Homosexuality is NOT a choice

I would like to remind you that the topic of your debate is, "Homosexuality is NOT a choice". Can you please stay on topic for the last round? I haven't attempted to argue whether homosexuality is good or bad and whether a person should interfere. I've only presented a case that our sexuality, including homosexual desires are influenced by our choices.You said:"Oh the ignornace. Your tastes change during puberty. It's your hormones being all screwed up."From this comment I get the impression that you did not read my entire case. I am not speaking from ignorance but real experience. My argument wasn't about how puberty effects us but how our sexuality changes throughout our lifetime. Specifically our preferences and tastes and it's different for everybody. I'm not making this up nor is it something I've read or watched but it's what I've observed in my friends and people I've met and worked with. I know people who have had homosexual desires for as long as they can remember and others who had homosexual desires for a period of time in their life, both were very real.When you claim that our decisions do not effect our sexuality, you're saying to people that they have no control over their sexuality. I wouldn't want to impose that on anybody. In truth, we do have a degree of control over our own sexuality. We are not helpless to our sexual desires. You said:"You say you're not a homophobe. But you say you don't agree with their lifestyle, God I hate that statement."This is irrelevant to the debate but I'll still engage. I also don't agree with many political parties, religions and ideologies but I don't hate those people. I saw that you're a democrat, does that mean you hate republicans? I also see that you disagree with my views and opinions, does that mean you hate me? I have friends of different religion, political persuasions and yes, homosexuals too, but I consider them my dear friends. It looks like you're projecting a preconceived image unto me. I haven't judged you because you have different opinions to me, I just think you're wrong. You said:"If someone I love wants to graduate from college and I disagree, I'm not going to stop that person from graduating college, leave people alone. What they do hurts no one." Again, this is irrelevant to the debate and in fact falls short of your argument because a person can "choose" to go to college or not. I have not talked at all about whether we should "stop them", I haven't even attempted to argue whether homosexuality is unhealthy or bad. If you would like to debate these things with me, why not start another debate with a different topic?In closing, my arguments have not been whether homosexuality is good or bad for a person, but a case that our choices effect our sexuality. When we say that homosexuality is not a choice it implies that we cannot control our sexuality and we're at the mercy of our own sexual desires. This takes away the emotional and intellectual freedom to make decisions that will positively effect a persons sexuality. People should be free to choose and make decisions regarding their sexuality without being told that it's not a choice and there's nothing they can do about it.