Dec 05 2009
Is homosexuality a choice?
I believe that I’ve written about this before. I grew up knowing that I am a homosexual even before I knew what the word meant. Coming from a brood of 10 children, it was more likely for a family of that size to have at least one homosexual person… and that person is me.
When I started feeling this way, I remember looking up the word homosexual from those huge Encyclopaedia Britannica books (if you remember them, it kinda ages us a bit. LOL). I tried to understand why people fall in love (or lust) after the same sex. I was confused.
I carried that confusion all the way through college. It was something that I couldn’t grasp. My uber-religious backgroud based on Christianity even made me feel worse. It was supposed to be a sin and something that I shouldn’t be feeling. But I did.
That would take me years before I meet someone who explained it to me in real terms. In religious terms. I cannot find that person anymore, but he was the most beautiful creature to me. He was able to make me see that God loves me for who I am. And through him, God manifested Himself to make me understand that I am God’s project.
Take a look at this video and tell me what you think.
The world is changing as I write this. There are more people accepting of homosexuals, and more and more people are coming out. Most of the youth today get the courage to come out of the closet younger because they see that homosexuals are regular people. If you watch any of the TV shows today, you would see at least one homosexual character. And rightfully so! We are part of humanity.
My friends who are straight, and who are very accepting of homosexuality are not threatened by us. They support us and they love us in the same level as they love their straight friends. I don’t feel that I will go straight to hell anymore simply because I’m gay. If I am a promiscuous gay person, I still may go to hell. If I am a gay person who murders anyone – yes, I still believe that heaven won’t be the place for me. But that’s just it. Being gay alone is not enough reason for me to think that God will condemn me with eternal damnation.
Happy Saturday! 
Unfortunately, it would take 3 days for me to watch that clip on my dinosaur dial-up connection, so I’m unable to comment on it. Well… I could still comment on it but it would be out of pure ignorance of its contents! Heh.
There are a number of gay people in my life, and I’ve always found them to be anything but the evil, hysteria inducing stereotype that certain sections of the community would have us believe.
In fact, very few of these even act like what the media would have us believe gay men to be like… effeminate with high pitched, sometimes catty voices and power mincing everywhere. Nope, the homosexual folks I know act just like regular people, not like 2 dimensional characters out of Dharma & Greg!
While I agree that attitudes towards homsosexuals have come far, I would add that there’s still an awful lot of education that needs to happen. The best education, I find, is to simply be friends with the gays in my life. There’s nothing like getting to know someone to break down misconceptions. Works every time.
I don’t really know if being a homosexual is really a choice or not. But I am homosexual myself, and I still don’t know if it’s right or wrong. But I stopped questioning myself and I stopped resisting, I just let it be, let it flow naturally. I raised my questions to God as he has the power to change me if it is His will.
I think that the most important thing in living is to just be who you are. There is more and more evidence that there is a genetic component. Homosexuals are still receive the most prejudice among all of the minority groups.
I think that it is interesting that you are the last in ten…because of the statistics regarding bith order.
Hello Geo and thanks for visiting my blog again. I like your attitude. Alwasy remember.. God is love. Regardless of gender, race or anything else – He loves you.
hi cc! Isn’t it? Very interesting that I turned out to be gay and the science about it.. haha! Mind you – five older brothers.. what odds …