| | [[File:70810564 64d3a67932.jpg|alt=Causes of homosexuality|right|275px|thumb|Homosexuality is rare in [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jews]]. For more information please see: [[Religious Upbringing and Culture Affects Rates of Homosexuality]].]] | | [[File:70810564 64d3a67932.jpg|alt=Causes of homosexuality|right|275px|thumb|Homosexuality is rare in [[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox Jews]]. For more information please see: [[Religious Upbringing and Culture Affects Rates of Homosexuality]].]] |
| − | The causes of homosexuality are not properly known, yet modern science and common sense suggests that it is natural. After all, why would somebody who would face unending discrimination and prejudice because of their sexual orientation choose to be gay? Discrimination against homosexuals, no matter whether it is nature or nurture is wrong. If it's nature, that is similar to discriminating against people because they are of a certain race, like Hitler did with the Jews which led to the horrendous act of the Holocaust. Discrimination even if it is nurture is wrong, as that is like telling somebody that they are wrong because you like raspberry yogurt where as they like banana. | + | The '''causes of [[homosexuality]]''' are attributable to man's sinful nature, nurture and environment, and personal choice. How important each factor is, though, is an issue that is debated. Those from the most [[liberal]] school usually assume a philosophy of determinism, treating homosexuality as an identity or orientation which one has no choice over, and which cannot be changed. This belief is then used to justify acting it out.<ref>Sylvia Thorson-Smith, ''Reconciling the broken silence'', p. 30</ref> The contrasting and warranted position is that homosexuality is a choice, that of yielding to ultimately harmful desires, and which choice is partly affected by nurture and environment. |