When did you choose to be straight?

[Mike the Progressive]

Ha-Satan is a messenger from God and He's Gone Rogue. Starring Helen Hunt as the Virgin Mary, James Franco as Joseph, Jim Caviezel as baby Jesus, and Rob Schneider as Ha-Satan in Ha-Satan I: A Messenger from Hell. A Michael Bay production.

...and a production assistant at Paramount composes a text to his boss..

...and the Seventh Seal is broken.

I'm going to be....livid if some asshole actually makes this and gives me no credit.

[Neutraligon]

Doesn't sound that interesting...

So you would favor making a sequel?

OF course, it will gross big bucks, but the sequel should be even better. Add in a rival and a some massive explosions. Who should play the rival....?

[Mike the Progressive]

So you would favor making a sequel?

OF course, it will gross big bucks, but the sequel should be even better. Add in a rival and a some massive explosions. Who should play the rival....?

Hmm, somebody talented, somebody who got an Oscar, and yet can come relatively cheap *snaps fingers* Forest Whitaker.

[Condunum]

I guess you could kinda go under the one in the middle and... I'll stop there.

We can't just have a-symmetric motorboating?

Or one set of cleavage, then the other?

Or maybe collaborate with a friend. Harmonize.

See if you can do "Dueling Motorboats" on the Mars mutant hooker's boobage.

I'm borderline OCD, so no, it can't be Asymmetrical for me. If I did, I'd have to do it in five sets of four times over the day. Over all, it'd be a good day.

[Straight From Above]

We can't just have a-symmetric motorboating?

Or one set of cleavage, then the other?

Or maybe collaborate with a friend. Harmonize.

See if you can do "Dueling Motorboats" on the Mars mutant hooker's boobage.

I'm borderline OCD, so no, it can't be Asymmetrical for me. If I did, I'd have to do it in five sets of four times over the day. Over all, it'd be a good day.

Maybe she'd give you a volume discount.

[Condunum]

I'm borderline OCD, so no, it can't be Asymmetrical for me. If I did, I'd have to do it in five sets of four times over the day. Over all, it'd be a good day.

Maybe she'd give you a volume discount.

Or perhaps let me have the rest for free, on account of the Anxiety I get if my rituals don't follow a 5 of 4 pattern.

[Artanili Datium]

It's not a choice, and it's not a binary. I didn't choose it.

^that

[Straight From Above]

Maybe she'd give you a volume discount.

Or perhaps let me have the rest for free, on account of the Anxiety I get if my rituals don't follow a 5 of 4 pattern.

Well, unless its a hardship for her, I think its a very reasonable accommodation.

[Grenartia]

I guess you could kinda go under the one in the middle and... I'll stop there.

We can't just have a-symmetric motorboating?

Or one set of cleavage, then the other?

Or maybe collaborate with a friend. Harmonize.

See if you can do "Dueling Motorboats" on the Mars mutant hooker's boobage.

Another quote to be sigged!

[Straight From Above]

Another quote to be sigged!

Maybe they'll include it in the remake.

[Straight From Above]

I know its not technically on topic, but there is a guy on the Colbert Report right now, who said he had a stroke and it turned him gay.

And now Colbert is saying strokes are a choice.

So its sort of on topic.

[Safed]

I know its not technically on topic, but there is a guy on the Colbert Report right now, who said he had a stroke and it turned him gay.

And now Colbert is saying strokes are a choice.

So its sort of on topic.

There was a Welsh Guy on UK TV a few weeks ago saying the same thing, it may be the same guy, but I watched some of it, it was interesting. At the end of the day I wasn't sure if he actually "turned" gay or decided it was a good way to come out, but I think the former may be more likely.

[Straight From Above]

I know its not technically on topic, but there is a guy on the Colbert Report right now, who said he had a stroke and it turned him gay.

And now Colbert is saying strokes are a choice.

So its sort of on topic.

There was a Welsh Guy on UK TV a few weeks ago saying the same thing, it may be the same guy, but I watched some of it, it was interesting. At the end of the day I wasn't sure if he actually "turned" gay or decided it was a good way to come out, but I think the former may be more likely.

Yeah, he sounded like from that side of the pond.

[Katganistan]

It just kinda happened.

[Straight From Above]

It just kinda happened.

That's what you said when three members of Special Branch rappelled through the sky light of the Penthouse of that hotel in Hong Kong, with balaclavas and MP-5s, to find you and the enemy agent you were supposed to kill doing the lambada with four kilograms of soft caramel and an MP3 player full of Marvin Gaye.

[Aluzky]

I have an example that I use to explain people hat is not a choice.

I use food.

You can give some one an apple and a cheery, the person may have never taste those before. HE tastes the apple and things YUCK I don't like how this tastes, then taste the cherry and thinks "this taste is awesome" the person never chose what taste he likes or dislikes, his mind did it, his tongue did it, his body was programed to dislike apple and like cherry, he can't come the next day and taste an apple and chose to find it tasty, he will stink think it tastes like crap. What you find tasty is not a conscious choice, same goes for sexual orientations and sexual addons.

I use food as an example, because heterosexuals who don't have other orientation can't related to other sexual orientations, but if you use food as an example, that is something anyone can relate too and understand.

Feel free to use my example if you ever want to explain some one that it is not a choice.

[SaintB]

I chose to be straight when I realized that being all bendy hurt my back.

I get the feeling that is not what the OP title was talking about though.

[Tlaceceyaya]

I have an example that I use to explain people hat is not a choice.

I use food.

You can give some one an apple and a cheery, the person may have never taste those before. HE tastes the apple and things YUCK I don't like how this tastes, then taste the cherry and thinks "this taste is awesome" the person never chose what taste he likes or dislikes, his mind did it, his tongue did it, his body was programed to dislike apple and like cherry, he can't come the next day and taste an apple and chose to find it tasty, he will stink think it tastes like crap. What you find tasty is not a conscious choice, same goes for sexual orientations and sexual addons.

I use food as an example, because heterosexuals who don't have other orientation can't related to other sexual orientations, but if you use food as an example, that is something anyone can relate too and understand.

Feel free to use my example if you ever want to explain some one that it is not a choice.

A similar one was devil's advocated because peoples' tastes do change. But in its non-iterated form, it is a great analogy.

[Romatticus]

Of course they all choose to be gay! What a wonderful lifestyle, being treated with disdain, looked down on by zealots and all the other homophobic crazies! I mean, I assume all gays are secretly straight, but choose to have sex with men (no matter how much they hate it) just to stick it to the Man.

Ok for realz though:

1) Sexual attraction is brought on by hormones. You can't decide what turns you on. Just as we all have our fetishes and turn-on, and you can only find out what you like by experimenting.

2) There are plenty of homosexuals. It would be irrational to believe that all of them actually choose to be with men whilst secretly wanting to be with women. I can't stand the thought of intercourse with a sweaty, hairy man. Why the hell would I subject myself to something I don't like? Homosexuals have relations with the same gender because they are attracted to them naturally.

3) If you understand that it is natural, but still object to it on religious grounds, how does that make sense? How can something be a sin if you are born with it? Are you supposed to deny yourself love, even if it hurts no one?

[Individual Impersonators]

When did you choose to be straight?

Good question. I know that I choose to sleep with women and emotions towards people can be changed over time due to educational/social circumstances.

For example, I do not believe anyone is born racist. But its not as if they wake up one day and they are racist. It takes a long period of education (or lack of it) and social circumstances to make a person racist.

Prehaps there is a long period of social circumstances that can make an individual gay.

No one starts off with a phobia as well. But at some point they may start becoming uncontrolably afraid of clowns, spiders or even long words.

For sexual preferences I doubt anyone starts off with a foot fetish as a child. There are some parts of the brain that are supposivly linked and over time a new sexual preference/fetish may go.

The Christian point of view is that sleeping with the same gender is wrong because there is still a choice there. If you are straight, you are not forced to sleep with radom women. As a choice though, I support it.

The feeling of homosexuality as such is not wrong, acting upon it is. Quite unreasonable to expect large numbers of people not to act upon an emotion but if I was going to go through all the double standards of relgion, my keyboard would break before I am finished.

Emotions and feelings are complex to say the least.
There is no simple answer.

I could not really care if someone is gay or not. I do not believe emotions are completely uncontrolable but on the same token I do believe there is a full choice.

[Individual Impersonators]

I have an example that I use to explain people hat is not a choice.

I use food.

You can give some one an apple and a cheery, the person may have never taste those before. HE tastes the apple and things YUCK I don't like how this tastes, then taste the cherry and thinks "this taste is awesome" the person never chose what taste he likes or dislikes, his mind did it, his tongue did it, his body was programed to dislike apple and like cherry, he can't come the next day and taste an apple and chose to find it tasty, he will stink think it tastes like crap. What you find tasty is not a conscious choice, same goes for sexual orientations and sexual addons.

I use food as an example, because heterosexuals who don't have other orientation can't related to other sexual orientations, but if you use food as an example, that is something anyone can relate too and understand.

Feel free to use my example if you ever want to explain some one that it is not a choice.

Ever thought of aquired tastes? Most people do not like coffee, alcohol or cigarettes at first, but after a bit of practice things change.
Taste buds change over time and foods that one previously do not liked can eventually be liked. A decision on the day is not going to change the preference of food, but overtime one may accidentally change it.

[Bordurian]

Never chose. God just made me this way.

[Retro Lyra]

I wasn't aware I chose my sexuality.

[Grenartia]

Never chose. God just made me this way.

Just as he made me bisexual.

If they're going to strip away the civil rights of a minorty then they get no peace in my book.

Personally, I think we should draw directly from Dr. King's book on civil rights.

I.E., peaceful civil disobedience

Of course, it needs to be adapted for the LGBT rights movement.

Bernice King calling for a constitutional ban on same-sex marraige doesn't really help either, plus sullies the work of her father.

Indeed, though her mother and older sister have the right idea.

[Raeyh]

Just as he made me bisexual.

If you are bisexual, you are capable of being straight as anyone else. I could understand people who don't find women attractive, such as homosexuals, but why wouldn't you chose a monogamous relationship with a woman?