Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage Will Increase Prevalence of Homosexuality (

http://www.narth.com ^ | 14 October 2008 | By Trayce Hansen, Ph.D.

[Maelstorm]

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  Trayce Hansen, PhD

  Dr. Trayce L. Hansen is a licensed psychologist with a clinical and forensic practice. She received her Ph.D. from the California School of Professional Psychology, San Diego, in 1997. Dr. Hansen’s professional experience is varied and includes work in multiple clinical as well as forensic settings. She is particularly interested in issues related to marriage, parenting, male/female differences, and homosexuality. Dr. Hansen has extensively reviewed the research literature in these areas and occasionally writes commentaries based on her findings that have been published worldwide. She has been heard on local and national radio and interviewed by the web and print media. Dr. Hansen also consults on legal cases and has testified in both deposition and court hearings related to her professional expertise.

[SoConPubbie]

Well DUH!

[RobbyS]

Sure. Many “straights”already do. Most gays are living a libertine life style, and likewise the “straights” for whom marriage in the historical sense is a “tender trap.”

[MAD-AS-HELL]

oh come on....while I am 100% against homosexual marriage, there is no basis in this bogus research. It’s junk science.

[I_Like_Spam]

I’m not suprised by the results of the study.

Man still has free will to determine his own behavior, in spite of what some would say.

[SoConPubbie]

oh come on....while I am 100% against homosexual marriage, there is no basis in this bogus research. It’s junk science.

Oh please yourself!

This is just common-sense, you give something legitimacy and the blessing of the State, all you are telling everyone is that it is OK to live a deviant lifestyle.

Men/Women do not struggle to be bad or selfish. It is a struggle to do the right thing.

Take away the stigma and prohibition for a lifestyle that can be summed up as selfishness, and you will have more people succombing to this lifestyle.

[fleagle]

Not sure I'm buying it...although I did know a few male theater majors in school who became gayer and gayer as they became more involved in theater, but then when they graduated from college got married and had kids. Not sure what that was all about.

I also know some females who've suddenly "turned" gay after having had many unsuccessful relationships with men.

So there may be some environmental and societal factors going on, but most gays I know are, well, gay and that's pretty much that.

[Paved Paradise]

You are completely wrong. One of the most obvious evidentiary supports for this is what occurs within prison system. People who otherwise never practiced homosexuality or lesbianism suddenly do and when they get out, they leave that behind. Strictly environmental.

[Iron Munro]

"I warned you!"

[Maelstorm]

I know. I bet you didn’t hear about this in the media though. I bet you didn’t hear it on Glen Beck or Rush Limbaugh. We are fighting this battle alone. What is interesting about this study is that urban men without fathers are the most likely to be adversely effected.

[Maelstorm]

It is not bogus research or is it bogus just because a homosexual liberal global warming believer told you so?

[MAD-AS-HELL]

but do they end up practicing homosexuality when they get out of prison? And prison is a MUCH different scenario than what happens in the real world. Many guys have to have sex to avoid physical harm (other than to their rectum). You are comparing APPLES AND ORANGES.

[SoConPubbie]

What is interesting about this study is that urban men without fathers are the most likely to be adversely effected.

Which is just common sense as well.

[BallyBill]

I ain't buying it. I can see why legalizing drugs might increase use, but ...well, I just keeping gagging on the thought that straight people will turn gay by choice.

[a fool in paradise]

Will it do anything to reduce promiscuity among homosexuals or will these be marriages in name only?

[a fool in paradise]

well, I just keeping gagging on the thought that straight people will turn gay by choice.

Except for high school girls, lesbians until graduation (college), etc, right?

[MAD-AS-HELL]

yeah that’s it.....better watch out, you might not only catch the swine flu but you might catch the gay bug!

[edcoil]

“Extensive research...reveals that homosexuality is primarily environmentally induced.”

So being gay is caused by global warming?

[MAD-AS-HELL]

ok, if we can prove that Buttcrack Obama is light in his air jordan’s then I will say this has some merit.

[stripes1776]

I’m not suprised by the results of the study. Man still has free will to determine his own behavior, in spite of what some would say.

Perhaps man has free will, but what does that have to do with the study? The study says that sexual behavior is determined by environment. If a particular behavior is determined by environment, then in that context that behavior is not determined by free will.

Here is the main conclusion of the study: "Instead of genetic factors, these Scandinavian studies concluded that unique environmental factors play the largest role in the development of homosexual behavior." If environmental factors develop a particular behavior, then that behavior is not the result of free will on the part of an individual.

Psychological behaviorists are determinists. They use statistical methods. They assume that there is some social factor that determines a particular behavior. Statistical, quantitavie methods do not offer any possibility of studying free will.

A man exercising free will would refuse to let environmental factors determine his behavior.