What is YOUR sexual orientation?

[Hentenza]

Sexual orientation: Heterosexual

Human love orientation: Everyone.

 

[PinkTulip]

That's quite a mixed way of putting it, even with your definition.

Pansexuality is an attraction beyond physical attraction and into emotion, personality and the actual relationship. It in no way means "I'll sleep with anything". I happily have a boyfriend and we're both waiting until marriage.

So you are heterosexual?

 

[TheFathersDaughter]

So you are heterosexual?

By that logic, bisexuality doesn't exist. No. I'm pansexual. But I'm in a relationship.

 

[PostIndustrialist]

By that logic, bisexuality doesn't exist. No. I'm pansexual. But I'm in a relationship.

Better than fryingpansexual

 

[Everlasting33]

heterosexual

 

[TheFathersDaughter]

Better than fryingpansexual

 

[Pogue]

Beanosexual (exclusively atttracted to Sean Bean)

No, I lie. Well, only a bit. Heterosexual.

 

[Ave Maria]

I'm surprised that nobody has voted transsexual yet. Transsexual Christians do exist after all.

 

[ScottBot]

Sexual orientation: Heterosexual

Human love orientation: Everyone.

Good answer. Ditto.

 

[ScottBot]

I'm surprised that nobody has voted transsexual yet. Transsexual Christians do exist after all.

There are som deep theological complications with that premise.

 

[Ave Maria]

There are som deep theological complications with that premise.

Like what?

 

[ScottBot]

Like what?

Nearly all transexuals believe they were "made wrong". A Christian transexual would naturally have to believe that this error originated with the Almighty. Which puts us in the position where God made a mistake. If God can make misakes, then He isn't perfect, and the basis for Christianity crumbles like a house of cards.

 

[HaloHope]

I'm surprised that nobody has voted transsexual yet. Transsexual Christians do exist after all.

While I appreciate it was a honest mistake, the fact is transexuality is completely unrelated to a sexual orientation. I may be transexual and have gone through a transition, however my sexuality happens to be homosexual so thats what I voted for.

Gender and sexual orientation (in my opinion at least are seperate)

 

[HaloHope]

Nearly all transexuals believe they were "made wrong". A Christian transexual would naturally have to believe that this error originated with the Almighty. Which puts us in the position where God made a mistake. If God can make misakes, then He isn't perfect, and the basis for Christianity crumbles like a house of cards.

Erm..
Thank you very much for putting words in the mouth of some transexual Christians, but I personally see transexuality and Christianity as infinately compatible.

My basis for Christianity certainly hasn't crumbled like a house of cards going by that logic every single person born with a birth defect or disability can't be a Christian either. Transexuality is no different to treating any other medical condition, the way I see it I was born with a defect, it was treated, thats it. I thank God I was able to get the treatment I needed.

 

[Pogue]

My basis for Christianity certainly hasn't crumbled like a house of cards going by that logic every single person born with a birth defect or disability can't be a Christian either. Transexuality is no different to treating any other medical condition, the way I see it I was born with a defect, it was treated, thats it. I thank God I was able to get the treatment I needed.

I agree. I think it's perfectly possible to believe that it's part of God's plan to make you a certain way-it's not incompatible with Christianity at all.

 

[artybloke]

Nearly all transexuals believe they were "made wrong". A Christian transexual would naturally have to believe that this error originated with the Almighty. Which puts us in the position where God made a mistake. If God can make misakes, then He isn't perfect, and the basis for Christianity crumbles like a house of cards.

Only if you think God made a mistake when he made some people susceptible to genetic diseases such as sickle cell anaemia, multiple sclerosis and other such things.

I'm hetero, by the way.

Though I once saw in a visitor's book that someone had written: "I'm homosexual. I like boys." So I wrote next to it: "I'm polysexual. I like parrots."

 

[Der Alte]

[SIZE=-1]Only if you think God made a mistake when he made some people susceptible to genetic diseases such as sickle cell anaemia, multiple sclerosis and other such things.

I'm hetero, by the way.

Though I once saw in a visitor's book that someone had written: "I'm homosexual. I like boys." So I wrote next to it: "I'm polysexual. I like parrots."[/SIZE]

Aren't sickle cell anemia and MS genetic conditions? Has the motivation which prompts a person to have gender reassignment surgery been identified as a genetic condition? Once a person has the surgery will their DNA reflect that they are their birth gender or the gender they were trying to be changed to?

 

[artybloke]

There is some evidence that it involves a different brain chemistry, but as it takes slicing up the hypothalamus in the brain to find out, and you need to be dead for that, it's hard to tell whether this is the cause, or the result.

But there are conditions such as Down's Syndrome that are not "genetic" as such, for which one cannot blame the person who's got it, and gender dysmorphia could well be one of them.

Considering the extremes to which you have to go to change gender, it doesn't seem likely to be a "choice," though.

 

[ScottBot]

Erm..
Thank you very much for putting words in the mouth of some transexual Christians, but I personally see transexuality and Christianity as infinately compatible.

My basis for Christianity certainly hasn't crumbled like a house of cards going by that logic every single person born with a birth defect or disability can't be a Christian either. Transexuality is no different to treating any other medical condition, the way I see it I was born with a defect, it was treated, thats it. I thank God I was able to get the treatment I needed.

So now you compare gender to a disease? That's just great.

 

[Ave Maria]

Only if you think God made a mistake when he made some people susceptible to genetic diseases such as sickle cell anaemia, multiple sclerosis and other such things.

I'm hetero, by the way.

Though I once saw in a visitor's book that someone had written: "I'm homosexual. I like boys." So I wrote next to it: "I'm polysexual. I like parrots."

Exactly. People don't think God made a mistake when they are born with some disease or other genetic defect so why would a Christian transsexual think that?