Hmm...

[A Black Falcon]

Yes, the homosexual lifestyle is a choice. A humongous flamer has the choice of whether to stroll outside in a complete 3-piece suit of magenta and a top-hat and walking cane with a wooden penis on the end of its handle.

True. Not acting like a homosexual would not come naturally, but people don't always do what comes naturally.

On the other hand, I doubt that homosexuals can, essentially, "turn off" their attraction towards other men, and likewise "turn on" an attraction towards women.

And this is where people like Weltall stop listening. It seems like such an obvious (and completely incontravertably true) statement to me, and to most liberals, but to people like Weltall or EM... facts, and the experiences or observations of homosexuals, don't matter. Only their religious-based view of reality does.

. If homosexuality is hereditary, is pedophilia? What about fecalphilia? Necrophilia? What about something small, like foot fetishism, or domination/submission? Where do you draw the line?

The answer is a very unsatisfying "we have no idea".

If I had to guess, I would say that these sexual fetishes (including something in extreme contrast to the norm, like homosexuality) are learned. When I say that, I don't mean that a mother and father can sit down and teach a child to be gay or straight. I mean that during the first 6-8 years of a child's life, there could be unknown factors that cause sexual deviancies. I'm no expert in psychology, but it doesn't take an expert to point out that sexual impulses play a large role in a person's life. It's a primal urge that's necessary for perpetuating our species. I think it's possible for that instinct to somehow deviate based on what a child has observed or experienced in those early years of his/her life.

Maybe that plays a role, but I know that I've heard it described as how homosexuals just, when they hit puberty, get attracted to the same sex instead of the other one. Would just environmental factors be enough to cause that? I don't know... maybe it's possible, but... we really don't know. It's obviously very complex, because science hasn't figured it out yet...