Are you qutng your sexualy? Fd out if you’re gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual. Learn what the terms mean and if they apply to you.
Contents:
- AM I GAY?
- WHY GAY IS NOT OK
- THUNR ROSTER CNCH: VETERAN FORWARD RUDY GAY WAIVED
- HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
- HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY
- THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
- HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
- GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
AM I GAY?
* ok im gay *
Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr.
Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc. Mike Haley was gay until almost 10 years ago, when he rejected homosexualy.
WHY GAY IS NOT OK
After beg acquired earlier this month via tra, the Oklahoma Cy Thunr has waived Rudy Gay. * ok im gay *
A youth and genr specialist wh Foc on the Fay, he is now active ex-gay youth mistry, leadg semars around the untry.
After speakg to a group of high school senrs about the damage of viewg homosexualy as a normal, alternative liftyle, I opened up for qutns. But how n we unter arguments for homosexualy whout relyg on Scripture, which our opponents may dismiss as valid?
While I wasn't ready for my Q&A ssn wh the high schoolers, I vowed that I'd learn to prent a biblil view of homosexualy to nonbelievers.
THUNR ROSTER CNCH: VETERAN FORWARD RUDY GAY WAIVED
How do I know if I am gay? Are there fe signs you are gay? We have answers. Consir the signs you might be gay. * ok im gay *
Argument #1: "One of every 10 people is gay. They vised a seven-pot sle that placed exclive heterosexualy and exclive homosexualy at oppose pol, wh bisexualy at the midpot.
Usg this sle, the rearchers averaged figur supportg their claims that 10 percent of mal between the ag of 16 and 55 were more or ls exclively homosexual for at least three years. On March 31, 1993, The Wall Street Journal ran an article tled "Homosexuals and the 10-Percent Fallacy.
HOW TO ACCEPT THAT YOU ARE GAY
Gordon Muir reported that he had found "substantial evince ditg that ls than 5 percent of men and women have had any homosexual ntact their lifetime, and no more than 3 percent of men and nsirably fewer women claim to be bisexual or exclively homosexual.
Dpe the fdgs, some groups ntue to e the 10 percent figure to make homosexualy sound more wispread. Argument #2: "People are born gay.
The latt rearch on this area, published this April Science, uld not reproduce the fdgs of a prev study which had tied homosexual behavr to certa geic patterns. Each of most choose his battl wisely--and I would not die on the sword of a nongeic lk to homosexualy. Even if rearchers were to suggt a heredary tie wh homosexualy, as they have wh alholism, the right tack wh this argument is not to ntend that 's false, but that promot life-threateng behavr.
HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM GAY? SIGNS YOU ARE GAY
Consir the mortaly rat for alholics and homosexuals. Likewise, a recent Cens Bure abstract noted that AIDS aths for gay men the Uned Stat totaled more than 28, 300 1995. " While AIDS is no longer nsired jt a gay disease, s universaly often overshadows the fact that, acrdg to the Centers for Disease Control, "homosexuals ntue to make up the majory of s.
" Consequently, the 1993 fdgs of three rearchers wh the Eastern Psychologil Associatn, quoted by Jefey Satover "Homosexualy and the Polics of Tth" (Baker), should e as no surprise.
THUNR WAIVE RUDY GAY
Satover wr that "they found that the gay male lifpan, even apart om AIDS and wh a long-term partner, is signifintly shorter than that of married men general by more than three s. Though rearchers have yet to prove or disprove a geic lk for homosexualy, they have proven one unniable fact: Homosexualy n be adly.
Argument #3: "Love legimiz homosexualy. " That's why so many people e this logic to support the homosexual viewpot. Unfortunately, many homosexual relatnships do not monstrate one of the key ditors of love: monogamy.
HOW DO I KNOW I’M NOT REALLY GAY/STRAIGHT?
Mattison found that even homosexual men "permanent" relatnships tend to stray more often than heterosexual men: "Y, that wayward impulse is as evable man-to-man affairs as man-to-woman, only, for gays, starts chg faster. In "Straight Answers About Homosexualy for Straight Rears" (Prentice-Hall), David Loovis adms that fily is a problem for male and female homosexuals. This lack of monogamy dit that the "lovg relatnships" scribed by apologists for homosexualy look more like fictn than fact.
GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
After all, God isn't ncerned wh aligng only the thoughts of homosexual advot to His Word.