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“I’m born gay”. Have you ever heard this said? I have and it doesn’t mean what you think it does, or what they think it does too. Do not be fooled by this argument, it is attempting to “trick” you into sympathizing and using your emotions to judge and not your head. What they are saying is this: “I am born gay, I cannot help how I am born, it is out of my choice, thus who are you to judge how I was born?” or “If I am born this way, it must be ok”. Both of these really, truly miss the point, and I can point that out with a simple analogy. What if I told you I was born a murderer? What if I had the murder’s DNA code? I can’t help it, that’s how I was born. So, then it must be ok for me to murder, and you cannot say its not, because this is how I was born.

Do you guys see the problem with that? What if I take it farther and say that I have the gay murder’s DNA code? Would that be ok? What if I have the gay hater’s gene? Would that be ok? According to the “I’m born gay” argument, all these would be ok.

What this really comes down to, is people do not want to be responsible for their actions, they want to excuse them away and blame them on someone else “God made me this way, I can’t help it” they will say to us, but don’t buy it, not for a second. Either people are excused of their actions because they were born a certain way, and are then just mechanical machines who only do what they are programed to do, thus they have no moral responsibility, or else people are moral machines who actually have a moral choice, and if they have a choice it is still a real choice even if they are predisposed to a choice. What makes people morally responsible for their actions is that they have the ability to make that choice or not make that choice. Responsibility has nothing to do with if you want to make the choice or not, but just can you.

For example lets say you really like sex, and you prefer it to everything else. Now when faced with the choice to have sex with a really hot attractive person, or not, what will you choose probably every time? Well sex of course, but does this mean you are not morally responsible now? Of course not, you are still morally responsible because you were not forced into having sex, and could of, if you wanted to (key word) not have had sex, but you did because its what you really, really wanted.

So it is the same for every person, we are moral creatures who do what we really, really want, but that doesn’t mean we can do what we don’t want to do, it just means we won’t do what we don’t want, because its not what we want, and we only do what we most want to do, and unless that what we don’t want to do becomes what we want to do we will not do it. In other words we only do what we most want to do in every circumstance. So it is the same for homosexuals and everyone. Who cares what you were born as, you still have a choice, even if it is a choice that you do not want to take. You have either moral responsibility, or you don’t. This pro Gay argument wants to argue that gays don’t have a choice, and thus are not morally responsible for their actions, but they want to hold you morally responsible for your response to their choice, a double standard at best.

You know what gay people, the Bible says you are no different than I, it just uses slightly different terms than you do. The Bible says we are ALL born into sin, we all have some or all of these following genes: gay, thief, liar, murder, lust, selfishness, greed, sloth, ect, ect. Does this mean we are to all act in that way? Are all people born with the desire to murder, to do so? Or how about the liars, or the greedy, or the lustful, or the adulterer, or the violent, should they all just do what they want to do, or should they have some self restraint? I want to lie, cheat, and steal, to sleep around and what not too, I desire the opposite sex as much as you desire the same sex does this mean I should just sleep with all of them? What if homosexuality was considered right and heterosexuality was wrong, would then I be able to argue, hey man I was born this way, would you accept this argument?

In the end we are all born sinners, we are all born wanting to do bad things, so it really doesn’t matter what we are born like, what matters is what we do with our base desires. If we desire bad things and do them, well then we are sinners, just because a desire is really strong, or we are born with a desire, doesn’t mean we ought to follow that desire. Besides thats why Jesus died, because our father Adam cursed us all when he sinned, and we also fell just like him in our rebelion towards God, and only Jesus the God Man could save His creation from OUR sins, the ones we were born with and the ones we did on our own.

I saw we are moral creatures who have moral responsibilties, if we were machines, well you cannot complain about my behavior because it was how I was programed. You were programed to be gay, I was programed to think gay is wrong, no one wins, no one is right. However, if we are moral creatures with moral responsiblities well then one of us is right and one is wrong, or we are both wrong. That means if you think being gay is ok, you must argue for it in some other way than just saying you were born that way, because that argument holds no water.

My goal in this article isn’t to prove the rightness or wrongness of gayness, but to just argue that the “gay gene” or being “born gay” holds no moral weight in determining if gay is ok.