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[–] Moon_Man 6 points 2 points (+8|-6) ago 

Homosexuality is a mental illness not a choice.

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[–] fruitViking [S] 0 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Homosexuality is a mental illness not a choice.

Evidence?

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[–] umpaloompa 0 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago 

Because being gay happens in almost all animal species..., why not by humans..

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[–] Ayy_EllPao 2 points 2 points (+4|-2) ago  (edited ago)

Some species eat their young or other animal's shit... why not humans?

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[–] geist 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

mental illness

Not since the 70s.

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[–] AssicusCatticus 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I think you need to update the sources on which you're depending. There is much evidence that being gay is neither a choice, nor a mental illness. The brain of an effeminate gay man is structured more like that of a straight woman, than a straight man; the brain of a masculine lesbian is structured more like that of a straight man, than a straight woman. The pheromone receptors in the noses of gay people are structured to respond to the pheromones secreted by the same sex. These are physical differences that are not governed by choice OR mental illness.

My son is gay, and there's no mental illness there. He's a completely normal kid who happens to be gay. Please educate yourself before you go labeling a whole segment of the population as mentally ill or defective.

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[–] Fos 1 point 1 point (+2|-1) ago 

This is nothing to do with atheism, this place is already turning into reddit.

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[–] Duke_Leto2 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

So /v/atheism is a default here?

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[–] Ayy_EllPao 2 points 2 points (+4|-2) ago 

It's just as shitty here as it was on Reddit. Fucking online atheists are the worst, and I say that as an atheist.

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[–] fruitViking [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Fucking online atheists are the worst, and I say that as an atheist.

The worst kind of atheists are the ones who think they're so superior to other atheists.

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[–] fleas 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Even if being gay was a choice...so what? What does that have to with the government regulating any relationships? Get the government out of the marriage business.

(Like most things it's probably a combination of genetics, environment and choice. The ratios can be debated but in the end it doesn't matter what they are.)

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[–] WhoKilledMe 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

When a conservative says "Being gay is a choice" it seems like everyone just gets caught up in all the great counterarguments they have for that claim. No one stops to think more fundamentally, "Okay, so even if that was true...so what, it wouldn't make it wrong to be gay."

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[–] Omnipresent 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I never got to choose to be what I am... I was born an asshole. :(

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[–] blantonsoriginal ago 

I very much believe that people are born sexually agnostic (more or less) and that they eventually fall into specific sexual roles. Being gay is OK with me, not that any gay person needed my validation.

With that said, I also believe that "born gay" is just cover-fire / rationalizing a persons sexual orientation and that there is only a preoccupation with such a notion because, in the society that exist today, there is a stigma.

These are my musings based on what I believe what level of behavior DNA is capable of pre-programming. I very well could be wrong.

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[–] IdeologyIsHuman ago 

I think people sometimes misunderstand the statement of choice. To some people, the choice means your personal attractions and romantic capacity. To other people it means your literal actions. People as a general rule cannot choose who they are attracted to (not in overt ways, typically, but they can open their mind to new experiences and find certain types of people attractive they might not have found attractive before), however they can choose to act in homosexual partnerships and have homosexual intercourse.

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[–] suptech ago  (edited ago)

I'm not taking sides here, but her sign doesn't make sense? Have you ever heard anyone say "Being gay is a choice, so we shouldn't allow gay marriage"? Usually they're opposed to gay marriage because "it's against their religion", "sanctity of marriage", "unnatural", etc.

Am I the only one to notice this issue with her sign?

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[–] fruitViking [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Have you ever heard anyone say "Being gay is a choice, so we shouldn't allow gay marriage"?

Yes, I have. Many, many, many times, in fact.

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[–] suptech ago  (edited ago)

I see. That's kind of a non-sequitur. "Dating blondes is a choice, therefore marrying blondes should be banned"

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