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To: silverleaf
Aside from homosexuality there are other instances of identical twins where one has an anomaly, personality trait, or whatever you want to call it...

True. Strangley enough my wife works with a woman, a lesbian. Thats is not the starange part. She has twin siblings one male one female. Both are gay as well.

strong circumstantial evidence for the gay gene in that family.

31 posted on 01/14/2006 4:55:51 PM PST by Michael.SF. ('Only thing worse than a Frenchman is a Frenchman who lives in Canada' - Ted Nugent.)
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To: Michael.SF.

Or strong evidence for an environmental factor if they were raised together. Nature vs nurture is very very difficult to distinguish.
susie


50 posted on 01/14/2006 5:40:33 PM PST by brytlea (I'm not a conspiracy theorist....really.)
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To: Michael.SF.
Both are gay as well.

strong circumstantial evidence for the gay gene in that family.

It's also strong circumstantial evidence that the family was disfunctional.

Circumstantial evidence, like anecdotal evidence, is a bad source for public policy.

Shalom.

64 posted on 01/14/2006 6:14:55 PM PST by ArGee (So that's how liberty dies, with thunderous applause. - Padme Amidala)
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To: Michael.SF.

No, it's "strong substantiation" FOR SHARED BEHAVIORS in "that family."

If biological research cannot even begin to find "a gay gene," mere observances by office workers about one another to include imaginings about the X-Files is not, not even approaching, substantiation for "that gay gene."

Over and over and over again I read this sort of flip, fanciful presumption about homosexuality, as if you can determine cellular chemistry by how someone fills out their required forms and types at their desk.

What you think you observe as an indication that "a gay gene" is present in "a family" is you noticing familial, learned behaviors. They carry on for generations upon generations, by the way.


187 posted on 01/15/2006 9:18:50 AM PST by MillerCreek
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