Religion and LGBT people

[Ryantology]

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.

I wonder, did you also make conscious choices about what features of a person attract you? Did you decide, one day, that you like big boobs? Did you see a blonde and go "I have decided that I do not find blonde hair attractive?".

Nobody makes choices in a vacuum, so tell me: when you made your choice to like girls, what lay behind that choice? Did you carefully consider other options before you settled with heterosexuality? Is that choice immutable, or might you one day decide to be attracted to men as well?

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.

I choose the label by which I identify myself because I feel it describes me better than gay or straight, but this does not mean I choose to whom I am attracted. The very idea that a person can 'choose' to be attracted to anything strikes me as magnificently absurd.

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

There is vastly more incentive to pretend to be straight than to pretend not to be.