Religion and LGBT people

[John V]

So, the fact that 60% of gay adults didn't self-identify as gay as adolescents indicates that people are not necessarily born with a fixed sexual identity.

Or, it indicates that not everyone fully realizes their sexual identity as early as adolescence. It also indicates that the significant prejudice against non-traditional sexuality, and in some cases the legitimate danger of identifying as such, can make it much more difficult for a person to admit their own sexuality. To both, I would cite my own experience. I had bisexual urges as early as 13, but I had to live as many years again before I was able to admit it to myself, much less anybody else--even in confidence. I was raised by a homophobe, and I was myself a homophobe into my 20s. I chose to stop being homophobic, but I did not choose to be bisexual, and I find it insulting when people insist that it is a choice. To that, I'll repeat Esquilax's question: When did you choose to be straight?

I'll repeat my answer: during adolescence and early adulthood. Really, though, I think a bi-continuum paradigm is a more accurate reflection of human sexuality than the gay/bi/straight paradigm.

BTW, why do you say you're bisexual? Read the study - plenty of people with attraction to both sexes or having sex with both sexes self-identify as gay or straight.

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You can't make any conclusions about genetics based on data that's cultivated via self reporting. You can only make subjective, after the fact conclusions.

What do you base the position that people are born gay on, if not their self-reports?