Homosexuals and their advocates continue to push their lifestyle as an equivalent to heterosexuality, and some of their arguments are pointed right back at heterosexuals, in an effort to silence them. Unfortunately, too many have been swayed by these flawed arguments (because they can sound convincing), including many of our youth.
One such argument in recent years has asked heterosexuals, “When did you choose to be straight? If one lifestyle,” they argue, “is a choice, then the other must also be a choice.” Of course, they are trying to do two things: (1) make homosexuality as “normal” as heterosexuality, and (2) make heterosexuals feel uncomfortable and unable to answer the question, and thus yield their position and agree with the “being straight is a choice” allegation. But, not so fast! Let’s consider this faulty line of reasoning.
Do not be baited into a false premise! If you step into their field of thought and try to answer a query that is based upon a flawed line of argumentation, you will either lose the argument or yield your position. They want you to think that being straight must have been a choice that you made (if being gay was a choice that they made), and they press to know when you made that choice. You are in a no-win position if you try to answer based on their premise, so do not answer the question. (It would be the same as trying to answer the question, “Have you stopped beating your wife?”) A false premise is no place for truth to linger and “try to explain.”
Back up and stand on the solid foundation of truth! Change the basis of the discussion to God and His creation. We are not here by chance or evolutionary mythology, but we have been created by God! God created male and female (Gen. 1:27). God created man (Gen. 2:7). God created woman for the man (Gen. 2:18-23). God created heterosexuals and the heterosexual relationship (Gen. 2:24). “A man shall…be joined to his wife” (heterosexual). “A man shall leave his father and mother” (heterosexual). That’s God’s creation! Thousands of years later, Jesus Himself recognized and argued that the heterosexual relationship serves as God’s approved model for human sexuality (Matt. 19:4-6).
“When did you choose to be straight?” Wrong premise! I did not choose be to straight! God made me to be a heterosexual being, just as He created Adam and Eve to be heterosexual beings! We must back up, stand on truth and see heterosexuality as God’s “normal”! If I choose, then, to deviate from God’s norm of creation, and if I choose to incline myself to homosexual desires and lifestyle, that is the choice. But, to be straight was and is not a choice but a Divine Design!