Would you except homosexuality if it was proven to be in the genes or a learned behavior?

Actually they have already disproven the hormone level idea...so that's off the table.

As far as proving whether it's in the genes or not I don't think will ever be proven completely.

Just like handed-ness has never been proven to be genetic...it's simply a widely accepted theory.

I know who I am, I know who I am attracted to, I know that I have always been this way and that my attractions were not formed from any type of traumatic event or environment.

I'm perfectly ok with myself...if others can't deal...that's their issue...not mine.

Homosexuality is not a learned behavior. Sexual orientation is a genetic trait. On the other hand a gay lifestyle or any other type of social expression including the sexual act itself is learned. You could be a homosexual all your life without having experienced a single homosexual physical encounter. It is a matter of feelings rather than actions although for the legal part of it (army wise etc) is the other way around. I work as a psychotherapist and I can assure you that if people could get rid of their guilty trips, mostly impose by false religious concepts lacking the love that should had been their essence to begin with, the world would be in a much better shape

A person's sexual orientation doesn't matter to me. It doesn't change the person nor does it defined them. I'm lesbian, and I think that even if all of that was true, I'm not saying it isn't but if it proven, I don't think it change how people feel.

I mean, the person could still blame it on who ever influenced the homosexual. And if it were in the genes, then they could say it's bad blood or blame the parents or something like that.! And if it has anything to do the mother's womb, then they're going to start acting sexist 'N' blame the mother herself.

All 'N' all how do these 'studies' help any? I, personally, feel it would make matters worse rather then help. If these people can't 'except' things or people for what they are already, then how are scientists going to help???

Edit: My point is, if they hate now, then they'll hate later. Yes, most of the time the one thing thrown at me is, "God made one man and one woman. Not two men or two women.". But that's religion, why would they listen to scientists? Why would they care? Science is science but god is god to those people. And just like I said, if anything you know as well as I do that haters will think of something to blame. I'M not the one saying this, the haters WILL be! They're trash the person's blood, the person's family, the people he or she grow up around. Which STILL leads back to the parents letting their child hang around those people.

I'm looking at this from a different point of view, I'm giving you my opinion, I'm telling what I see, how I see things or at least this, particular thing. If you don't want other people's opinions then why are you asking for them??? (I'm not trying to sound rude, I'm just saying)...

LOL, you are aksing the LGBT community if we will accept homosexuality? Yes, sure, being gay, I will accept it regardless of the fact it IS in my genes, or in that hunk next door's jeans.

*Edit: And you think the bashers will give you honest answers here, or anywhere? Hatred in such people cannot be easily weeded out.

OK, I'm straight, and I'll answer your question.

I happen to know LOTS of gay men. In fact, I don't even know any STRAIGHT men anymore who aren't married, so this has created a big problem in my life, but that's beside the point!

A small number of the gay men I know DO seem to have a genetic predisposition. These are the ones who grew up in traditional households, were NOT molested as children, have straight siblings, and yet, turned out gay ANYWAY! These guys I find easier to accept, and indeed, some of them say they would change it if they COULD. I sympathize with them, and believe their orientation is truly beyond their control.

But to my experience, MOST gay men just use that old "born that way" excuse to justify their perversion. MOST of them WERE molested by other males growing up, often since they were infants. It is all they knew as small children, and ASSUME that it was "inborn". They REFUSE to even CONSIDER the advantages of changing their ways, and are extremely defensive about their "lifestyle". They wouldn't change if someone offered them a fool-proof means to do so, which leads me to the conclusion that it IS a free-will CHOICE that most of them make! In such cases, I find "acceptance" more difficult. What they do is a compulsion, and they see NOTHING WRONG in perpetuating the cycle. If things keep on the way they're going, there won't be any straight men LEFT.....and this would suit the "gay community" JUST FINE!!!!!!!!

Also.....it is patently ABSURD to compare gayness to, say, what color eyes a person has, or if someone is left or right-handed! Gay is a BEHAVIORAL characteristic!!!

I don't really care what anyone says, I know I didn't choice to be gay. The only thing I choose was to not be in the closet, and to live my life the best way possible. There are people who are gonna have their beliefs regardless of what science says, so the best thing you can do is ignore the haters, and just be you.

In my case I was born to straight parents, was raised in a very strict, straight society and never heard of gay people, but I knew I was gay since I can remember.

Neither. Or both. What difference does it make?

Again and again, homosexuality seems to follow the same pattern as left-handedness. There is hardly anything you can say about the one that isn't also true of the other.

I do not think it matters one way or the other. When we are talking about 2 consenting persons of legal age then it should not matter (period)

Do we alienate and deny rights to people that have blue eyes instead of brown eyes? Do we alienate and deny rights to people that drive Fords instead of Chevys. Do we alienate and deny rights to people that eat at Wendys instead of Mcdonalds?

No, just as I don't accept other abnormal behaviors one may be genetically prone to....such as alcoholism, violence, sex addiction etc.

Because one has abnormal same sex feelings doesn't mean it is right to act on them just as it is not right for the other genetically prone conditions noted.

I accept them as people but I don't agree with their chosen behavior.

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