Posted on 05/21/2015 8:09:52 AM PDT by xzins
HOMOSEXUALITYWed - 4:29 pm EST
Homosexuality , Poll
PRINCETON, NJ, May 20, 2015 (LifeSiteNews.com) -- For the first time, a majority of Americans say that homosexuals are "born that way."
According to the latest Gallup poll, 51 percent of Americans say that people are born gay or lesbian, while only 30 percent say outside factors such as upbringing and environment determine sexual orientation.
However, science would not bear that out. No fewer than eight major studies from around the world have found homosexuality is not a genetic condition.
Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council says that these numerous, rigorous studies of identical twins have now made it impossible to argue that there is a "gay gene." If homosexuality were inborn and predetermined, then when one identical twin is homosexual, the other should be, as well.
Yet one study from Yale and Columbia Universities found homosexuality common to only 6.7 percent of male identical twins and 5.3 percent of female identical twins.
The low rate of common homosexuality in identical twins – around six percent – is easily explained by nurture, not nature.
Researchers Peter Bearman and Hannah Brueckner concluded that environment was the determining factor. They rejected outright that "genetic influence independent of social context" as the reason for homosexuality. "(O)ur results support the hypothesis that less gendered socialization in early childhood and preadolescence shapes subsequent same-sex romantic preferences."
"Less gendered socialization" means, a boy was without a positive father figure, or a girl was without a positive mother figure.
In light of the evidence, Sprigg said simply, "No one is born gay."
Psychiatrists William Byne and Bruce Parsons summarize the science: "Critical review shows the evidence favoring a biologic theory to be lacking. ... In fact, the current trend may be to underrate the explanatory power of extant psychosocial models." In other words, homosexuality is a psychological malady, not something people are born with.
Some homosexuals openly admit that their lifestyle is a choice. Lindsay Miller, who describes herself as a "queer woman," complained in The Atlantic monthly, "I get frustrated with the veiled condescension of straight people who believe that queers 'can't help it,' and thus should be treated with tolerance and pity.”
“I was not born this way,” she wrote. “The life I have now is not something I ended up with because I had no other options. Make no mistake – it's a life I chose.”
"It's time to send the 'born that way' myth to the graveyard of misbegotten ideas, buried in the plot next to the myth that the sun revolves around the earth,” Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association has written.
And yet, the myth continues to gain believers, even among conservatives. According to the new Gallup poll, Republicans are divided on whether Americans are born homosexual (40 percent) or whether same-sex orientation is determined by environmental factors (36 percent).
In previous polls, a majority of Republicans have said homosexuality is not innate. Now, according to this poll, they are equally likely to view sexual orientation as inherent, rather than a choice or a consequence of how people were raised. In all, 62 percent of Democrats believe homosexuals were born that way.
The issue affects Republican politicians who, like all politicians, base their public statements on the polls. Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson recently apologized for merely suggesting people choose to be gay or lesbian. Sen. Marco Rubio has said that, while he does not support same-sex "marriage," he believes that people are born gay or lesbian.
Fischer says our society and particularly our presidential candidates should make policy based on medical and scientific reality, not polls. "If homosexual behavior is a choice, then our public policy can freely be shaped by an honest look at whether this behavioral choice is healthy and should be encouraged, or unhealthy and dangerous and consequently discouraged," he wrote.
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There is no debate over the health threats posed by engaging in the homosexual lifestyle. Fischer note that the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association admits homosexuals are at greater risk of AIDS, substance and alcohol abuse, depression and anxiety, hepatitis, STDs, and prostate and colon cancer.
"This is not behavior that any rational society should condone, endorse, subsidize, reward, promote or sanction in domestic policy or in the marketplace,” Fischer wrote. “It's a choice, and a bad one at that."
The Gallup poll, taken May 6-10, also reports a new record high number of Americans support same-sex "marriage."
The poll is based on telephone interviews with a random sample of 1,024 adults, aged 18 and older, living in the United States. The organization says its margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level.
Maybe not so much. First of all, biologists are looking at "epigenetic" factors now, trait variations that aren't related to specific genes. Prenatal conditions in the womb may also play a role.
Secondly, one would have to have a lot of faith in psychotherapy (if that's what it you mean by treatment) to think that it can change people's orientation in most cases. Therapy has a pretty sketchy record dealing with things that are a lot less ingrained.
I'd have to say that homosexuality is something that's determined after people are born, but that there are a lot of different factors involved so that it can't be pinned down to one source or have one simple cure.
Public Schools have been very busy propagandizing your kids, teachers either get on board or change professions.
Actually, anal sex is dangerous for biological and physical reasons to any practitioner. I know homosexuals who have recruited children....children. Believe it or not, your relationship with Nature's God is a concern of mine, but not for the reasons you think. However, that is why I mentioned the physical, biological, mental, emotional, social, and death reasons for homosexuality being a danger to a community and a neighborhood.
Sometimes it seems there are an awful lot of them.
Think about the Honey Bee, Ancesthntr.
The Worker Bees are sterile (same or even more-pronounced reproductive disadvantage than homosexuality). Yet their near-relative, the Queen Bee, thrives - indeed, she benefits from the fact that her siblings or half-siblings never reproduce, since all of their energy resources are devoted to her (rather than to any hypothetical offspring the Workers might otherwise have had). And she passes that tendency (sterility) on to her offspring.
Your categorical denial of the possible existence of a "gay gene" doesn't hold water.
Regards,
P.S.: I, personally, have no view on the possible inheritability of homosexual tendencies.
Or very good PR.
Why do heterosexuals insist on continuing to create gay offspring?
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