As for being "gay"....

[Featherbop]

Attractions, although, at very starting, may be pointed towards the normal, gay, or perhaps both, or none. This is at most, nothing important to the real issue. Forget topics this is all issue with these ideas. Can a human person choose what they do? If anyone has any useful skills of logical, and I do proclaim, tried, tested, and truthful realities, then there is the one answer: Yes. It is impossible to logically disagree. I know many will illogically disagree also, but that is to be expected.

The normal inclination to something is present at the beggining of course. This is not to say whether this concludes the idea of the crrect or wrong, or evil of the inclination, or I should say, results of inclination. Do I need to say again, irrelevant. Some people, although few, are inclined to commit horrible atrocities. These acts are of evil, and are neither evil nor good based on inclination. This is irrefutably correct. It is "good" to be different, but, when we wade into the mud of this issue, the same approach and understanding is very different.

Attractions, inclinations can be controlled, and also, annialated. I have tested this many times, and so have you. Just, it has only been used on tiny levels. You may not realize how you train your mind. You need to realize that you can, and more importantly, that you DO. Doing this many times may appear insignificant, but it is larger than what you may wantv to beleive. No brainwashing is required, just self control, and sensibility. The mind has power, but its body does not weild such abilities. Use it well.

All of the above I am irrefutably confident in. Even in the urge to respond to the "refuters" of the irrefutable can be controlled. :robot:

 

[PastorFreud]

Sure, you can choose what you do within certain limits. You can't choose an option you don't know about, for example. In regards to heterosexuality, you could choose to NEVER act on your attractions and be celibate. You could choose to marry one partner, or two, or three in places where that is allowed. You could marry a 14 year old in some countries. You could not marry a 16 year old in others. Our ideas of what is right and wrong don't come from our attractions.

In some cultures, you could marry your distant cousin. But in others, this would be a mortal sin. In an island culture that is very conservative, sex is believed to be evil and only for procreation. You use a sheet with a hole in it so that you do not touch the body of the other more than necessary. In an African culture that has been isolated for many years, young men were expected to sleep with several partners, sometimes in the same night, before choosing one to mate with for life. After mating, however, the young man is expected to be faithful to one woman only. Our ethics are influenced by a great many factors. One of those factors for Christians is how they read the Bible. And historically Christians have had widely divergent views based more on culture than anything else.

 

[evanman]

I do not believe that we can choose who we are atracted to--or, as I understand the question, choose if we will be attracted to another.

What we can do is choose how to act on the attraction.

There are many forms of attraction--not every form has to be sexual.

I am attracted by all sorts of things, doesn't mean I will choose to indulge my senses.

 

[Highlander]

Most certainly, definately, absolutely, irrefutably, yes.

How? Please explain that.