Re: TV or his therapist turned my son gay.

This is classic Corinthian posting, but it also points out the struggle that so many endure with their gay children. It always facinates me that people say, "oh my son got his smarts from my grandfather" or "Everone on my husband's side of the family loves Onions." Yet with sexual tendencies they think it must be society's fault.

Is society trying to make people gay? Why would "society" do that? Isn't this a "Christian" nation? If so then it is a Christian society!

But anyone who approaches the topic of gay-hatred by Christians dispassionately, sees that scriptural justifications natural Science justifications are not logically sound. The fact is that gay-hatred is an emotional condition...a disorder and obession.

Do gays live shorter lives of increased misery? Maybe. I would argue so do Military men and their families. Nor is it clear that gays do in fact live shorter lives. What is the source of those statistics? Also many gays decide later in their lives to "go straight" or to become celibates or something of the sort and live like any other person.

The gay-straight division is an over-simplification of sexuality. After all look at how diverse the sexual urge is. Some men and women like sex, others are frigid. These are conditions that people appear to not "choose". Some men like big boulders, others like dainty ladies. Again, not fetishes they seem to choose. So sexuality has many aspects that are not "chosen".

I don't know that gays should wrap their lives around their sexuality though. I myself could be called gay and live with a same-sex partner, but I don't consider myself gay in a cultural sense. Life is not about sex and pleasure. Yes it might be disappointing to not indulge your urges but as you get older this becomes an act of neccessity anyway. I think that the impulse to play around and be indulgent is youthful and beautiful, but whether you are gay or straight, such indulgence cannot continue in perpetuity. At some point you have to live for some other reason. Perhaps you do want a family, or you want to be an artist, or you want to be a CEO, or a minster, these things take effort and commitment and you are more likely to succeed if you are not worried about indulging sexually (gay or straight).