No... I'm saying I do not believe children growing up in a home with gay or lesbian parents feel any sort of "psychological torture."
I presented this as a question, not a general fact. Keep that in mind.
I truly do not think it is even remotely a reality.
Because you don't want to.
I've never seen it, know of no research, nothing. Do you have any sort of evidence that heterosexual children feel "psychological torture" by having gay or lesbian parents?
My wife is a child psychologist and she has to deal with kids feeling discriminated against for a wide variety of reasons, some of which deal with the parents. Last night I was watching another "reality show" and I don't know what it was called, but I saw enough of it to realize the mother was a former model and playboy pinup. Even though she was in her 50's, she was always dressing in tight shorts as if she were in her 20's. Her daughter was always embarrassed to be seen in public with her. Now assume she had to deal with two fathers. You don't seem to understand or appreciate the impact these kinds fo things have on children... unless of course they are gay children.
Yes, I do think the vast majority of children are "born that way," Absolutely.
There is no evidence for that. Some are, but not most. Most experiment and most who don't even talk about experimenting sexually.
I never said "all" children are told they are Satanic... I do think the in the conservative religious communities it is very common for children to be told their sexual orientation is of Satan. No question about this. You know this Kevin.
But you know nothing about the details. Do you know how children do things to rebel against parents because of religious beliefs? The fact that my parents hated the Mormons only drove me to investigate it. I think parents that oipenly teach hatred towards homosexuals will naturally encourage a rebellious teenager to experiment with that too. I know for a fact that my uncle married a chinese woman only because my grandfather hated them.
You have just got to be kidding if you think these kids aren't suffering.
Well they aren't in San Francisco or Atlanta or even Orlando. It seems like half of Walt Disney world if Gay. They even have Gay day.
There could be any number of reasons why we see more homosexuality now vs forty years ago.
Yes, and it has everything to do with the power of influencial TV programs. Like Rosey O'Donnell, Ellen Degeneres, Tila Tequila, etc. They become role models.
Doesn't change the fact that most people are born with their sexual orientation determined.
I actually believe most people are. But most of them are heterosexual and a small minority are homosexual. You can just tell which ones are. True homosexuality is not "natural" in any sense other than it is a genetic defect that should be tolerated. People should not be discriminated against for being homosexual anymore than someone with Parkinson's disease should be treated differently. But there are a great number of homosexuals who simply choose this path.
About 12 years ago, to give an example, I had a gay person in Orlando hit on me. He told me that he wasn't a "dominant" gay. I said no, but I was curious about the dominant comment, so I asked him what he was talking about. He said he only wanted to have oral sex with me. That was it. He even said that anal sex and the thought of it, disgusted him. To give or receive, it disgusted him. He just liked giving oral sex, and he said that in his experience, about 1/4 of homosexuals he has met at clubs, fall into this category. They have oral fixations that are better satified with men than women.
He also explained that this is why he didn't appear gay. He didn't walk in a prancy way, or talk with his hands in a limp manner, etc. I was like WOW, I didn't realize any of this. But the more I investigated the subject by talking to other gays,. the more I realized this subset of homosexuality was not something they were born with. It was just something they chose to do as they exposed themselves to that culture.
Anyway, my view is not based in ignorance. It is based on my own exposure to a number of homosexuals I have known in the past.
“All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it...Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty as regards reality." - Albert Einstein