Is homosexuality a choice?

[_bcspace]

Whether or not homosexuality is genetic is irrelevant to the LDS position because of Ether 12:27 and 1 Nephi 3:7.

I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but I have never once payed attention to a message board argument based on scripture. So....

.....so you'll always be talking past us then.

[_asbestosman]

Its a perversion, plain and simple. And a choice.

So is mayonnaise. Yuck.

One might also argue that other brands of religion are perversions of the true church as well as being a choice.

[_Boaz & Lidia]

Are furries geneticly predisposed to being furries?

Are S&M fetish freaks geneticly predisposed?

Scat lovers?

Beastiality?

Pedophiles?

Its a perversion, plain and simple. And a choice.

Perhaps your greatest fear is that soon polygamy will be legal and soon after LDS Inc will be forced to recognize homosexual polygamous marriages. Butch gods will be empowered in the hereafter.

[_Some Schmo]

I think we should attach some probes to you and have you watch some mayo porn. We can then see what your reaction is. I think you secretly yearn for mayonnaise and your repression is coming out in this undo hostility.

Well, I suppose it'd have a better chance at being useful than electro-shock therapy where you hook up the tongues of deviant mayo-lovers to some electrodes and then shock them every time they see mayo-porn. We could also show them butter or sour-cream porn too but without shocking them. We tried some experiments a decade or two ago, but the success rate was negligable and besides, the pro-mayonnaise movement has become too powerful and therefore society has decided that it's cruel and barbaric. Personally I think that mayo is far more cruel and barbaric, but I don't control the world--yet.

I knew it!

I'm willing to bet you've psyched yourself out of mayo because you have a healthy fear of being alone with it. Everyone knows that if you engage in the sin of bringing forth large quantities of mayo all alone, it leads to an unhealthy love of mayo, and it won't be long before you are watching mayo-porn, smearing mayo all over yourself, and marching in mayo pride parades. You could even catch a disease as a punishment from god and end up in the mayo clinic.

[_harmony]

... and end up in the mayo clinic.

*groan*

[_Ren]

I've seen parents use mayonnaise in their kids sarnies!

Did you inform the authorities?

I was tempted. But - in all other respects - they've been good parents to me...! :)

[_Ren]

Are furries geneticly predisposed to being furries?

Donno. None of your business either way.

Are S&M fetish freaks geneticly predisposed?

Donno. None of your business either way.

Scat lovers?

Donno. None of your business either way.

Beastiality?

Animals have rights ya know.

Pedophiles?

Kids have rights ya know.

Its a perversion, plain and simple.

...that's all perception. Nothing more, nothing less.

And a choice.

...as much of a choice as the 'choice' you made to be hetrosexual.

[_Gazelam]

...that's all perception. Nothing more, nothing less.

Fair warning. Some things on the internet can never be unseen. Try looking up Scat lovers, and then come back and tell me if that being labeled a perversion is a "perception issue".

Some people just get twisted in the head and learn to justify things in their own mind. That doesent make it right.

[_Chap]

Some things on the internet can never be unseen. Try looking up Scat lovers, and then come back and tell me if that being labeled a perversion is a "perception issue".

What on earth did you expect to see when you looked up 'Scat lovers'?

Personally I have no objection to people who want to play with excrement in private doing so, so long as they observe hygiene (so they create not medical risk to the rest of us who may encounter them), and do not bother other people about their recreational preferences.

I on the other hand am heavily programmed by my culture and perhaps inbuilt programming to find contact with excrement an unpleasant thought, one that might well put me off my lunch. I am frankly coprophobic. So I do not look for 'scat' links on the internet. I commend that policy to the undecided.

[_Ren]

Fair warning. Some things on the internet can never be unseen. Try looking up Scat lovers, and then come back and tell me if that being labeled a perversion is a "perception issue".

I've seen a brief clip of the kind of stuff you are referring to.
...do I think of it as 'perverted'? Yeah - probably. That doesn't mean it isn't a matter of perception.

I don't think of homosexuality as 'perverted' - I don't think of it as anything like being a 'scat lover' really. I don't think of a bit of S&M as 'perverted' either. As long as it's within reasonable bounds, it's just a bit of harmless fun as far as I'm concerned.

You seem to view both the above as 'perversions'. *shrug* That's your 'perception'.

Not saying I would particularly wanna do anything like that, but I don't draw the line between 'perverted' and 'not perverted' by the benchmark of what I do or don't want to do.
I think that would be thinking a little too highly of my own particular 'tastes'.

Some people just get twisted in the head

...like people who can't tolerate something that isn't their business. Agreed - it's a twisted attitiude...

and learn to justify things in their own mind

...agreed. The 'I'm alright Jack' attitude is a great justification for looking down on others who aren't like you...

That doesent make it right.

Agreed. Some things aren't right, which would make them wrong. Thank goodness you're around to tell us these things :)