So, homosexuality is a choice? You betcha. And this is how it happens:

One bright, sunny day, a perfectly normal heterosexual wakes up and decides it would be really fun to become gay. Why? Well, why not? Just think of all the perks:

1) You get to be labelled a (sexual) deviant by society

2) You get to be rejected by people formerly your friends and (but only if you are really lucky) your family tells you they never want to lay eyes on you again

3) You run the constant risk of getting sacked from your job

4) Since there are few places you can go to meet people like you, and you are afraid of being yourself among people who aren't, you get to feel lonely most of the time

5) Again, since there are few places you can go meet people like yourself, it is very difficult for you to find a partner and have the love and support that a relationship brings

6) If you do find the partner you need to keep it hidden from society, meaning that among other things, you cannot share joyful news of a wedding/commitment ceremony, a housewarming or a special holiday. Nor can you expect any support during the painful times like a break-up, if your partner falls seriously ill or if he/she passes away.

And that's just a small part of it. That is why suicide rate among gays is still so disproportionately high, because they are so darn happy! Get it?

Sure, it's possible to be gay and happy at the same time, but that's no thanks to a society that loves a scapegoat. Many gays, at some period of their lives, would give anything to be 'normal'.

This is why I personally subscribe to the genetics theory. Many people who are gay know they are different long before they have sex, sometimes before they even think about sex. Little girls have crushes on other little girls, boys want the attention of other little boys.

Steve Oh claims he has many friends who used to be 'practising homosexuals' who are now in happy, heterosexual relationships. By the same token I know of many people who were married who are now in very happy gay relationships (As the old joke goes: 'I used to practice homosexuality; I've gotten pretty good at it').

It may be that both my friends and Mr Oh's have found that their sexual orientation is not what they once thought it was. Or, just as likely, it could be that these people are bisexual: capable of falling in love with either men or women.

For some reason many Christians have made it their personal goal in life to condemn or reform gays. Not help the poor, not spread the word of love and compassion (which the Bible encourages several hundred times), but to focus all their energies on making other people feel small.

These are the so-called Christians who scan the pages of the Bible for anything that will support their own agenda which is to feel morally superior by condemning one 'sin' they themselves are free of.

Unfortunately, the Bible is like a game of telephone, with each new version moving further and further away from the original text. The word homosexuality did not even appear in the Bible until 1946. As for the passage in Corinthians quoted by Steven Oh, the original word now translated to 'homosexual' actually means 'coward' or 'morally weak'.

Steve Oh illustrates that one cannot be both gay and Christian by comparing it to an alcoholic who still wants to get drunk. It may interest Mr Oh to know that if Christianity were to reject everyone who practised something condemned by the Bible, it would be a very sparse religion indeed.

While the Bible does not specifically condemn homosexuality, it does have something to say, for instance, about people who sow more than one kind of crop in their fields, eat pork, wear garments woven of two materials, shave the corners of their hair round or 'mutilate' the corners of their beards. Why aren't more Christians making noise about cotton-polyester blends? Do Christians label as sinners anyone who dares make breakfast of a char siew pau ?

And speaking of obscure references, I did a search to find out more about Kendall and Zealy , the 'scientists' that Mr Oh refers to and who presumably said that exclusive homosexuality is only practised by humans (The Discovery Channel would be very surprised to hear that).

Google, my search engine of choice covering over three billion web pages, was unable to turn up a single result. It did return 86,000 pages about gay behaviour in other animals, many from respected sources, so I'll leave Mr Oh to do his own further research on this topic that seems to interest him so much.

I may not be an avid Bible reader, but there is one passage I've read that I feel too many Christians skim over while using their magnifying glass to find anything that they can warp into a reason to screech that I'm a sinner.

As opposed to the passages quoted by Steve Oh, these words were spoken by Jesus Himself. It's something about casting the first stone. It's cool. You should read it.