Posted on 12/30/2006 5:17:24 PM PST by Mount Athos
Edited on 12/30/2006 5:44:39 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
I failed to post page 2 of article, click on link to see it
Fear? The horror!
perhaps a mod can append this to the article:
Michael Bailey, a neurology professor at Northwestern University near Chicago, said: Allowing parents to select their childrens sexual orientation would further a parents freedom to raise the sort of children they want to raise.
Critics fear the findings could be abused.
Udo Schuklenk, Professor of Bioethics at Glasgow Caledonian University, who has written to the researchers pressing them to stop, said: I dont believe the motives of the study are homophobic, but their work brings the terrible possibility of exploitation by homophobic societies. Imagine this technology in the hands of Iran, for example.
It is typical of the US to ignore the global context in which this is taking place.
Peter Tatchell, the gay rights campaigner, said: These experiments echo Nazi research in the early 1940s which aimed at eradicating homosexuality. They stink of eugenics. There is a danger that extreme homophobic regimes may try to use these experimental results to change the orientation of gay people.
He said that the techniques being developed in sheep could in future allow parents to play God.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the pressure group, condemned the study as a needless slaughter of animals, an affront to human dignity and a colossal waste of precious research funds.
The tests on gay sheep are the latest in a long line of experiments seeking to alter the sexuality of humans and animals.
Günther Dorner, a scientist in the former East Berlin, carried out hormone-altering tests on rodents in the 1960s in the hope of finding a way to eradicate homosexuality.
In 2002, Simon LeVay, an American neurologist, claimed to have discovered that homosexual and heterosexual men had physically different brains. His tests on the corpses of gay men who had died of Aids were widely criticised.
I nominate your post for Headline Title of the Day.
I would be, too, if it would mean aborting potentially gay, (or potentially straight) babies. But the patch thing is another story.
Yikes! but what if some woman in comfortable shoes wanted to wear a patch that would insure that her daughter would grow up to wear comfortable shoes as well? It boggles, it truly does.
That's baaaaaaaaaaaaaad
Its a behavioral choice, not a trait that can be bred out. Natural selection would have done so long ago.
Fools...
There will be no greater opponents of abortion than gays if a genetic link is determined.
Claim homosexuality is a choice? Homos get offended.
Claim homosexuality is not a choice but instead a genetic defect or hormonal imbalance? Homos get offended.
The only explanation that doesn't offend them is that their "orientation" is perfectly healthy and normal. ....even preferred.
Udo Schuklenk, Professor of Bioethics at Glasgow Caledonian University, who has written to the researchers pressing them to stop, said: I dont believe the motives of the study are homophobic, but their work brings the terrible possibility of exploitation by homophobic societies. Imagine this technology in the hands of Iran, for example.
The research, at Oregon State University in the city of Corvallis and at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, has caused an outcry. Martina Navratilova, the lesbian tennis player who won Wimbledon nine times, and scientists and gay rights campaigners in Britain have called for the project to be abandoned.
How do you make a Hormone?
Dont pay her.
Tell it to the sheep.
gay sheep ping!
The existence of a trait does require its human owner to act that trait. (Of course, this statement assumes that the trait is not a psychosis.) For example, heterosexual orientation requires no one to participate in rape, bigamy, prostitution, incest or any other sexual activity. Logically, therefore, the presence of a homosexual orientation (if such exists) requires no one to participate in homosexual activity.
There has to be some "programmed" inclination to making such a choice. Normal guys don't just wake one some day and say, "I think I'll forsake relations with women and go blow somebody". If natural selection took care of everything like you say, nobody would be born retarded either.
OK, there's a combination of words I never thought I'd see used in that order. ;)
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