Sarah Palin claims "I don't judge people on their sexuality but gay is a choice!"

[Shadow]

I like Sarah Palin ,she's young,good-looking,smart and she's not afraid to speak her mind. I too think that being gay it's a choice,and she said she doesn't judge.

It's not the same think and you know it.Heterosexuality is natural.

Xyalfa as much as I do my best to have respect and time for the thoughts and points of view of everybody I meet, both in my day-to-day life and online (whether I happen to agree with them or not), I do find you like to sail close to the wind, and this time I'm afraid you've ruffled my feathers ...

Who are you (who is anybody) to question the morality of beings that simply are ? Do you REALLY think you're entitled to sit and lambast other people for the way they live their lives ? Because I've just about had enough I have to say, and I find it personally offensive to sit here and listen to you fingerpoint and suggest that homosexuality isn't natural ... or that homosexuality is a choice ... I choose what colour socks I wear in the morning; I choose whether I continue to listen to you; I do not choose who I love or what I find attractive - as Marshlander has very sagely said, I choose what I do about it ... so I would agree that homosexuals AS HETEROSEXUALS have a CHOICE as to whether they practice their sexuality (if you can call it a choice - try asking your average straight guy OR girl to NOT love or to NOT engage in physical intimacy and see if you can get through to them why they should stop), but not whether they are, or are not, homosexual.

What frustrates me most about your standpoint and the glib way in which you pass commend and JUDGMENT on other people is that I have PERSONALLY borne witness more times than I care to recall to people bawling their eyes out at the CRAP they have to go through because they were born gay, sometimes wishing they could change it to avoid receiving ABUSE - and not because they want to be (what YOU call) "normal", but simply because they don't want to be hated or feared or shunned ... and it ABSOLUTELY breaks my heart, so to think that there is somebody sitting there, drumming their fingers on the bible and going "yeah well you're gonna burn in Hell anyway because you've CHOSEN this lifestyle" vexes me beyond the point of anger.

Your very first post on this site said, in part (and I quote) :-

"Till now I've only had relationships with girls but now I think I'm starting to like men also ,so I'm very afraid of turning gay and fell the need to speak with someone"

If you believe that then based on what you're now saying (that homosexuality is a choice) you believe that you yourself are choosing to find men attractive ? And taking into account your apparent distaste for homosexuality I am having real difficulty in working out how you can maintain this standpoint ? Perhaps from your highly religious belief system you feel that you are being tested somehow ?

Ultimately, as Spotysocks says (and I agree) this is not a self-help forum ... so if you think that homosexuality is some kind of curse or disease or illness then you're a) barking up the wrong tree, and b) SORELY mistaken if you think you're going to find some sort of "cure" for it here (or anywhere else for that matter). This site exists to offer a framework within which people of like mind can share their tales, experiences, and get to know each other better as friends, so by all means, stick around and talk to us if that's what you want, but remain respectful and mindful of your tongue - you've already been warned by Spotysocks, who has (I feel) shown you great patience thusfar - and for my part I'm far from being an ogre, but I won't stand for you berating people or branding homosexuality as some great evil when it simply exists, and simply is ... and all the great massive of gay people out there want is to lead happy, peaceful lives side-by-side with everybody else that shares this planet.

If you feel otherwise then that is your opinion and you are perfectly entitled to it ... and I don't even mind you VOICING that opinion, as long as you do so in a manner that is polite, respectful, and does not openly antagonise or attack us individually or collectively.

So if you want to talk to us about what it's like to be gay, or to LEARN about what it's like to be gay, or to share your views, religious or otherwise, in a respectful and polite and considerate manner (as I feel there IS a lot we could learn from you and your beliefs), then stick around - if, however, all you can think to do is PAN us with ill-conceived and poorly-constructed biblical rhetoric, then I would suggest you look to do so elsewhere, as my patience (which I PRIDE myself on) is seriously close to running out.

!?!?! Shadow !?!?!