My view is plain & simple: You are born with your sexuality, and you have no choice. Sadly for those whose sexual orientation is against the views of some religions, some people are labeled as rejects, and I reject that attitude. I have too many Gay & Lesbian friends who are good people; in fact more honest and fair people than many bible-thumping churchly people I know, to think otherwise. If somebody told me I am wrong to like girls who are "tomboys", and I had to like other men or Barbie-type women who pretend they can't lift a beer bottle, I'd be VERY unhappy.
Now looking at it from the point of view of many of the religious anti-Gay & Lesbian groups, I think they got those ideas from the churches' founders who knew that homosexuality would fail to cause the churches to grow by the members marrying and reproducing into the church. And I think that if there's a supreme power, or God, that homosexuality might be a means for population control while keeping every man and woman fulfilled and happy, without reproducing to excess.
Just my 2c worth, as a baptized Methodist but declared Agnostic.
Just to be clear, I respect and listen to all opinions, and in return I expect the same for mine. The fact is that nobody "really knows". And I have a couple of male friends who believe homosexuality is a choice, and are outspokenly judgmental on it, and THEY ARE closet Gay themselves. I've seen them checking guys out, and when they've had what they pretended to be marriages or girlfriends, it ended fast. I can usually tell when someone is in the closet, as he/she will get all scared & nervous when the subject comes up, and they'll start preaching about how they just can't understand Gayness, and how awful it must feel to be Gay, and on & on. Straight guys don't act like that; at least the ones I've known. And I don't act that way. Psychologically, most people won't need to pick out a group of people to villify, unless they need a diversion from a doubt they have about themselves.
Charles