Originally posted by awake_awoke
I can't simply fathom, nor do I believe, that homosexual behavior is in any way a choice

But that's just your opinion. The majority of people in , say California, believe otherwise. Until there's some science to back it up then it remains a far-stretched theory that it's a genetic trait. That's why I keep saying the homosexual community needs to spend their efforts on research instead of protests.

Originally posted by dbates
It's not the job of the government to ensure your happiness.

Then let's get rid of law enforcement. If murder makes people sad then screw the relatives of a murder victim. If having stuff stolen makes people sad...who cares? It's not the governments job...right.

Government's job is to govern. To what end? To make people miserable?

Quite the opposite.

I do not want the government to become thought police to ensure that an individual "thinks" that they are happy.

Don't worry, that's Big Pharma's job...

There is nothing keeping a homosexual from being happy but their own logical fallacy.

There is nothing about 'feeling' that is logical. Just because I use a term "fallacy" doesn't mean you can use it as well...incorrectly to boot.

If this is the lifestyle you choose knowing that you will be unable to marry, then that's your decision. Yes, I said the choice word. If it could be proven that homosexuality was not a choice,

I could probably prove it, or at the least the liklihood of it's occassional manifestation rhetorically.

Consider that the sperm carries a set of genetic instructions from one individual and the egg contains a set of genetic instructions from another.

It is obvious that one set is "male" instructions and the other is "female".

Remember, physical characteristics aren't the only aspect of a human being that are determined by a parents genetic material.

Now...science is clear that some genes are recessive and some genes are dominant. What happens when a portion of the 'male' instructions are dominant for say physical characteristics and the 'personality' instructions are more dominant from the female?

There is no way that science can predict how the genetic material will manifest in offsrping. The best we can do at this point is reverse engineer. And it is clear...by a priori logic...that no two people are identical.

Ergo...the level of dominant genes expressed in both physical traits and mental/pyschologically inclined traits will always be different; will always not be static. Within the spectrum of varability is that of a male recieving dominant male genes and dominant female genes...

Choice? Really? Someone else brought up this pertinent point...when did you choose how to feel?

Seriously, dbates, I don't mean to come across as harsh...I respect your thoughts and view this exchange as a valuable excercise. But I definitely disagree with you...l

i guess dbates isnt gonna respond to my statement.. oh well i guess i just have to wait to see if anyone else will

Originally posted by MemoryShock

Originally posted by dbates
It's not the job of the government to ensure your happiness.

GOOD point

I'll use it on you

Dbates, it's not the job of the government to ensure your happiness.