I can perhaps choose an ice cream flavour over another one that I would have preferred more and still enjoy it, but my preference won't have changed one bit.
I could choose to be a thief but I don't want to, so I'm not.
I could choose to engage in gay sex but I don't want to, so I don't.
None of this alters what is innately preferred but I'll say that it would take considerably more inducement for me to participate in gay sex than it would to eat my least favourite ice cream flavour, and I wouldn't or perhaps couldn't enjoy it. :nono:
I was talking about Francis Collins earlier which was a reference to a post I made earlier in this thread regarding identical twins:
http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showpost.php?p=4117867&postcount=3210
I'll presume here you are not gay. I suspect that for religious reasons you don't actually want there to be a genetic element to homosexuality and are trying to convince yourself that homosexuality is an evil choice. Perhaps you even feel virtuous because you chose to be straight?
But I don't think you had too much difficulty at all, right?
Perhaps you might want to do your own research to bring to the table?
My own secular pov suggests to me at least that Darwinian evolution would not have produced two genders with a different sexual apparatus and then allow sexual attraction to be a conscious choice in humans, when clearly other life is incapable of making any such considered choices.
Choosing my least favourite regular ice cream is at the other end of my ice cream spectrum. The ice cream I actually chose need not be my favourite of course, so why would I not choose my favourite if all things were equal?
I may not be sure which of the regular flavours was my particular favourite without trying them all, given that just looking probably won't help?
But somehow, I at least just knew innately what sexually attracted me, I think it was originally in an old copy of Playboy I once found iirc. :think: