Posted on 02/05/2010 5:28:20 AM PST by Loyalist
It's a question which has troubled science since Darwin: if homosexuality is, at least in part, inherited, how are those genes being passed down to new generations?
Canadian researchers say they have found the first evidence to back up the theory that gay men have the evolutionary advantage of being "super uncles", a way of enhancing the survival prospects of close relatives and -- indirectly, at least -- making it more likely their genes are passed on.
Paul Vasey, associate professor in the University of Lethbridge's department of psychology, said his research found evidence that gay men may be more willing to support their nieces and nephews financially and emotionally.
The idea is that homosexuals are helping their close relatives reproduce more successfully and at a higher rate by being helpful: babysitting more, tutoring their nieces and nephews in art and music, and helping out financially with things like medical care and education.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
Evolutionary philosophy combined with the “gay gene” mythology; throw in global warming and you have a trifecta of unproven ideologies.
Wow.... That’s a lot to words to say: “They Can’t Reproduce, So They Have to Recruit”.
I don’t understand what would be proved if there is a genetic component. Let’s say there is something in biology that makes one gay. Huntington’s chorea is genetic; but the dementia that often accompanies it is not something we make concessions for...schizophrenia has a genetic component, but you don’t hear anyone arguing that we should any alternate realities that arise from the disease as valid...as far as I know, no schizophrenics have filed a suit alleging violation of their civil rights because during their last break they really were Abraham Lincoln (in their personal world).
I’d be happy to say, FINE, you have a gay gene. And? You need help and treatment, not extra special rights to maintain your ‘alternate lifestyle’. What’s next, ‘alternate reality’ lobbyists?
“Celebrating” or giving rights based on this “alternative lifestyle” is simply enabling people to continue their destructive behavior, even if you stay out of the God given moral realm.
It’s like making special allowances for alcoholics and drug addicts so that they can continue destroying themselves with their chemical dependency.
You won’t shout as I fiddle about . . . .
I coached my kids baseball teams for 13 years. I figured out really quick that kids can see through crap. No, they don’t buy the PC nonsense. Two examples:
1. There is a “minority” of “minority” kids at my son’s high school, but last year they hung out at the intersection of two hallways and intimidated the white kids who would pass through. What was the term the white kids used for that location? They called it “42nd & Post” which is an intersection in the city known for drugs, gangs and shootings. So much for “diversity training.”
2. My older son and his friends were filling out college applications. Some of them wanted scholarships. They advised each other that if you wanted one, you had to say you were African-American or you could forget it.
When it comes to rubber meeting the road in the real world, kids are not fooled by PC garbage.
Yes, perhaps it’s simple as the “Survival of the Fittest” where as a homosexual gene is produced due to a poor genetic profil that ‘nature’ sees as not worthy enough to breed or pass along as a human. In other terms; “To stop this ingrate from making humans like him, we’ll make him like males only and eventually his type will fade away.”
Too simple?
STEAMING BULLSQUEEZE!
Homosexuality is an Evolutionary dead-end!
Time for another exciting episode of Gay Super Uncle and Chief Chickenhawk. Their advantage is access.
Kids must end up buying the garbage in high school. By the time they get to college they are on their way to being good little PC soldiers. Too bad they don’t stay as savvy as when they were young.
Proceeding from a false premise, makes all that follows faulty reasoning.
Homosexuality is no more inherited than is being a thief, rapist, pedophile, adulterer, etc.
um, no, what is going on with the uncle phenom., is simply old fashioned molestation...the number one recruitment tool of homos
Evolution, the omni-theory, strikes again. Even explains my wife’s shopping habits. At least this “study” was on the Canadians’ dime this time.
“...higher population densities had a higher incidence of homosexual behavior...”
If that were true, New York would be full of them. Oh, wait...
Wait a minute... I thought there was no such thing as a gay gene...LOL
How does a man get sex in such a culture? By giving presents to the family of the girl you're interested in. Given a choice between a handsome man with no gifts, and an ugly man who brings food or other valuable gifts, the girl's family will give her to the guy with the stuff. It becomes a brothel society.
In a brothel society, it is to the advantage of the tribe that a number of their sons do not spend tribal money chasing after girls of other tribes, and get their sexual satisfaction more cheaply.
So....homosexuals are really enablers of heterosexuals? Well, I guess that’s alright then.
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These social students, let’s not call them “scientists”, missed a major participant in the game. “Heterosexual but not reproductive.”
Unlike some cherry picked society, in all societies, there are men and women who do not reproduce, but are not homosexuals. While they usually *want* to reproduce, it “just doesn’t happen for them.”
In western cultures, these were the “maiden aunts” who remained with the family, and “bachelor uncles”, who went off on physical, or at least intellectual adventures. Lots of variation to this.
In China, respectable women who could not be married due to lack of dowry, or other reasons, to survive had a social alternative to prostitution, of becoming “Amah”. They would be adopted, in a way, by another household, not as servants, but treated much like a “maiden aunt”. They would perform some household chores, such as being a nanny, some light cooking and cleaning, in exchange for room, board and a stipend. They would have their own quarters, apart from the servants quarters, and were expected to neither date nor marry.
Granted, there is some overlap among heterosexual but not reproducing, and homosexuals, since they both find themselves outside of the mainstream of family oriented society.
But instead of the “super uncle” concept, either group can apply itself to creativity denied to adults with children. That is, children take an enormous amount of time and energy, leaving most parents with little extra to create and develop new ideas.
In the absence of children, adults are free to advance society in other ways. Importantly, this is probably not oriented to their family, but to their own interests, so looking for “super uncles” will probably not have much luck.
As an aside, grandparents fill the role of “extra parents” in many cultures, and are clearly interested in helping to raise their grandchildren. This has even been documented in what is called the “grandmother mortality phenomenon”. When grandchildren reach a particular cultural age, in which they are accepted as adults, there is a sudden spike of mortality among their grandmothers.
That is, when the kids graduate high school, grandmother dies. It happens far too often to not be statistically noted. Yet there doesn’t seem to be an equivalent effect with grandfathers. Such a powerful relationship does not carry over to other members of the family, either, such as aunts and uncles.
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