'Gay gene' row over sperm donations ("Yes, there is a gay gene, but don't tell mom & dad")

The Dominion Post ^ | 14 March 2006 | NIKKI MACDONALD

[trubluolyguy]

An academic has enraged homosexuals with his claim that recipients of the sperm of gay donors should be told that a "gay gene" could be passed on to the child.

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What is worse is, if you knew while the child was in utero that he was going to be a pillow biter, would you put him up for adoption?

[Mears]

If gays are "born that way" then it must be genetic therefore how can they argue the point?

[Dan Middleton]

Seems only fair. Hoist by their own petard, I'd say.

Damn, you can't talk about these things without sounding dirty.

[Servant of the 9]

An academic has enraged homosexuals with his claim that recipients of the sperm of gay donors should be told that a "gay gene" could be passed on to the child.

The suggestion has been dismissed as pathetic by a gay rights organisation.

But . . . . but . . . . aren't they the ones who claim to be born that way?

I think most of them are born that way, and parents shold be warned.

So9

[Slings and Arrows]

Damn, you can't talk about these things without sounding dirty.

I got lost when I saw that the story was about Frank Sin.

[jimbergin]

"I think most of them are born that way, and parents shold be warned."

There is absolutely no real evidence that sexual orientation is genetic. The "gay gene" has never been found, because it probably does not exist.

[RedMonqey]

Homos make gigantic shift from pro abortion to pro life.


Democrats are in BIG trouble!!

[Stepan12]

There is absolutely no real evidence that sexual orientation is genetic. The "gay gene" has never been found, because it probably does not exist.

bttt

[TASMANIANRED]

Can't have it both ways.

[Dan Middleton]

Homos make gigantic shift from pro abortion to pro life.

Democrats are in BIG trouble!!

I've heard this hypothetical raised before: If proof were found that there was a "gay gene," how would the homosexual/lesbian "community" feel about "birth screening" on the basis of this gene's presence?

[marsh_of_mists]

I do enjoy it when the misguided rhetoric of liberals come back to bite them in the patootie. This gay gene business has all the makings of that, because is the scientists every claim to have discovered the gay gene, well...

[Graybeard58]

Can't have it both ways.

The queers can.

[Tired of Taxes]

I wonder if Dr. Sin is trying to prove a point:

If it's genetic, and there's a special gene, and people with it are considered a "race", entitled to "civil rights", then why not tell parents beforehand?

Parents are told the RACE of the donor.

[lizma]

Hoist by their own petard,

Exactly. But I don't think there is a "gay gene". A gene for a narcissistic personality.... maybe.

I guess nature vs nurture is still part of the fight. Every gay, granted not many, that I know has some child abuse in their history.

Bottom line here, let the information out and we'll see what America really feels about "diversity". Obviously the gays have already figured out how the chips will fall.

[Number57]

WOW!!! A true Catch 22...

"NO NO NO I was BORN gay!!"

Then this news comes out... maybe certain people don't want the gay gene passed down to their offspring...

"NO NO NO... dang it! Stop making sense! I didn't mean it literally!"

Suddenly the room gets smaller. meh.