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October 20, 2005, 10:43 am PDT
 Quote From: maria_44 I was so suprised that Anjela's mother shared the same views as I do. I think she was 100 percent right!
Points she made that I absolutely agreed with:
NO ONE IS BORN GAY--IT IS A CHOICE.
YOU CAN HAVE HOMOSEXUAL FEELINGS BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO ACT ON THEM.
I absolutely agree. I think Anjela was selfish and like her sister, Em said, she wanted to proclaim her sexuality to the world and wanted everyone to be O.K. with that. If you weren't with her, you were against her--no exceptions or gray area. You could tell that she wasn't interested in hearing others out, she just wanted attention.
I've said this before. It does not matter if you were born in "a good Christian home" or an abusive one or anything in between.....your environment had lots to do with who you are now. If you are a gay person, and you think you were born this way, stop trying to justify yourself--it is not true. If you were born into another family in another country perhaps, chances are, you wouldn't be how you are today. It just doesn't depend in what church you grew up in, if any, it depends on so much more-----your exposure to gay people growing up (were you around gay people a lot? did your family have many gay family friends? was a family member gay? or were you completely isolated from gays and forbidden to go near them?), how your parents brought you up to look at gays (did they tell you it was not acceptable? did they tell you it was O.K. because "God made them that way"? did they tell you it was a sin? did they tell you to stay away from them?), or course, your family status (abusive home? divorced parents? only child?).
All these thing put together contribute to who were are.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE---if you have something you'd like to say, if you'd like to debate, if you have objections, PLEASE, reply to this message. I'm not on the computer every day, so if you reply I might not see it until a couple days later.
thanks! your exposure to gay people growing up (were you around gay people a lot? did your family have many gay family friends? was a family member gay? or were you completely isolated from gays and forbidden to go near them?), how your parents brought you up to look at gays (did they tell you it was not acceptable? did they tell you it was O.K. because "God made them that way"? did they tell you it was a sin? did they tell you to stay away from them?), or course, your family status (abusive home? divorced parents? only child?).
All these thing put together contribute to who were are.
Never met a gay person until i was fifteen, and I knew I was gay before then. The family had no gay friends, no gay family members. WHen a friend came out to me in high school and i relaized i experienced those same feelings and could finally put a name on them, i was forbidden to be around her, to the point where I nearly was sent to another school just to ensure I would obey this command. I was told it was not acceptable and I was not "born that way" it was just a phase, that I had to change. My parents had a good relationship and remained married to this day. I was never abuses, raped, molested, etc.
So put that together and that should equal a straight person?
These are all assumptions made about the gay community. They are not true. Making such assumptions about people is called judging, and that is not condoned by the Bible.
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