Re: The Religious Rights' Unreal Understanding of Homo***uality:

On Sun, 11 May 2008 07:41:01 -0600, Nicklas@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

>On Sun, 11 May 2008 01:41:42 GMT, "Jeff Strickland"
><crwlr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>You can't change an immutable trait (you are what you are).  Dobson
>>thinks homo***uality is not immutable, but rather chosen.  And since
>>it is chosen, you can choose not to be gay.  That's unreal.
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>><JS>
>>Dr. Dobson is not unique in that belief.
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>>He merely vocalizes that which many people believe.
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>>I believe that what Dr, Dobson has said isn't that you choose to not be
gay, 
>>he says you choose to be gay. The natural state of being is to not be
gay, 
>>therefore this would come without a choice. The choice, Dr, Dobson would

>>say, is to violate the natural state of being, and choose to be gay.
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>It isn't a "natural state" to have a genetic code that
>predisposes toward obesity, parkinsons, or
>osteo-arthristis.
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>But when it happens, it's not a "choice"
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>Genetic coding is such in humans that hunger, fear, and
>***ual drives (but not limited to)  are built in---and
>not choice.
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>You can chose not to eat---which not doing so will
>cause death
>
>Dobson and other nutjobs like him are simplistic,
>****wits that reduce all things to religious moral crap
>that has little to do with reality.

Dobson has decided that we should ignore anything that has been learned
since science was invented. He teaches 'traditional' morality and
'traditional' explanations about culture and survival. His behavior,
whether motivated by evil or not, leads to evil results. No Christian
should ever listen to his advice. It hurts people.