Quote:For someone who is giving out about people twisting arguments and being close minded,you are quite adept at twisting arguments and being close minded.


First off my views on gay people is based on people I grew up with/went to school with or met in college. Your not the only person alive to converse with gay people,despite your assertion that anyone with a different view to you clearly has no interaction with gay people.


Secondly I didn't say its the only reason a person is gay,some people are born gay and some people become gay over time,some people are straight for years then become gay. Its a matter of both nature and nurture. For instance there was a group of people in my school years ago,boys and girls,they were all straight from around 12-17/18 and then one by one they all started to come out as gay/lesbian. The whole group all 8 of them. Their social structure was predominantly gay and one by one they became gay,after being all mostly straight. All sound people but I would wager that not all of those people would become gay if you put them in different social groups in school. That's just one example I can give you.

It has become trendy for some people (especially women) to experiment with homosexuality around the age they head off to college. A lot of the women I knew who did were doing so because of pressures from hetero males trying to satisfy a fantasy. Is it possible this group of people were experimenting due to these pressures or is it possible these people were harboring these feelings all along, but waited to express them until they felt more secure in doing so (i.e. - away from their parents)? If you tell me all of these people were also very active in theater I think that is a red herring. I knew plenty of "straight" kids in high school who came out in college. I wouldn't call it a byproduct of their environment in any respect other than being away from their parents whose judgment they fear the most. What you describe is not an unheard of phenomenon.

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