Posted on 07/16/2004 8:54:50 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
Can you give us a reference? Even if it is only one man'sopinion, it provides ammo.
lol, i just got an idea of where google may have taken you... ewwwwwwwwwwww
"I thought that was a interesting exchange to go out from a mass-media popular program."
Obviously somebody screwed up.
I assume you are also claiming we don't have the right to deny ourselves treatment.
It was in an issue of "Catholic Dossier" on the subject of homosexuality. And the author might have been Dutch. I wish I could do better ... but if Catholic Dossier is still publishing, they probably have an index of their issues on line somewhere. They lost me (or vice versa) a few moves ago!
if you want to pull THAT card, Scotch-Irish, Nordics and Germans are more prone to become Alcholics.
Norse and German culture embraces gay ideas. (no pun intended, ew)
Russians in the western areas have the same thing. and Native Americans are living on patches of dirt given to them as repayment, of course they're going to look at the bottom of a glass, they were screwed.
The APA was 'intimidated' into 'declaring' sodomy and other homosexual acts to be no longer pathologic...
Up until DSM II...Sodomites and lesbians were considered mentally ill.....with one stroke of the pen of a compromised group of Phds and Mds.....Homosexuals were normalized...according to the APA
Wonder if they can lobby the AMA to 'declassify' AIDS.... as no longer a contagious diesease (condition)....
And President Bush.
lol, yes dont forget to blame Bush.
Psychiatry: politics masquerading as science.
From its beginning to today, without break.
All the DSM entries result from politics, and still do, hiding behind the myth of "mental illness".
The actual percentage is closer to 2%.
oh, my psychology book said 5-10%.... and no, im not mocking you, i think this is a good example of people reading different surveys to different answers...
Homosexuals sexually molested as children in very high percentages.
I don't think it's a coincidence.
Excerpted from "Mapping the Mind" by Rita Carter
In 1991 the prestigious journal Science published a study showing that the brains of a group of homosexual men who had died from Aids were structurally different from the brains of heterosexual men. The nucleus in the hypothalamus that triggers male-typical sexual behaviour was much smaller in the gay men and looked more like that in the brains of women. The author, Simon LeVay, then Associate Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Adjunct Professor of Biology at the University of California was immediately attacked by gay activists who feared that the recognition of homosexuality as a physical-based condition might lead to it being re-stigmatized. LeVay, who is himself gay, then went on to discover that the corpus callosum differs getween gay and straight men, too-in gays it was found to be bigger. Three years later a study led by molecular biologist Dean Hamer of the National Institute of Health in Washington, DC, found evidence to suggest that a specific gene-carried on the maternal line - influenced sexual orientation in men. Put together, these studies provide strong evidence that homosexuality is rooted in biology - and hostility to the idea has largely disappeared.
too true.
"In 1991 the prestigious journal Science published a study showing that the brains of a group of homosexual men who had died from Aids were structurally different from the brains of heterosexual men. The nucleus in the hypothalamus that triggers male-typical sexual behaviour was much smaller in the gay men and looked more like that in the brains of women. "
the hypothalamus regulates body temp, sleep, and is near (but does not control) the area which produces hormones.
isnt it more likely that a man, suffering from a disease that is attacking the white blood cells simply had his regulatory system overworked?
these findings do not mention the condition of the heterosexual male.
as for the thigh bone... what does that have to do with anything? i can say "gay men are more prone to wear makeup"
it is also markedly true. is that proof of homosexuality?
"found evidence to suggest that a specific gene"
and until the 1980's, the rings and lines in South American deserts were "evidence that suggests aliens"
this has been found to have a rational, wordly answer.
i am not saying that the hypothesis is false, but it hasnt been proven by those terms.
"The nucleus in the hypothalamus that triggers male-typical sexual behaviour was much smaller in the gay men and looked more like that in the brains of women. "
This means that it is a learned behavior....the brain develops in areas which are stimulated--more development in areas of brain that pertain to math and spacial areas exist if one studies piano, for instance. Orphans in Romania had brains which had underdeveloped areas of the brain which had to do with social interaction.......etc. Repeated behaviors will affect the network and growth of the brain......it is only common sense.
All twin studies, which showed that identical twins ended up with different sexual orientations debunked the "gene" theory and proves that the cause is not genetic.
bump
As well, the Founders were all citizens of various states within the Republic at a time when all the states had laws banning homosexual behavior. The Founders gave us no such tools to deal with them(homosexuals)& it's not called "freedom of association", despite your ridiculous and uninformed assertion concerning "freedom of association".
Within the field of psychiatry, especially reperative therapy as outlined by NARTH and other organization, has helped many homosexuals to a large degree with their unwanted homosexual attractions. You see, that's the key from what I have read. If a homosexual is tired of their lifestyle that significantly improves their odds of becoming heterosexual through therapy. Remember, there
are many documented studies of lesbians coming back and totally leaving the lesbian lifestyle.
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