Posted on 11/03/2005 11:52:10 PM PST by Ultra Sonic 007
Scientists say they have shown how male homosexuality could be passed from generation to generation. Nature encourages mothers to pass on a "gay trait" to their male offspring by boosting their fertility, the Italian University of Padova team believes.
This would keep the pattern of gay inheritance alive, they told the Royal Society's Biological Sciences journal.
Critics of the theory argue a gay gene would eventually be wiped out because gay couples do not procreate.
Inheritance theory
There is controversy about whether sexual orientation is a matter of choice, the authors of the study admitted to the journal.
Campaigners say equality for homosexual people is the more important issue.
Back in 1993, US researchers suggested male homosexuality was passed from mother to son after they found strong patterns of inheritance in family trees.
There might be...reproductive advantages associated with male homosexuality. The study authors
It has also been noted that homosexual males are more often the younger siblings of a number of older brothers. Scientists have said it might be that the mother develops some kind of resistance to the male Y chromosome in her offspring that makes subsequent baby boys more likely to be born gay.
Scientists doing DNA studies on homosexual brothers pinpointed 'culprit' genetic material to a region of the X chromosome that mothers pass on to their offspring.
But other researchers in the US have not been able to replicate these findings.
Highly fertile
Andrea Camperio-Ciani and colleagues argue genetic factors favouring homosexual male offspring could make women more fertile.
"Our data resolve this paradox by showing that there might be, hitherto unsuspected, reproductive advantages associated with male homosexuality," they said.
They looked at 98 homosexual and 100 heterosexual men and their relatives, which included more than 4,600 people overall.
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I get the impression that this is again putting the fruit before the tree. They are saying that because younger siblings of fertile women are more likely to be homosexual, there must be a gene that produced it. That is swish-ful thinking. If RangerM's study is legit, it seems far more likely that the 'greater chance of old dads having homo offspring' is kicking in, which is also a study that puts forth the genetic argument where it could find easily a behavioral reason--and the same reason at that.
I put forth the idea that, if Daddy is ninety, Mommy will be raising the kid almost exclusively. In these studies, Mom is more likely present through the formative years of these kids than Dad is. That would seemingly make a mama's boy more likely--though I've seen no scientific studies that relate a strong mother-son relationship to homosexuality. One could infer from societal stereotypes that such a sexuality is likely to evolve from that relationship, however.
"US researchers suggested male homosexuality was passed from mother to son..."
Yea, right ! They used to say it was the mother that determined the sex of the child, too.
I don't know how to explain lesbians...yet, but I think gays are more in touch with their feminine side which, ironically, makes them more attractive to women because they're gentler. Maybe that's what lesbians are looking for, too???
Oh really?
"Obviously, homosexuals reproduce at a lower rate than heterosexuals..."
Heterosexuals are reproducing less...thanks to "abortion rights".
Probably intended -- I'll guess here -- to write, "MOST people who get [AIDS] to so voluntarily," given that the majority of people who get [AIDS] is and continues to be male homosexuals, as to rate of transmission.
Preventing it is a known process: don't engage in behaviors that allow transmission of the virus that causes AIDS, which is widely available information, even on a public education level. Since the highest rate of transmission is among people who are (almost always) aware of how to prevent the transmission but acquire it anyway, they can be defined as, therefore, "the majority of people who get [AIDS] (who) do so voluntarily."
Age 10 is the ideal age of children... to child molestors. Old enough to be approaching development, young enough to be perfectly manipulated.
Genesis 13:13
Now the men of Sodom were wicked and were sinning greatly against the LORD.
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Isaiah 3:9
9. The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Please don't ping me to homosexual threads.
One 'homosexual' recruits the next
Even with an E-C theme in them?
The reality is that almost everyone who gets AIDS these days, does so because of some activity they voluntarily engage in.
And no, you don't get it by sitting on a toilet seat in a public lavatory.
I am reminded of the scene in Slap Shot where Paul Newman comments on the owner's son, and suggests she re-marry before her son (well, you have to see the movie). It was a great line, that can't be quoted in this forum.
I do believe "their" is referring to the mothers, not the gay sons.
ROTFL!!
No surprises, here. If they can demonstrate homosexuality is as genetic as skin color, they can co-opt the civil rights movement.
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