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To: Pinkbell

we already have proof it isn’t genetic (ie hard-coded).

Identical twin studies have shown when one is gay, the other is only gay about 50% of the time.

If it was hardcoded and immutable, unchangeable, the second twin would have to be gay 100% of the time.

The fact it isn’t shows there is no hardcoding that people simply cannot help but be gay.


3 posted on 02/13/2014 8:47:01 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

If you have a code to not procreate, then how to you continue the code?


4 posted on 02/13/2014 8:49:20 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Genes are just one part of the story. Then there’s epigenetics. Gene expression based on external triggers, and so on.


5 posted on 02/13/2014 8:50:14 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
we already have proof it isn’t genetic (ie hard-coded).

Identical twin studies have shown when one is gay, the other is only gay about 50% of the time.

If it was hardcoded and immutable, unchangeable, the second twin would have to be gay 100% of the time.

The fact it isn’t shows there is no hardcoding that people simply cannot help but be gay.

It's not the presence of the gene - it's the activation.

19 posted on 02/13/2014 8:57:16 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
we already have proof it isn’t genetic (ie hard-coded).

Here's two more pieces of proof: The ex-lebsos Anne Heche and Mrs. Bill DeBlasio.

40 posted on 02/13/2014 9:16:45 PM PST by montag813
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To: Secret Agent Man

Besides, you’d have to also study a straight population to see how often these genes are present, and then compare the two. The findings are incomplete.


74 posted on 02/13/2014 11:08:34 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Identical twin studies have shown when one is gay, the other is only gay about 50% of the time.


Interesting. When the gayness of the unknown twin of the gay sibling is 25 times what would be expected, that’s profound evidence of a genetic link, if not an absolute genetic determination.

I suspect that the gay gene will be found for men, and for women it may never be found, or show a much lower “genetic-linked” rate for women.

Either that, or they’ll find a gene that gives women an affinity for plaid, overalls, and being fat and cranky, which also links to an aversion to men.


94 posted on 02/14/2014 4:19:13 AM PST by Atlas Sneezed ("Income Inequality?" Let's start with Washington DC vs. the rest of the nation!)
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To: Secret Agent Man
If it was hardcoded and immutable, unchangeable, the second twin would have to be gay 100% of the time

Science proved years ago that the DNA of identical twins were not always mirror images. If it were then how could one twin develop asthma or leukemia or other cancers without the other one developing it as well?

98 posted on 02/14/2014 4:25:40 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Secret Agent Man
Identical twin studies have shown when one is gay, the other is only gay about 50% of the time.

10 time more likely than normal (1/20).

144 posted on 02/14/2014 9:21:37 AM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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