Choosing Homosexuality? What about choosing Homophobia?

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alainnanam
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Posted on Oct 19, 2009 5:57 PM


Many people believe that homosexuality is a choice. I'm not one of those people. I recently heard the story of a gay man now living in New York who spent the first 5 years of his life living in Jamaica. At the age of 4 he was climbing a large tree when he suddenly saw a man running toward it. There was a group of men chasing him and they trapped him at the base of the tree. They threw rocks at him, kicked, and beat him until he "stopped moving." All the while they shouted homophobic names and remarks because the man was gay. The man died as a result of this attack. I had no idea that this kind of thing was happening in Jamaica, but to this day an openly gay person is at risk of assault causing death.

This 4 year old young man is gay. Does it make any kind of sense that he would choose to be homosexual after watching the savage murder of another human being simply because that human being was homosexual? In my opinion, no one with any ability to choose heterosexuality over homosexuality would choose to live life as a homosexual after witnessing such horror.

So why is all the emphasis placed on whether or not a person chooses to be homosexual when the real question is why do so many people choose to be homophobic? After all, no matter what we are taught as children, there comes a time in adulthood when we have to be accountable for the beliefs we choose to adhere to, and whether or not we try to teach those prejudices to others.

Alain

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1. Re: Choosing Homosexuality? What about choosing Homophobia?
Oct 28, 2009 10:09 AM   |   In response to: alainnanam


Alain, dear friend, our society is so dysfunctional it usually can't see the forest for the trees.

You've seen my other posts wherein I complain about women telling me I can't get a girlfriend because I'm "gay but don't know It"?

Well, I'll tell you something. When I was as young as three or four, I actually recall telling my siblings I loved girls. I'd never heard of any kind of sexuality. I was just telling them about something I liked.

But of course, when I tell this to other people, it often bounces off them like water off a duck. And why? Because people who insist I'm gay WANT ME TO BE GAY!

Too many humans have to be "right" about everything. It's a Nietzchean failure: the inability to tolerate a world they can't control.

It's yet another symptom of willful human de-evolution.

Humans often choose and even create their own "enemies" simply because they need somebody to win against.

It's like General George Patton telling a fellow officer how he LOVED WAR!

If that isn't an indication of de-evolution, I don't know what is.

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2. Re: Choosing Homosexuality? What about choosing Homophobia?
Oct 29, 2009 5:59 AM   |   In response to: alainnanam


There will always be prejudice. Whether it be against the Gay, Black, White, Red, Yellow. People will always find a way to be prejudice. They will always find something to protest against. On another post a person asked a question and another answered it. Then other posters bashed her for answering it. You see it doesn't matter what it is. If a person is different from the so called norm (as to what society calls norm) then a gang or the weak will bash.

I find it is usually threatened people that have nothing better to do with themselves or those with low-self-esteem harass. Feel sorry for these people. These are the ones we need to embrace. Those are the ones that have the real problems. They are the really sick ones. They are uninformed and are led easily. Usually not well educated and low morals.

We really need to pray for them. This is my opinion and I submit this with due respect.

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3. Re: Choosing Homosexuality? What about choosing Homophobia?
Oct 29, 2009 9:41 AM   |   In response to: menosaint

"Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport, for lust, for greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, lest he make a wasteland of your home and his. Shun him. Drive him deep into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of Death."

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ray's1love
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4. Re: Choosing Homosexuality? What about choosing Homophobia?
Oct 30, 2009 6:56 PM   |   In response to: menosaint


Black, white, red, and yellow are colors, not ethnicities.

Ray'sLove

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