Homosexuality

Homosexuality, transgender, pansexual, asexual, demisexual, bisexual, heterosexual, sex, and chromosomes. Why is “chromosome” in that list? Well, because sexual orientation and your sex is determined by chromosomes.

For the longest time, and sadly some still today, believed that one “chooses” their sexual orientation. That everyone was naturally born straight and some simply decided to be gay, transgender, or something else. Thanks to modern science we are proving this myth false. No one “chooses” their sex or sexual orientation. Chromosomes do that in the second trimester of development inside of the womb. In fact, not only do chromosomes decide on these two factors, but the existence of a “gay gene” also makes it more likely for chromosomes to make someone’s sexual orientation other than straight. While the gene for being heterosexual is more dominant, it appears that the genes for other sexual orientations (or at least the gene that affects the change on chromosomes) is becoming predominant. This is possibly just due to how genetics have been passed down, or the fact that with more people accepting gays it has allowed these people to be more open and therefore why we may be seeing “more” gays than before.

It is foolish to think that someone would “choose” to be something so hated all due to misinterpretation of the Bible and simple ignorance. Even today gays and transgenders are being stoned to death, abused, and harassed across the globe. Many in the LGBT community often commit suicide due to the abuse, bullying, or parents who refuse to accept them. It is beyond terrible to imagine how parents could hate a child simply for how they are born. Something I still have a hard time understanding with my own parents. This is just another of MANY reasons to test humans before allowing them to breed.

Sadly, many seem to believe that God is against gays when the exact opposite is true. No where in the Bible does God condemn gays or gay love as being “sinful.” The verses often quoted actually condemn the acts of lust as sinful, not being gay. Just as God actually promotes us to live a vegan lifestyle, He also wants us to love everyone despite the way they were born, and to also be responsible parents to our children which includes using birth control, not abusing children, and being healthy. The links below share more information regarding God’s love for gays.

Further evidence that being non-straight is natural and acceptable to God is the fact there are over 400 other non-human species who have gay and/or transgender individuals. From lions, baboons, gorillas, dogs, bears, elephants, rhinos, lions, horses, bovines, pigs, cats, whales, lizards, and the list just goes on and on. One of the most popular gay non-human animal couple is of these gay penguins. Humans are animals, and it’s clear that all of us don’t have the choice for our sexual orientation just as we don’t have a choice for our sex or species.

Another animals to talk about are whiptailed lizards. Now, a long time ago male whiptailed lizards possibly existed, but how they died out is unknown. What is known is that all the whiptailed lizards today are female. They reproduce by having lesbian sex, and the one who is bottom ends up laying eggs. The eggs carry clones of her, and the cycle continues. This is different from hermaphrodites, which is the third sex. Hermaphrodites are BOTH male and female or naturally change it without the need of surgery. Worms, slugs, and turbellarias are examples of hermaphrodites who are both male and female their entire life. Clownfish, parrotfish, some types of frogs, and many other animals start as either male or female but then change into another sex later in life. The reasons for the sex change is due to either simply reaching a certain age, lack of a certain sex in the species, or due to extreme circumstances.

Hating LGBT people is just like hating people of color, for they didn’t have a choice in their skin pigment. Sexual orientation is part of the brain which we have no control over who it wants us to love. Sex is dealing with the body, thus there are the three: Male, female, and hermaphrodite. Regarding transgenders, that is when the brain belongs to one sex but the body is of another sex. There are slight differences between male and female brains, and again this is nothing someone can “choose.” It’s connected to genes and chromosomes.