Homosexuality genetically determined. Implications?

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I don't know if this is a legitimate observation on my part or not, but in situations in prisons and ships at sea, homosexual behavior is well known to take place, even when most who participate in it are otherwise heterosexual. Kinsey had observed how older men in the rural west had engaged in homosexual behavior even as late as the nineteen fifties, as the old west of their youth had still had few women, but a plethora of men.

Personally, I think we're all too hung up on the question of whether it's a choice or not. It shouldn't matter... lots of things are a choice, including what religion you follow and people are protected under the law anyway.

While I personally don't see it as a choice, I think you're right.

So you want to know how fundamentalists would react? Or were you implying in the OP that anyone who disagrees with homosexual behavior is homophobic and scientifically backwards? I don't see how it's even a question if it's about fundamentalists. Of course they wouldn't agree that it's physical.

Personally, I have two basic thoughts on it:

1. I've yet to see any strong evidence for homosexuality being genetic. Much like everything else to do with someone's personality, there is such a thing as neuroplasticity and it's hard to understand how all of the development works. Culture certainly seems to have it's hand in the demographics we see as well, and I don't just mean repressive versus non-repressive.

2. Seems like there's a burning desire on either side of this issue to make a claim towards either genetics or behavioral sciences, and the confirmation bias frustrates me. Especially because it shouldn't make a difference to Christians in the first place.