Quick question for my English paper

[Nathan]

Do you believe being homosexual is Genetic or is it a Choice? or neither.

[Counselor]

Genetics. I read this article last year, and I also think there is merit to the "birth order" theory, but I'm the first of five, my sister is bi, and my mother is a lesbian, so I sort of hit a genetic intersection to begin with...

[Lilitu]

I think I can only speculate, but I think that in most cases it is genetic/pre-natal factors that are brought out, and manifest as homosexuality by the person's social environment.

[SolemnBoy]

Of course I don't really have anything but speculations although I'm personally convinced that it's genetic.

[Pix]

Seems innate to me. And someone gay can CHOOSE to live a heterosexual life, get married, have kids, etc, but that doesn't change their actual desires. Those who say they "chose" to be straight or gay are bisexual, IMO, and so far I've found that assumption to be correct whenever I was able to find out (but I still call them bi who has become celibate to one gender). (If you're wondering, I HAVE challenged fundies to tell me when they CHOSE to be straight and thus resisted the temptation to be gay but every single one of them so far has refused to answer and many got very upset with me.)

But more importantly, it's irrelevant. Heterosexuals can CHOOSE to only hook up with members of a certain race (their own or another), economic class, subculture, religion, etc, but so what? They have the freedom to choose. I really don't understand the BS that if we could choose to be straight that therefore we're obligated to, or why, assuming it's a "choice," that it's not just as wrong as making people "choose" to marry within their race (and the same arguments, and using the Bible, was also made in justifying racial marriage laws, heck the reason the government got involved in marriage in the first place was to keep the white race pure).

[Counselor]

I think I can only speculate, but I think that in most cases it is genetic/pre-natal factors that are brought out, and manifest as homosexuality by the person's social environment.

I used to think this, a sort of "predisposition" that gets cemented in by society. But I was raised in a Christian church, and by the time I was 11, I had some VERY weird ideas about sex for a kid that had never seen porn.

If nothing else, society cemented my staying in the closet.

[Bowyn Aerrow]

Neither. Identical twins sharing the same genetics can be of different sexualities.

There is a pecking order in who gets what in the womb, which lends some favor toward mom making you gay or straight based on the chemicals you receive from her body during your fetal development.

I would say biology plays the largest factor, but not 'genes' perse.

[dfiant]

Biological.

[Geminize]

These scientists agree with Bowyn. Dec 2012 Time article.

[Undreamt]

Can you choose your genes?