Posted on 12/29/2005 10:21:24 AM PST by Dane
Also this from a London Times article from today about Lord Tennyson's great-grandson.
"Margo and I had a tremendously happy marriage and our sexual relations were adequate. Indeed, my wife thought they were more than adequate."
Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids.
Which idol will they remain beholden to when people start aborting babies with the gay gene for that reason alone. Will they hold true to the abortion at all costs crowd, or will they hold true to the gay activists?
It is going to be fun to watch how they try to straddle that fence.
Either there is no "gay gene" or evolution as a theory is wrong. Pick one, libs, and wake me up when you decide what you believe.
Oh, you mean, this guy isn't working toward that goal? His agenda is not to help, but to justify this tragic ailment? Drat.
Of course sexuality is genetic. Teenagers have always been tryin' to get in each others jeans...........
Since gay activists also tend to be pro-abortion-for-any-reason activists, I wonder what their stance would be if straight couples started to routinely abort fetuses with the "gay gene" markers?
It is going to be fun to watch how they try to straddle that (spiked) fence.
Great minds...
It seems like many people think the "genetics vs choice" issue will answer all questions regarding "gay rights" policies. I say, not so fast!
Many behaviors may indeed have a genetic component - left-handedness, obesity, alcoholism, etc. Some behaviors are discouraged, others tolerated. Some are deemed to be health risks.
Let's say there's a "gay gene." That does not necessarily answer the many questions currently being discussed. Not by a longshot.
And I'm uncomfortable with the idea that our behavior (whatever it is) is largely the sum of our genetic makeup. Apart from the generalized desire for self-preservation, etc. - don't we have brains for a reason? What about personal responsibility?
"Either there is no "gay gene" or evolution as a theory is wrong. Pick one, libs, and wake me up when you decide what you believe."
Or the 'gay gene' is a genetic mutation and thus, a disease.
I'm not sure that Homosexuals carry the gene for that [personal responsibility].
I remember Rush Limbaugh saying something like this also - although he may not have been the first. he took heat for even thinking of the idea.
Funny how the same people who claim it's "only a lump of tissue" suddenly get so upset when someone like Rush or Bill Bennett uses abortion in a hypothetical, to show how disgusting it sounds. The critics are usually the same people who advocate it for real!
I didm't know lesbians were big on anal sex.
Why does it seem that in such discussions, the other half of the equation is almost always left out?
And gay men aren't the only ones who enjoy anal sex.
And in heterosexual desires, is liking a big butt a learned behaviour? Large breasts? Fat women? Skinny women? A man with chest hair? A man with a six pack? Facial hair?
Are those learned behaviors? Choices? Or is someone born with a predisposition to be attracted to certain things?
I just want to know how they went about deciding which Oregon rams were exclusively gay?
"Or the 'gay gene' is a genetic mutation and thus, a disease."
...and since, according to The Thoery of Evolution, all of mankind exists as a result of a series of genetic mutations from apedom, we are all therefore diseased apes. /s
Now go get your own banana!
R3
Even if you believe the numbers in this statistically insignificant study, it still shows the environment plays an equally important role as genetics.
"....If enough independent phenomena are studied and correlations sought, some will of course be found. If we know only the coincidences and not the enormous effort and many unsuccessful trials that preceded their discovery, we might believe that an important finding has been made. Actually, it is only what statisticians call 'the fallacy of the enumeration of favorable circumstances'....
Carl Sagan - Norman Bloom, Messenger of God - from Broca's Brain
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