobic religion. Most of them are bi.
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I don't think that anyone that claims we "choose" (i.e., the religious right) actually knows or has bothered to get to know anyone LGBT. and they can never answer the question of when they chose to be straight. it's who we innately are....there is no choice. it's genetic...how we're born.
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you are either gay or not...there aint no in between bro. and no its really not a choice ive known since i could talk homie...
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No. According to the AMA and the APA, people do not "choose" their orientation, nor is it open to change.
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We can't always choose the thoughts that enter our head. But we do have a choice whether or not we act on them. And before anybody decides to judge me based on my answer I have enough to do to manage my own inappropriate thoughts to be judging anyone else's. (thoughts that is not whether or not they're inappropriate)
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Perhaps because the only way presumably non gay religious people can claim that being gay is a choice is if they have the desire to be gay but are making the choice not to be gay. It makes sense to me that gay people are not gay by choice because I am not gay, not by choice but because I have no desire to be gay. I have to assume gay people make their sexual preference choice exactly the same way. Why do you suppose so many religious people have gay desires?
Linda Joy 
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