Finally, proof that being GAY isn't a CHOICE!

i think egardless of any study or "proof" that mainsteam society will still deem anything "different" as being wrong immoral indecent etc etc yadda yadda blah and you can thank the new religion for the mindset.

I was born as a b@stardess, not exactly my choice. At one time I would have had no future but now it is no big deal and neither is being born homosexual. Get over it folks, there are bigger issues than who someone sleeps with.

You just showed some scientific evidence to what I already knew had to be true. Why in the world would anyone "choose" to be gay given how they are treated in society? they are gay because they are and they are tired of being treated like they are beneath the rest of society. Who can blame them? Sad that we need all this evidence to prove that we should treat people right when all along all we really need to know is to treat people right. I really dont think it matters what causes a person to be gay. If someone needs scientific evidence then that says so much about that person. It says way more than it does about the gay person.

I never did believe people choose to be gay. That's ridiculous. But there are many people who are going to believe that no matter what evidence you present. I'm glad to see that they are building more and more scientific evidence that you are born that way though.

I have to say that I wonder why all of us are not gay then as I have never seen a pregnant woman that was not under a lot of stress from the moment they found out they were pregnant to the time the baby was born

Well, at least it gives me the idea that my brother shouldn't be blamed for him being a gay. Stupid heredity!!

Hi Annie I get angry when People start on the Gay, it is none of their Business, it is not their Life and the Gay People do not discriminate straight People for not being Gay so why can't People leave them to it and let them live their Life It does not matter why they are living their Life's the way they are like we are They are no different from us Then you have the ones saying they are committing a Sin, no they are not what is it that always gets said God made us, ok he did and it means he made us the Way we are so how can it be a Sin, Good on you for putting this here They are People like us and they are nice People

yeah its true that being a gay isn't a choice ,. sometimes we can't really understand them ., there are lots of good looking guys nowadays that are so gay ., so sad to hear that ., i have a crush in our office ., but he is gay ., argh! anyway, thanks for sharing this topic.

To be honest Annie I'm not really sure how true this study would be in my particular case. In order, my mother had a girl, a boy and a boy. I am the middle child. When my mother was 6 months pregnant with my little brother, she discovered my father was having an affair. I would fathom a guess (and I'm sure she would agree) that her third pregnancy was therefore more stressfull than her second. But my little brother did not turn out gay - I did. This kind of runs contrary to this study, does it not? And there was nothing overly stressful about her life when she was pregant with me (aside from... well.. being pregnant LOL.) Even still I never understood why people dont beleive that gay people did not choose to be gay. Every gay person in the world is saying they were born like this. Why is it so hard to believe for some people?? Why would we lie?? To be honest, if being gay was a choice it would be MUCH easier to defend. People are entitled to thier choices. Hell, people choose their religions. No one questions that. So how come its ok for someone to choose to be a Christian, but its not ok for people to choose to be gay?

There are many things in life that we can not fully understand but I feel like we do just need to accept them. It may be a hard thing for many people to do but what else can you do. I don't think it is our place to judge what just is in life. I mean some things can not be controlled and is just natures way. I think that they should still be given the same treatment as anyone else.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. Makes me wonder just how stress contributes. Both of my pregnancies were so stressful I should have ended up gay! lol But seriously, I suppose stress could be a kind of trigger to bringing out latent genetic traits during gestation. That would make more sense to me from a scientific point of view. Whatever the case, the point of your italicized paragraph in your discussion is a mantra we should all live by regardless. Good discussion Annie. You've impressed me.....

Hmmm well I guess my kids might turn out gay then. lol oh well I'll still love them the same if they do. I've known for a while its not a choice for them. I'm romantic asexual. I know for a fact I didn't choose that. It just is. If that can happen to me I'm sure its true for a person who is gay also. I highly doubt a straight person chose to be straight either even though I know there are some that wrongly assume everyone is bi which no we aren't.

I have to say that I never thought that being gay was a choice that people had to make during their lives. I come from a very large extended family and many of my uncles and some of my cousins are gay, for this reason, I always thought that it was something that was programmed into their being. And now, there is finally proof of it. I just hope that this means that eventually the people that give them a hard time about their sexuality will get off of their backs.

I don't think homosexuals need any kind of scientific proof. I think they are proud of what they are and they are most of the times better people than us the "normal" (I put the word "normal" ironically of course). So they have nothing to be jealous of us, in order to prove that it's not their fault for what they are. They have fun and enjoy their lives. Why the hell would they need a scientific proof? The only homosexuals that need such a proof, are the ones that do not feel good about what they are. They are in a state of negation.

THat article is hardly convincing from the glance I took at it. But your post itself doesn't quite make sense. "Stress" during pregnancy clearly has nothing to do with genetic makeup or heriditary traits. Its an outside incident and I'm not sure that its actually true that stress can be anyway conclusively linked to homosexuality in a causal way.

I feel sorry for all who find the need to justify themselves for their destiny at being. NOT meaning any offense to anyone, but just sympathy. I for sure know that being subjected to stress during pregnancy does NOT result in gay inclined off springs, on the contrary results on hyper sensitive and hard tempered character children, but certainly not gay.