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Originally posted by borntowatch
Homosexuality is a sin according to the bible. It needs to be repented of and stopped if one wishes to be a Christian.
Originally posted by BeforeTooLong
reply to post by arpgme
#1 most ignorant and dumbfounding argument:
But my fictional book tells me it’s bad and that homosexuals will burn in hell.
Riiiiiiiiggggght
Originally posted by kaylaluv
So is cutting your hair, eating shellfish or pork, and wearing clothing with more than 2 kinds of fabrics. I think that pretty much prohibits everyone from being a Christian.
Originally posted by SavedOne
Originally posted by kaylaluv
So is cutting your hair, eating shellfish or pork, and wearing clothing with more than 2 kinds of fabrics. I think that pretty much prohibits everyone from being a Christian.
No, those are mosaic laws laid out for the Jews. Christians were never subject to the mosaic laws. This is a common misconception among atheists ignorant of the true content of the Bible.
I would like to dispute where you get your facts, because I have gotten some different information.
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Approximately 25% of the 5300 individuals Kinsey used were prison inmates, who by the nature of their confinement, couldn’t have heterosexual intercourse. This is never admitted directly, of course, but it is known that 37% of the sample were non-college educated, and that 75% of this group were prisoners. This translates into 1471 inmates out of a total group of 5300, a sample which is supposed to be representative of the American population. Further skewing the results is the fact that 44% of these inmates many of whom were jailed for sex offenses, had “homosexual experiences” while in prison.
In case you were thinking that this is about as bizarre a representative sample as one could conceivably imagine, it gets worse. Kinsey also admitted using “several hundred male prostitutes” in his sample. If all were included, this alone could throw off his ten percent figure by half, or more.
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So if these incongruities discredit Kinsey’s 10% figure, what’s the real truth? It would appear that one to two percent is the actual proportion of homosexual men in a given population, as demonstrated by two recent studies. First, David Forman, senior staff member at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, authored a study in England and Wales between 1984 and 1987 which determined that only 1.7% of his sample had engaged in homosexual intercourse (British Medical Journal 298: 1137-1142, 1989). Second, sexual behavior researcher, Tom Smith of the University of Chicago authored a study two years ago entitled “Adult Sexual Behavior in 1989: Number of Partners Frequency and Risk.” His study resulted in a figure of “less than 1% exclusively homosexual.”
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1988
A study of 5,514 college and university students under the age of 25 found 1% who were homosexual and 1% who were bisexual.[7]
1998
A stratified random sample of 750 males aged 18 to 27 in Calgary, Canada included questions on sexual activity and orientation. 15.3% of men "reported being homosexual to some degree" on the basis of three (often overlapping) measures of homosexuality: (1) voluntary, same-gender sexual contact from age 12 to 27: 14.0%; (2) overlapping homosexual (5.9%) and/or bisexual (6.1%) self-identification: 11.1%; and (3) exclusive (4.3%) and non-exclusive (4.9%) same-gender sexual relationships in past 6 months: 9.2%.[8]
2003
A survey of 135,000 Canadians found that 1.0% of the respondents identified themselves as homosexual and 0.7% identified themselves as bisexual. About 1.3% of men considered themselves homosexual, almost twice the proportion of 0.7% among women. However, 0.9% of women reported being bisexual, slightly higher than the proportion of 0.6% among men. 2.0% of those in the 18–35 age bracket considered themselves to be either homosexual or bisexual, but the number decreased to 1.9% among 35–44 year olds, and further still to 1.2% in the population aged 45–59. Quebec and British Columbia had higher percentages than the national average at 2.3% and 1.9%, respectively.[9]
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2005
HM Treasury and the Department of Trade and Industry completed a survey to help the Government analyse the financial implications of the Civil Partnerships Act (such as pensions, inheritance and tax benefits). They concluded that there were 3.6 m gay people in Britain—around 6% of the total population or 1 in 16.66 people.[15]
2010
A representative survey of 238,206 Britons, exclusive to their categories, found 1% were gay or lesbian and 0.5% were bisexual. A further 0.5% self-identified as "other", and 3% responded as "do not know" or refused to answer.[16]
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Originally posted by BO XIAN
reply to post by kaylaluv
I would like to dispute where you get your facts, because I have gotten some different information.
THE WHOLE TOPIC HAS BEEN SOOOOOO POLITICIZED FOR SOOOOOOOO LONG
THAT IT'S DIFFICULT TO GET ACCURATE DATA--
EVEN FROM SO CALLED PROFESSIONAL RESEARCHERS
--SOME OF WHOM HAVE BEEN CAUGHT COOKING THE BOOKS--
SELECTING DATA OUT THAT ONLY SUPPORTS THEIR BIASES AND AGENDA.
Originally posted by kingofmd
The Creator of everything, whom has absolute authority over His creation, forbids it.
A total of 750 men aged between 18 and 27 were studied. They were asked questions about their sexual activity, as well as whether they identified themselves as homosexual, bisexual or heterosexual.
From the questions about sexual activity, 105 men (14%) said that they have had homosex since age 12. Of these, 65 said their first homosexual experience took place before they were 18 years old.
Homosex since age 12 Number Percent
First experience before age 18 65 8.7%
First experience 18 years & older 40 5.3%
No homosexual experience 645 86.0%
Total interviewed 750 100.0%
Another question focused on current sexual behaviour. 69 of the 750 persons interviewed (9.2%) reported having had homosex in the last six months. Of these 69 persons, 32 of them (4.3%) had exclusively homosexual relationships, while the other 37 (4.9%) had it both ways.
Sexual activity in last 6 months Number Percent
Homosex only 32 4.3%
Both ways 37 4.9%
Total interviewed 750 100.0%
A separate question asked if they identified themselves as homosexual or bisexual:
Self-identification as: Number Percent
Homosexual 44 5.9%
Bisexual 46 6.1%
Total interviewed 750 100.0%
However, there were discrepancies between self-identification and actual sexual behaviour. For example, one man who described himself as heterosexual was having an exclusively homosexual relationship during the preceding six months. Likewise, there were others who were bisexually active, but were still describing themselves as heterosexual.
The researchers made the necessary adjustments to the data, coming to the conclusion that 12.7% (95 out of 750) were bisexual or homosexual.
The interviews were conducted in 1991 and 1992 as part of a broader mental health study. The questions about sexual behaviour and orientation were included because the intention was to see if depression and attempts at suicide were related to these factors.(They were, but that would be digressing from the point of this essay). It was only recently that a fresh look was taken at the data about sexual identification and behaviour by themselves. Hence the delay in publishing the results.
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New research involving over 5 thousand women claims that women who consume amphetamine-based diet pills and thyroid deficiency medication during pregnancy are more likely to produce homosexual offspring. Experts warn women to avoid all possible medication during pregnancy. This reinforces beliefs that genetic and biological factors during early pregnancy influence sexuality.
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“Yalom et al. (1973) studied 20 16-year-old boys of diabetic mothers, who had received estrogen or progesterone during pregnancy. These boys showed less heterosexuality and less masculinity than 20 control boys. Netley and Rovet (1982) showed that among 33 males with 47,XXY syndrome, 24% were nonrighthanded, compared to 10% of a control group. … In the present study, as well as in Lindesay (1987), only homosexual men were studied. In Rosenstein and Bigler (1987) and McCormick et al. (1990), both men and women were studied, and in the latter study, a significant increase in lefthandedness (or rather nonrighthandedness) was obtained for women. This was assumed to be related to higher-than-normal levels of prenatal testosterone levels. In their results, the increase in lefthandedness in homosexual women (which have lower occurrence than men in the general population) is much larger than that of homosexual men. It is, therefore, fair to assume that the increase in testosterone, believed to cause both lefthandedness and homosexuality in women, will give a more pronounced effect in women than in men (p. 184).” (Coates, T. J., Ekstrand, M., and Gotestam, K. O., “Handedness, Dyslexia and Twinning in Homosexual Men,” International Journal of Neuroscience 63(3-4) (1992):179-86.)
“Although numerous researchers have hypothesized a biological factor in the etiology of homosexuality, there is a lack of empirical evidence. Previous investigations did not focus on behavioral functions of the brain. Using neuropsychological testing, we found an increased incidence of left-hand preference (defined as non-consistent right-hand preference) in a group of 32 homosexual women. A trend in the same direction was found in a group of 38 homosexual men. . . .
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Originally posted by arpgme
* What's next, allowing animals to get married!? Where do we draw the line!?
How about we draw the line at two consenting adults agreeing to be married, that sounds fair. It will allow blacks and interracial couples to get married too.
Originally posted by AnswerSeeker2012
reply to post by k1k1to
So, in your opinion. It is natural for a serial killer to start killing small animals for fun at the age of 7 or 8? After all, the killer must have been born that way? YOU ARE AN IDIOT! Common sense tells you when something is natural or not. Homosexual activity is un-natural and wrong. How about bringing up the many former gays that have said the same.
“Human homosexual males report more stressors (such as bereavement) during their mother’s pregnancy than controls (Dorner, Schenk, Schmiedel, and Ahrens 1983).” (S. Baron-Cohen, S. Lutchmaya, and R. Kinickmeyer, Prenatal Testosterone in Mind: Amniotic Fluid Studies (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2004), pp. 11-12.)