Posted on 12/11/2012 5:42:41 PM PST by Olog-hai
A team of international researchers has completed a study that suggests we will probably never find a “gay gene.” Sexual orientation is not about genetics, say the researchers; it’s about epigenetics. This is the process where DNA expression is influenced by any number of external factors in the environment. And in the case of homosexuality, the researchers argue, the environment is the womb itself. …
Specifically, the researchers discovered sex-specific epi-marks which, unlike most genetic switches, get passed down from father to daughter or mother to son. Most epi-marks don’t normally pass between generations and are essentially “erased.” Rice and Friberg say this explains why homosexuality appears to run in families, yet has no real genetic underpinning. …
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This theory explains the children that come out different. It might not be the only answer to sexual orientation nd imprinting (molestation) may also play a role, but no doubt something is hard wired as well. There are many children who play differently than their gender. They were not molested. They are good people, beloved children of Gd, but they act like the opposite gender, not their own. This does demand study. Epigenetics helps to explain these discrepancies because there is no gay “gene,” just gay behavior and sometimes looks as well.
I believe they are onto something. Knuckle dragging freepers love to think that molestation creates all homosexuality, but they would be very wrong. Ask the good decent men who are very straight but their lives have been greatly damaged by mole station by a man in their childhoods. It definitely doesn’t turn all boys gay.
I hope it will be testable too either way, and if its true that people will not abort babies who have it just as I wish they didnt abort babies with down.
Looking on the bright side, this may be the first step towards a cure.
Not too far down the road, what with weirdos like Dan Savage saying that it is time to “acknowledge the existence of good pedophiles” (actual quote).
Several years ago a homosexual-oriented group tried to push the idea that homosexuality was a genetic trait because they found that very frequently a homosexual had an uncle on the mother’s side (the mother’s brother) who was also a homosexual. They missed the obvious, that the mother stupidly trusted her brother who was secretly molesting her sons.
It is THE sort of think Hillary C is FOR. Genetic testing to “decide” where a child can be placed in society. In this case— gays can be “aborted” with ease if known in advance.
So, depending on your “preference” as a parent, and in line with the Planned Parenthood nazism, this would be ultimate eugenics. For the purity of the child and all.
The gays don’t want this. Anymore than the study long ago about male babies born during the London Blitz— percentage homo quite high vs. control population which was not in the blitz. Mothers had high adrenalin from fear all the time— and the male babies were “feminized” (in all basic embryology texts, or at least it was at one point) by the high adrenalin blood levels in the mother.
“It’s a choice, like any other behavior.”
Acting on the inclination is indeed a choice.
But I think being so inclined is a mental disorder, not a choice.
We should treat that inclination as such and not try to pass it off as “another normal” like the agenda promoters are trying to do.
Nobody has ever said that being molested turns all boys gay just just as being beaten as a child does not mean that you will grow up to beat your kids.
It does however result in a statistically significant higher chance of those things happening and for similar reasons.
The victim does not want to be a victim, they want to be strong. The abuser is strong. The way to be strong is to be an abuser and have your own victims.
And the cycle continues.
Epigenetics is a relatively new science ~ but this is not about a ‘gaijin’ or ‘gay gene’ either!
Everybody has the genes to metabolize alcohol except some people don’t. There’s your answer. The metabolic pathways have been long known.
“At least a simple early pregnancy genetic test probably can be produced. That would make an interesting sort of leverage on abortion policy, for one thing.”
At least one circumstance for abortion will be made illegal.
I believe that homosexuality is congenital. There are also many birth defects that are also congenital as well. Why would it be genetic when it ends the genetic line? What possible purpose would that serve the gene pool as it won’t continue the line and therefore not add any more variance?
How do you explain bisexuality?
I cannot remember the scientist, but it was someone talking about how horrible AIDS was for medical research. It was politically popular and pulled in money that could save far more lives by studying malaria, tuberculosis and diseases that kill more per year than AIDS had at that time.
I’ve always thought of heterosexuality and homosexuality as on a kind of spectrum with bi-sexuality in the middle but maybe that’s too simplistic. What’s your take on it?
Someone brought up a really good point earlier. If this is a genetic defect they found via testing, now they can start testing for it. And many parents would choose to abort. How could liberals then disagree, if parents can abort for any other genetic defect and even for their convenience?
Yet you’d see the left and especially LBGT become pro-life in a hurry.
This news arrives on the same day a report came in about a young girl whose cancer was cured with a modified HIV virus ~ see: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2246312/Girl-7-beats-leukaemia-revolutionary-treatment-using-HIV-virus-wire-immune-system.html . There are a number of other ways to rewrite your cell nucleus ~ glipizide and glucophage do it ~ then there’s this thing about using polymer nano particles to carry all sorts of stuff into the cell nucleus ~ so it’s pretty clear people might even make an attempt to CURE homosexuality ~ probably within weeks!
PC = Pro Cweer?
>>Everybody has the genes to metabolize alcohol except some people don’t.
Not sure I see what you’re getting at. To metabolize is to process through the body. To extract energy and new materials, and to remove undesired materials. Everyone’s body metabolizes alcohol. I’m an alcoholic, and I make a conscious choice every day to be sober, because it’s the right thing to do.
That creates a serious social problem ~
I suppose there are other causes of alcoholism ~ perhaps various sorts of liver damage.
The only part of it under the control of the victim is to make sure alcohol consumption is within the ability of the body to metabolize it in a relatively short time.
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