Posted on 07/21/2016 9:51:16 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and former psychiatrist–in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital, who has studied sexuality for 40 years, said it is a scientific fact that “there is no gay gene.”
“Environment,” however, “is very important,” said Dr. McHugh, author of The Mind Has Mountains: Reflections on Society and Psychiatry. He also explained that the permissive sexual culture in the United States today has confused “desire” with “love,” and that homosexuality is a false or “erroneous desire.”
In an interview with Virtue Online: The Voice for Global Orthodox Anglicanism, reporter Lydia Evans asked Dr. McHugh, “How do you view the popular assumption that science has somehow proven that sexual orientation is determined early in childhood, if not before birth?”
Dr. McHugh, who ended the sexual reassignment surgery program at Johns Hopkins because it was not helping the patients, answered, “Well, as I have said, there is no gay gene. And there are factors more influential than biology.”
“The best data, of course, [comes from the Framingham Study],” said Dr. McHugh. “If you are a man and you grow up in a rural environment, you are four times less likely to have homosexual relationships than if you grow up in a metropolitan area. That's not left-handedness.”
“If you are a lesbian, you are much more likely to be college-educated,” he said. “That's not something that happens at conception.”
“My point is that we now know that the environment is very important,” said Dr. McHugh.
Lydia Evans then asked, “On another front, as the sexuality debate within mainline churches seems to have shifted so profoundly in favor of the left, how do you see the debates of the broader culture changing in the next five to ten years?”
Dr. McHugh said, “It really is amazing -- I mean, 50 years ago [homosexual behavior] was a crime, and now we're talking about [same-sex marriage]. Anyone who wants to stick with the tradition is accused of being a biblical literalist or a homophobic racist, because, in part, of the more fundamental change in our society towards permissiveness, that is, easy divorce, cohabitation and concubinage, abortion, pornography ... and euthanasia.”
“The issue of the homosexual is not separate,” he said. “It's all part and parcel of the pandemonium that the permissive movement has brought. We have just licensed all kinds of behavior."
When asked about earlier generations being pressured to marry and have families, Dr. McHugh said these were societal expectations and they were positive.
“Yes, and they were good ones,” he said, “and biblically based, and part and parcel of my commitment to really what amounts to loving relationships.”
“You see, what has happened with the permissive movement is that it has picked up the Freudian confusion of desire and love, making them the same,” said Dr. McHugh. “And with the implication, for example, that I must desire my mother. I don't desire my mother. I love my mother.”
He continued, “Now the fact is that in my marriage, of course, I desired this woman and I felt love for her. Now, 50 years into marriage with her, I still desire her, but now I love her. She's irreplaceable. There is this thing that has come and it's different. This person exists for me as irreplaceable. So, there is this confusion of desire and love. [Homosexuality] is erroneous desire.”
When Lydia Evans asked about how the environment of a church, or religious-minded community, could affect people’s behavior, Dr. McHugh said, “This is the point. You've got to get the churches -- not just the Anglican churches, but the Roman Catholics and the Presbyterians.”
“They've got to start talking again about their foundational opinions,” he said. “There's an idea of there being different kinds of laws in our world: the natural law, the law of desire -- but there is scriptural law that comes out of the Old Testament. And they've got to get all of this straight.”
How does the in-utero theory match up against the homosexual twins studies?
You’re right. There isn’t a flannel shirt gene. All the little soldier robots behave the same and wear the same uniform. Males claim they want to be female but they don’t act or speak like a female. All the flitty overly dramatic hand gestures and lispy voices. No, not even close to female. And lesbians think male equals hillbilly thug with their haircuts and flannel shirts and tats. Gotta have the tats. As you say, it’s all an act. And being an act means it isn’t real so BUSTED!
It’s all about AtTeNtIoN!!! Look at MEEEEE! We DEMAND extra special rights and a parade! If they didn’t want attention, they wouldn’t advertise it and in your face about it while at the same time claiming it’s normal.
They also want a free pass to say and do anything that others would be called out on. If you don’t pat them on the head and give them a pass they cry and scream discrimination.
No, none of that is normal. The 98% straight population shouldn’t be pandering such behavior.
[Dr. McHugh]: “The issue of the homosexual is not separate, ...It’s all part and parcel of the pandemonium that the permissive movement has brought. We have just licensed all kinds of behavior.”
No truer words.
Freud was right. An example I know, the father was an alcoholic who eventually set himself on fire and died (good riddance). The mother was wackadoodle. Their oldest son was a druggie who’s lifestyle brought about an early end (America’s Most Wanted came this close to airing a story on him). The other son was gay and also died early. The daughter is a butch as you can get and is “married” to another lesbian. A bunch of sickos.
Every sane, thinking person does.
seems like matches pretty well. No expert, here, but I know too many gay people to just believe the, “it’s a choice, like which dessert to have” rendition. The brain is complicated, and not well understood, but most of the gay people I have known are just really gay. Like no woman is going to marry someone that gay.
The twins studies looked at identical twins where one was gay and the other not. Perhaps I am missing something, but wouldn’t the in-utero environment be the same for both?
There have been many claims of physical causes for homosexuality, and none that I am aware of have panned out. I am skeptical, but will always listen to factual evidence.
Oh I thought you were referring to the twins studies that found a strong correlation among twins where one being gay meant that the other had a much stonger than average propensity also to be gay. Anyway, yes the in utero environment would be similar, but there is so much we do not know about how hormones create these outcomes. There are studies that have shown that third sons, for example, are more likely to be gay, attributed to male hormones left in the womb from the older brothers that suppress the fetus’ production of hormones. But again, not always. For the time being, I am still inclined to believe gay people who say they knew they were gay in kindergarten, and not those who claim that it’s a character flaw that can be corrected with extra effort.
It bears mention though that there is reason to think that a large category of environmental influences on sexuality can constrain choice and misdirect desire. Notably, man-made organic pollutants can have such effects in nature, with endocrine disruption by pesticides, plasticizers, and flame retardants especially worrisome.
I think it’s the result of the rape of boys by homosexuals.
How would a five year old know he’s homosexual? When I was 5, I loathed boys. I loved my girlfriends. Was I homosexual?
No, that is different. Unless you desired them.
Then.how did the five year olds you mentioned know they were homosexual? Were they desiring other five year olds?
They weren’t five when I talked to them, they were adults, but they said that as little kids, as early as they could remember, they would have crushes or fall in love with the other boys in their school grades. They were too young for those crushes to be expressed sexually, but kids do have crushes at those ages, and they say that for them those crushes were always on other boys, not on girls.
I had crushes, because I was taught it was normal to be attracted to boys. Who taught them it was normal to be attracted to the same sex?
That’s the point. No one taught them. That’s the way they were hatched.
I don’t believe it’s genetic. I believe you’re introduced to homosexuality. I was molested as a young girl. No mememory of it. I do remember the after effects. I believe young boys are molested by homosexuals, who push intergenerational sex, which screws them up for life.
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