Watkins: Being gay is not a choice

[jaded]

If being gay is a choice then when did you choose to be straight?

[JJanims]

It’s not a choice. If you don’t like eggs, did you choose to not like eggs? No. If you are a boy and not like women...did you choose to just not like women? It’s not a choice but it can change. Just how if you hated eggs as a child but like them now.

[ratking]

most people probably already know this but anderson is gay himself

[ronniejones]

People worry about sexual orientation more than things that's really Important in life

[MrMDwayneG]

If you really believe its a choice, then you basically question your own sexual orientation.

[Oog]

i totally sat down one day and said “i wanna hold hands with my boyfriend so i can get shot at and beat up”

[ProgressivePsyche]

If being homosexual is a choice, then when did you chose to be heterosexual?

[buddyontheweb]

Only bigots and phobes would make such a stupid guess. Bigotry is a sin but you never hear bigots damning themselves do you? Hypocrites, one and all.

[danielsmith]

If you could choose, you would not choose the difficult option.
This has been said by many prominent gay people.
You are born gay in my opinion.
I know many gay people and have had this discussion.
You also only have to look into the tragic cases of people such as Alan Turin. A person that helped win WW2 but was persecuted to the point of suicide for his supposed choice.
Look at interviews with contemporaries such as Boy George and many others that have expressed their feelings from pre teen years.
As a heterosexual I could never change my sexual preference.
Could you?
Either that or you are saying you could easily choose to have gay sex if you want but you are just controlling it.

[joaquin]

It's not a choice, no one wants to be discriminated of being gay.

[kimbisdoes]

I can say this because I'm bi, being that way is not a choice. You can't just get up one day and be like, "hey, I don't want to be bi anymore, I'm just going to put it in the trash and go on thoughout my day. Same thing goes if your gay or straght.

[Trampadoo]

So what you are saying is that we are all bisexual and then just turn straight or gay, even though we all have completely different lifes and people tend to know that they are gay or straight at a very young age, pretty much soon after they are capable of conscious thought?

You do know that the gender we are attracted to or identify with is controlled by our hormones which are in turn controlled by our genetic setup which is already present in a baby?

[williamroberts]

You can hide your sexual orientation on an job application but you cannot hide your race on an job application

[spectaclereplication]

I really respect gay friendly christians. They are choosing the right path, the one of love and civility.
Do unto others as they would do unto you..simple really.

[nicholasgalev]

Who you are attracted to isn’t a choice

[Yellowpaintproduct]

Just remember if you say being gay IS A CHOICE you say that you can be gay

[sebbruun]

If homosexuality is a choice then heterosexuality must be too.

Being homosexual or heterosexual is not a choice. It's something you were born with.

[dr.coomer]

Being gay is not a choice
Almost every peoples in my country: LIAR

[bosshog]

Wait, So my expressing my love sexually with my fiance would be a misrepresentation of that love because why? Because I actually agree with you on the sister and the father part. What would make my love for my partner sexually a misrepresentation? We're not blood related, our parents aren't married, and we certainly aren't brothers. Here I thought I was learning something until you claimed my misrepresentation.Then it sounds like religious bigotry. Like when people justified slavery with a bible

[thehitman]

I have come to the conclusion that gay is definitely not a choice and it’s something the individual is born with and cannot change.
Ok first when you say that being gay is a choice. Do you also agree that it’s a choice that all men can make or a choice that only gay men have ? Because by saying it’s a choice you are admitting that every man also has this option. I don’t know about you but I definitely cannot choose to be gay. I don’t have the sexual and romantic feeling for men. And that’s because I’m straight and its the same for gay people. They can see attractive women all day. They will never switch sides. That’s because you can’t choose what your sexuality is. And if you feel that you can choose to be gay then you probably was already gay and never tested yourself into knowing your sexuality.