Posted on 10/17/2015 2:48:31 PM PDT by xzins
This is going to make the LGBT crowd very unhappy (even though they knew this was the case from the start)…
From Daily Wire:
An unpublished UCLA study challenging the societal “born this way” dogma of homosexuality has already been gaining traction in the public media since its presentation at an annual scientific conference last week.
The twin study conducted at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, finds that homosexuality may be triggered by environmental factors after birth. The research uses an algorithm covering epigenetic markers from several genomic sites of 37 sets of identical male twins to predict homosexuality in males, with 70 percent accuracy, as presented at the American Society of Human Genetics 2015 Annual Meeting in Baltimore.
“The finding is highly controversial because it suggests that some men are not born gay, but are turned homosexual by their surroundings,” Sarah Knapton of Telegraph suggested.
Wait a tick…
Does that mean that kids raised by gay parents or who have been unfortunately abused are more prone to becoming gay?
You don’t say?
I feel like conservatives have been saying this for years!
Does this prove beyond all reasonable doubt that gay people choose to be gay?
Yeah, it really does. And more likely than not, there will never be evidence of a gay gene (unless studies are highly falsified like they are with climate change analysis).
As we’ve known since the beginning of time, a baby boy or girl does not develop in the womb with a gene that tells them to be attracted to the opposite sex.
Why liberals still push the lie that people are “born this way” makes little sense, but because so many Americans are uninformed on the issues, they go along with whatever Hollywood celebrities and the mainstream media tell them to.
Sad.
Don’t even get me started on “transgender” BS.
Everything in life is a choice, people.
“In order for a gene to persist in the population, it must be passed on to the offspring. If not, the gene will die out.”
From the same people who support the murder of a child but oppose the execution of a murderer.
Funny how the liberal mind works. Well perhaps ‘mind’ isn’t the proper term. “Funny how the liberal agenda works. Because there is no mind in the traditional sense. There is a program. Or more often, a progrom.
I think the behavior defines the attitude in these things, so I would guess the behavior has ALREADY occurred.
I once saw a study done about births in Germany between 1940-1945 and how there was a larger than usual number of children born during those years who went on to become gay adults. They were considering whether stress was a factor on hormonal production of the mothers.
Then also consider the number of women taking birth control he past 50 years, who then suddenly stop and become pregnant with their hormones all out of whack. Sure, they have enough balance to get pregnant, but to be able to bathe the child's brain with necessary hormones during first trimester to produce a normally functioning brain? Plastic contaminants in food containers, etc., also affect hormone regulation in the body, as well as antibiotics, chemicals in food, and prescription drugs in the public water supply.
Just my theory. I would love to ask Dr. carson's opinion.
Well, all I am saying is that if someone thinks:
1) People choose to have SSA, and
2) That the immorality of same-sex sex acts stems from the “fact” that people choose to have SSA,
then that person is way off-base.
People with SSA know that they did not choose to have SSA. Therefore, if they are given the impression that “Christian morality” is based on the belief that they DID choose to have SSA, they will rightly reject “Christian morality” as foolish and counter-factual.
All sexual activity, except between husband and wife, in acts that are in themselves apt for the transmission of life, are sinful. That is the REAL kernel of Christian teaching on sexual morality. What individual people are attracted to, or tempted by, is an entirely distinct matter.
Authentic Christian sexual morality has absolutely nothing to do with theories about HOW people come to be attracted to acts other than licit sexual acts between husband and wife.
And I’m saying nothing about anything except the interplay between behavior and attitudes. In this instance, I believe the behavior precedes the attitude.
Homosexuality is not genetic. Homosexuality is a congenital birth defect that has been eliminated in livestock and can be eliminated in humans as well. If a mother supplements with a full spectrum of major and trace minerals, they have a much better chance of not having homosexual children.
I’ll have to think about that one.
The LGBT community would like there to be a biological basis for what in most cases is a choice or a result of their life experiences. With what I know about genetics and evolution, the possibility of "gayness" being attributed to genetics alone has never made any sense to me.
Lol those “jeans” definitely have something gay going on.
I think a pastor, teacher, or parent, for instance, would have have grounds to wonder whether a kid who "come out" as gay (SSA) at 12 were molested somewhere along the line... But I don't think it's necessarily the case.
I am no expert, but from what I read, a not-insignificant number of young people experience SSA in early adolescence, don't "do" anything that crosses a line, and their feelings eventually mature into natural man-woman desires by their 20's.
It’s nature’s way of thinning the herd when the land can’t sustain an overpopulated community. Farmers only return 3 minerals to their crops when they plant but all other minerals become depleted after a few generations. This was discovered in the seventies by the Feds.
If that’s what you believe, then you will never get a hearing from people with SSA, because their personal experience contradicts your belief.
It is true that many, many “gay” people were sexually abused in some way as children, but most experienced attraction to the same sex before the abuse occurred, and even before puberty.
If people are to be persuaded that authentic Christian sexual morality is the way to go, confronting them with theories that contradict their personal experience is a doomed approach.
“I have known a couple relatively small lumberjacks.”
Interestingly to me there was a documentary on the “old time” lumberjacks on TV which I have watched twice. This was about the guys who cut the really big timber back before the day of the chain saw. According to the report the “Paul Bunyan” type guy was very rare! They said there was occasionally someone who was six three and two thirty or bigger but most were around five seven and a hundred and fifty five pounds but these guys consumed on average SEVEN THOUSAND OR MORE CALORIES PER DAY. Sunday was their only day off and they sometimes would fight on Sunday to burn off their “excess energy”. I can tell anyone from experience on the farm growing up that if you spend the day swinging an axe and or pulling one end of a two man saw you WILL consume huge amounts of food or starve. I could easily eat as much in one meal then as I eat all day now.
But in those cases, finding opposite-sex spouses and reproducing was the result of societal pressure to be normal. If we remove societal pressure from the discussion and look solely at the proposed evolutionary science of the mythical gay gene, it becomes clear that such a gene would not be propagated.
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