Studies of identical twins ineluctably show that sexual orientation is not fully genetically determined, but is somewhat linked to genetic background (identical twins are more likely than fraternal to share a common sexual orientation). On the other hand, a century and a half of scientific investigation on environmental determination has yielded nothing tangible in terms of reproducible data. There are scripture passages implying God knows our spirits before we are born, but whether this is because they are predetermined prior to birth or whether it's because God stands outside the time dimension isn't clear. For those of us who accept evolution, genetic determination is merely long-term environmental determination as reflected in our DNA, so there is no reason to think God would love all genetically determined sexual orientations but pick and choose among post-natally determined orientations, fetishes, and so on.

Basically, we all must decide between the rock of "all sexual orientations are lawful but some are not convenient" (neo-orthodox theology - love is truly all the law and the prophets but what you can truly lovingly do within some sexual orientations may not include sex per se) and the hard place of "sexual orientation is a roulette wheel and only when your ball comes out in one of the red slots do you have a sexual orientation that's acceptable to God" (fundamentalist-realist theology, love is to be accepted only when it matches the inferred divine master plan. As a less viable choice, thanks to relentless disproof, there is also "God will correct all sexual orientations to hetero through faith," the fundamentalist-romanticist theology).

We've gone through a lot of the ins and outs of this in our past posts, and since Clolibre seems to have said he won't come back here, perhaps I will resist the temptation to continue beyond this point. The bottom line is that neo-orthodoxy doesn't care where his sexual orientation came from within the realm of biology and life experience. It's a gift from God, like life itself, and it can surely be deployed for love but not necessarily for sex.