Posted on 05/31/2018 2:38:55 PM PDT by Ennis85
Half of Americans in Gallup's 2018 Values and Beliefs poll say that being gay or lesbian is a trait from birth, easily eclipsing the 30% who believe it is a product of upbringing and environment. This is consistent with findings over the past few years. Another 10% say both explanations play a role, while 4% attribute being gay to something else and 6% are unsure.
When Gallup first asked this "nature vs. nurture" question in 1977, a majority of U.S. adults (56%) said being gay or lesbian was due to people's upbringing and environment, and only 13% saw it as a birth trait. Attitudes didn't shift markedly until after 1989. Between 1989 and Gallup's next update in 1996, the percentage believing sexual orientation is determined at birth jumped from 19% to 31%, and reached 40% by 2001. Opinion remained steady for the next 12 years, as Americans were roughly split between the two positions. Since 2012, the percentage assigning sexual orientation to nature rather than nurture has inched up another 10 percentage points.
This year's Values and Beliefs poll, conducted May 1-10, also shows 67% of Americans in favor of same-sex marriages being legal -- a new high for that viewpoint. Separately, Gallup recently reported that the percentage of Americans identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender has increased a full point since 2012 and is now 4.5%.
The perception that a person is born gay rather than it being the result of upbringing or other factors has increased among all demographic and political groups. But, according to a comparison of aggregated data from 2001 to 2003 vs. 2015 to 2018, the change in beliefs has been most pronounced among politically left-leaning groups, including young adults (aged 18 to 34), college graduates, Democrats, liberals and those who seldom or never
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Professor Lysenko—Professor Trofim Lysenko—Please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Heard on the science channel.. octopus dna came from a super nova. Dont forget the scientist that said the Himalayas would melt by 2027. These guys are so much smarter than the normals.
“Homosexuality is nature’s way of telling you that you are too defective to reproduce.” - anon
Clowns who have an orgasm every time some other clown in the “media” asks them for their opinion about something. It makes them feel so “educated” and “intelligent” when they regurgitate back to some moronic pollster something that they had heard on a liberal “news” show.
I stumbled across that conspiracy theory as I was wandering YouTube and couldnt believe it. I thought conspiracy mongering had hit its low with the 9/11 truther idiocy, but I was wrong. And once I had viewed that moronic video, of course it suggested others that were similar, which opened my eyes to how truly stupid many, particularly the Millennials, have become.
I suspect some of these conspiracy videos are just concocted by scammers who want to take advantage of the pathetically gullible (of which, judging by the video comments, there are many) in order to fish for views, but others are clearly posted by true believers. Regardless, the number of commenters on the videos who buy into this crap is scary.
Brothers on a road less traveled
It's too bad we can't have an honest debate about ex-gays as gays and others will do anything to shut down the discussion
There may be something to this.
I heard that instead of slapping the rear end of newborns in order to help clear the airway, some doctors tickle it.
This is why the fags have been denying the "nature" argument.
Anyone that doesn’t say Nature is uneducated and has no idea what a chromosome is.
Overbearing, controlling, manipulative mothers were blamed in the mid-20th century. Afterwards more blame was put on the weak or absent or "shadowy" fathers.
Nowadays, it's easier for young people to "discover" that they're homosexual. There's a lot of exposure to sex and pornography and those who don't respond to the opposite sex are more likely to conclude that they're homosexual early on.
I think parents today tend to correspond less to the old stereotypes. You can point to the mother as "overbearing" or the father as "shadowy" or ineffectual, but it takes a lot less of that to make boys homosexual nowadays. So even in families who take care to avoid the old behaviors, children grow up gay.
It also indicates our emotions and thoughts are beyond our control. We are slaves to genes. This theory is why so many “educated” PhDs are saying that pedophilia is a sexual orientation and only the action is wrong.
Around puberty, or even years before, kids feel attraction to one gender or the other. You (plural to all FReepers) did. Not every child is attracted to the opposite sex, even if they were never groomed or molested by either sex.
Face it. Attraction is NOT a choice at that age. A boy who wants another boy to kiss him, the way you may have wanted a cute girl to kiss you, didnt choose it, wasnt forced into it.
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No one has ever been born queer.
Queer is 100% social creation of various forms.
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The left says, “You Are Born Gay” (but you can choose your gender). Settled science.
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>> “ A boy who wants another boy to kiss him, the way you may have wanted a cute girl to kiss you, didnt choose it, wasnt forced into it.” <<
You’re obviously not a male!
What you’re talking about is completely the result of social conditions in the life of the individual.
I just cannot believe little heterosexual boys can be converted to want a %%%%% up their anuses. Just can’t. Maybe because I’m a flaming heterosexual!
Heterosexual people who are molested / have sex with/ the same sex find out that you dont die from it and the body can perform in it. Even if you have zero attraction to the same sex. Many prisoners find this out. Many probably close their eyes and pretend it is the opposite sex doing the act. It doesnt change their orientation.
Imagine you were drugged like the woman described today with Bill Cosby. She was still conscious but unable to control her body or her voice. And he has sex with her against her will, and she could do nothing but lie there. This COULD happen to you. Would you be attracted to men forever more after that experience???? (Correct response: hell to the No)
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