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The Surprising Truth About Homosexuality: Voddie Baucham's View

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Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-24 06:59|| || Front Page|| [254 views ] Top

#1 According to Wikipedia, the doctorate is in Baptist ministry.

He’s right that for at least some people, homosexuality is a choice. For others, possibly not — it seems to me we don’t know enough about either biology or psychology to say definitively. Faith is often described as taking a leap exactly because it skips over the need for external proofs.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-05-24 08:27|| 2024-05-24 08:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Just two questions. Regardless of the metaphysics or "science" on the issue, is homosexuality necessary or essential to the continuance of the human race? Why does the left have a maniacal need to promote homosexuality?

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-24 08:35|| 2024-05-24 08:35|| Front Page Top

#3 ^Why the need to flood their countries with 3rd word immigrants? The need to destroy education?

Posted by Grom the reflective 2024-05-24 08:38|| 2024-05-24 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 A doctorate in theology, I suppose.

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-24 08:51|| 2024-05-24 08:51|| Front Page Top

#5 It is true that we haven't identified a gay chromosome. It is also true that no event identified that effects 'in the womb' to make a person gay.

Those facts do not, however, lead to the conclusion that homosexuality is a choice or that it doesn't exist.

Our knowledge of this subject is limited because human psychology is so complex.

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-05-24 09:26|| 2024-05-24 09:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Just one question for me - why are all of the French post-Enlightenment philosophers (Satre, Balzac, Proust, Foucault) gay? Ima gonna say it's a Paris / Sorbonne thing, but what do I know?

Posted by Raj 2024-05-24 09:34|| 2024-05-24 09:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Wouldn't have a sorbonne if they weren't sticking it in the wrong place.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-24 09:43|| 2024-05-24 09:43|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ *rimshot*

literally

Posted by Frank G 2024-05-24 09:52|| 2024-05-24 09:52|| Front Page Top

#9 The 'born that way' argument is a double edged sword. If true, then it's potentially 'curable.' In other words, whatever is happening genetically or in the womb can potentially be altered to produce a different outcome.

Posted by Angstrom 2024-05-24 13:02|| 2024-05-24 13:02|| Front Page Top

#10 M. Murcek I need a new keyboard.

Posted by Deacon+Blues 2024-05-24 13:35|| 2024-05-24 13:35|| Front Page Top

#11

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-05-24 14:10|| 2024-05-24 14:10|| Front Page Top

#12 It is clearly contrary to conventional biologic propagation of the species, so why does it persist? There must be a reason.

Posted by Glenmore 2024-05-24 14:22|| 2024-05-24 14:22|| Front Page Top

#13 The Bible tells us it was going on way back when. After the Fall, all manner of unfortunate human behavior began and is with us still.

The argument that something has historically occurred is not a legitimate argument that it should occur.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-24 14:27|| 2024-05-24 14:27|| Front Page Top

#14 #12 There are a dozen of theories. My favorite one: heterozygote advantage. For example: if you have two gene alleles (one from each parent) for sickle cell, you die. But if you have one sickle cell allele and one normal - you're immune to malaria.
So, imagine (it's just a hypothesis) there are two different alleles in the same genetic locus: G & H. GG = gay. HH = hetero, GH makes you more attractive (possibly to both genders).

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-05-24 14:39|| 2024-05-24 14:39|| Front Page Top

#15 p.s. We do know that the tendency influenced by population density.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-05-24 14:51|| 2024-05-24 14:51|| Front Page Top

#16 It is also a fact that frivolous or decadent behavior is more readily practiced and tolerated in prosperous societies.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-24 14:55|| 2024-05-24 14:55|| Front Page Top

#17 "Idle hands"....and all of that.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-05-24 15:22|| 2024-05-24 15:22|| Front Page Top

#18 It could be a variation of the grandmother theory that applies to later children in a family who get less investment in their raising than earlier children. Which would be consistent with it being conserved by social/genetic inheritance over generations, even though it is not helping either the grandmothers nor the later children.

But no one is saying that, so it is probably true.

Posted by rammer 2024-05-24 22:21|| 2024-05-24 22:21|| Front Page Top

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