Genetic Homosexuality

As crazy as it sounds, when I was only ten or eleven years old, I remember having an argument with my father at the dinner table one night defending homosexuals and lesbians. How I even knew anything about the subject at that age is beyond my understanding, but somehow I was convinced that hormones caused people to be gay and that those who were homosexual had no choice in their feelings. It wasn't anything that I was told, it was something I believed deep inside. I reflected on how I was attracted to other people and applied that situation to all situations of attraction to other people. Obviously I didn't choose who I was attracted to, so how could anyone else? I grew up having a deep sympathy for those who might be gay and not want to be but couldn't help it.

In my early twenties I felt a sense of calling from God asking for a more intimate relationship with Him. I began taking Bible studies at church and reading the Bible. Although none of the classes ever touched on homosexuality, the more I read the Bible and learned who God was, the more I realized how wrong I was about homosexuality growing up. It suddenly became clear to me that homosexuality was caused by something other than what was on the inside. My best guess was that the Devil created homosexuality, to trick people in to believing they were a different sexual orientation than what they were created to be.

I happened to be reading People magazine just recently, specifically an article about Candis Cayne, a transgender who was born a male but switched genders as a young adult. The interesting thing about her--or him--was that he was born with an identical twin brother who was a heterosexual male. If genetics played a part in homosexuality, then why would an identical sibling with the same genetic coding have opposite sexual orientation?

I researched on the Internet and two very interesting articles, http://www.narth.com/docs/studyseeks.html and http://www.mygenes.co.nz/Ch12.pdf explain how the most recent scientific studies have concluded that homosexuality and sexual orientation is not encoded in genetics but is more influenced by outside environmental factors, and that sexual orientation is very fluid and alterable. It also states that many homosexuals have suddenly become heterosexual, especially after certain emotional needs have begun to be met by the same sex person that might not have been being met before during times of homosexuality.

This is only more evidence to me that the Bible, although one of the oldest books in the World, is not out dated and is very relevant to scientific data still yet to be discovered. The Bible emphasizes importance on relationships with our parents of each sex, and it is now being discovered that those relationships effect how sexual orientation can change and alter what the "natural" selection should be, especially when those relationships are not healthy in the way that they could be.