I'm gay.
I no longer act on it because I believe it's a sin (and 40+ y/o helps shut it down too). Always believed it was sin. Successfully resisted it throughout my teens and half of my 20's, then acted on it mid 20's thru 40.
The attraction isn't a choice—kidding yourself if you actually believe that (which I find hard to imagine).
Acting on it is obviously a choice.
I've never acted out with women because the desire wasn't really there, not because I made a choice not to be attracted to women. I desperately wanted that attraction to be there (it arguably is, but 10% as strong). How does one choose what to be attracted to? A guy who is repulsed by thick women and adore rail-skinny women is gonna be really hard to flip those the opposite way. Get him to be repulsed by rail-skinny women from here on out and drool over fatties.
People who choose to be attracted to the opposite sex are a mystery to me. I tried to be and never figured out how.
Countless Christians sincerely try for endless years to "pray the gay away."
God love 'em if it works for some. Those are few and far between.
I'll abstain for the rest of my life (been 6 yeas now).
Zero abuse as a child, zero tendency toward child attraction. Maybe I'm unusual those ways, but I don't think so…unless friends/acquaintances were all lying. I knew a lot who claimed same as me, but probably more who were abused in some way. I've known as many hetero pedos as homo ones (few of either…to my knowledge).
All that said, probably 1/3 of gays are people who would never bother you and don't want special rights or to parade themselves. But it is wrong…it's a sin… I'm against it… I think it's just a very, very convincing lie of the devil, like so many things in this world. VERY convincing that it's "natural" and just who/what you are.
I realize you may be/probably just a shill, but I wrote this anyway.