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Originally Posted by Tex
Adopting a gay lifestyle is a choice. This idea that the Brethren are on board with the not-a-choice-crowd is one of the more pernicious falsehoods propagated on this board, not to mention reflective of rampant wishful thinking.
What the Brethren have said--and I agree with--is that the temptation or weakness of homosexual feelings may be something someone is born with. But they have never acknowledge that a person is "born gay" in the sense you mean it.
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This is the most ridiculous game of semantics. If a man wants to have sex with men and doesn't want to have sex with women, then he is gay. Calling it "same sex attraction" or a "homosexual temptation" like Elder Oaks does doesn't make it something different.
Again, I don't believe you have ever talked to a gay person about this issue. They aren't "tempted" with "homosexual feelings." They are gay.