Debate:Homosexuality and free will

Are there any elements of choice, when it comes to carrying out homosexual acts? Are homosexuals "born that way"? Would it outrage their personhood to suppress the desire to fornicate with a member of the same sex?

Would it outrage you, Ed, to be told not to have sex with women, because it's wrong? Would it outrage the personhood to be told you could never have a family, or engage guilt-free in sex with a life partner?-AmesG_yo! 17:19, 30 April 2007 (EDT)

Dr. James Dobson, a Christian media personality and author, told Larry King:

I don’t blame homosexuals for being angry when people say they’ve made a choice to be gay, because they don’t. It usually comes out of very, very early childhood, and this is very controversial, but this is what I believe and many other people believe, that it has to do with an identity crisis that occurs too early to remember it, where a boy is born with an attachment to his mother and she is everything to him for about 18 months, and between 18 months and five years, he needs to detach from her and to reattach to his father. It’s a very important developmental task, and if his dad is gone or abusive or disinterested or maybe there’s just not a good fit there, what’s he going to do? He remains bonded to his mother ... [1]

"DR." Dobson is not authoritative, but as biased as AiG. And let's get to the root. Let's say it's not inborn. Let's say it's deeply personality rooted. If it's that deeply rooted, it's for all practical purposes immutable. If it's immutable, but based on a change after birth, does that matter at all?