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True smoking has no visible benefits to the person’s health. However, if you ask a smoker why they smoke you might be surprised at what they say. Yes, some smokers smoke because they can’t break the habit. Others will tell you it helps them relax. Still others will say it helps with their thought process. Now for comparisons sake, let’s look at “choosing” to be gay (I still maintain it’s not a choice but bear with me here). The pros of such a “choice” are… wait, there aren’t any. There is no one standing around saying, “It’s fun to be gay.” There isn’t anyone saying, “Everyone’s doing it,” to young people. There aren’t any subliminal messages in the media saying, “Being gay is cool.” In fact, if you look at the media right now, most of the gay people are the comical relief of the shows they are in, and are made out to be on par with idiots. The point is there really isn’t any motivation or pressure to “choose” to be gay. Now let’s look at the cons of said “choice”. Let’s see, you get to be hated and ridiculed by the largest religious sect in existence. You get turned down from jobs because your personal feelings happen to be different from everyone else’s. You can’t marry your significant other, or even go with them to the hospital if they get hurt. There are loads of other cons too. If people were out to choose the most hated lifestyle they could, why not become a lawyer instead. At least then you get paid to be hated.
Yes you are perfectly entitled to your own opinion, and so am I. So is every other person on this site. However, you should realize that if you post something you know someone’s going to find offensive, then guess what? They’re going to be offended by it. You can’t say you’re consciously trying to avoid offending people if you know someone will find what you write offensive. Now here’s the clincher. No matter what it is you write, someone somewhere is going to take offense over one thing or another. The only way you can consciously avoid offending people is to not write at all, but I know that’s probably not going to happen.
Ok so you had a sexual identity crises in school. So you chose to be straight. Wonderful. That’s your prerogative as a human being to choose who you want to look at. Now before I go on, I’d like to introduce a third group that all of us have been ignoring in this little discussion. Yes, it’s time to bring the bi-sexuals in on this. Those people who are attracted to both men and women. Now then, in high school, you say you weren’t sure whether you were attracted to men or women. You decided for yourself, for whatever reason, that you thought being attracted to men wasn’t ok, so you “chose” to be straight. However, if you can still look at a guy and think, “Yeah I could see what being in a relationship with him would be like,” then, according to you, you’re one of those Christians who’s “just going through the motions.” Now if you want to tell me that you’ve sworn never to look at another man again, great. Good for you. Go for it. By your own definition then, you would be a Christian. By my definition, I don’t care what you choose, you believe in Christ, you’re a Christian. So lay off the people who turned out the other way and still believe in God and Jesus just like you. Just because they think differently, doesn’t make their faith any less than yours.
Now I know this last part is going to sound repetitive, but I’m going to post it anyway. It isn’t a choice. If it were, then we would all have to make it, and since the majority of religions aren’t teaching anything about choosing to be gay to the children that attend them, I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the founders of these religions didn’t view it as a choice either. It’s not like Billy the 13 year old, woke up one morning and thought to himself, “You know, from now on, I’m going to be gay.” No. It doesn’t happen like this. It’s something that people realize gradually over time, and there really are only three possibilities when they do realize it.
1. They can accept it and go on about their lives happily.
2. They can deny it and try to suppress it and live the rest of their lives as a lie, trying to uphold the precious status quo.
3. They can be so overwhelmed by the hazing, discrimination, and other bull shit people throw at them that they decide to stick their head in a microwave and “end it all.”
Now, yes if criminals weren’t criminal they wouldn’t be punished. However, since being gay isn’t a choice, there really isn’t any comparison between the two statements.
Now just one more thing I’d like to say. When I post, I do my absolute best to avoid slandering the bible, your ideas, or anyone else’s. So, I would kindly ask you not to refer to my arguments, or the ideas that they are based on, as propaganda. I know the definition of propaganda is information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause. However because of modern events of the twentieth century, propaganda has picked up a whole slew of negative connotations. It has come to represent false information that is being deliberately distributed to conceal the whole truth from the public. As I don’t refer to scripture or your arguments as “Christian propaganda,” kindly do not refer to my arguments as “homosexual propaganda.”
It took me so long to write that, that you posted again so I'm gonna tack this on at the bottom.
Homosexuality has no benefits for those who partake as you put it. The only thing it gives them is a headache. Also there is no health problem caused by being around a gay person, so that comparison just doesn’t make sense.
People are perfectly willing to take a little offense. However, the more you offend them the less likely they are to listen.
For the last one, just read the appropriate paragraph above again. I don’t feel like repeating myself a third time.
"Balance comes to all things in time. Some make it their duty to tear it apart. It is my duty to balance it out once more."
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