I can't possibly imagine myself becomming a liberal. Yet, I don't think I was with a conservative "gene". My parents were conservative, and I came of age politically in a conservative place. My early experience in working (In the US Air Force) was also a very conservative place. I don't doubt at all that had I grown up in Greenwitch Villiage I'd be liberal, and perhaps even gay.
There's the idea that gays corrupt the young. Some may, but as science repeatedly points out, most episodes of sexual abuse involving adults and children are perpetrated by heterosexuals.
Huh, yeah. I think that there are lots more hertosexuals in the world, so the odds favor that. But I strongly think that a "hertosexual" male messing with a boy can no longer be considered hertosexual. At best, he's bisexual, by definition.
A close friend of mine related a story of a professor in 1950's fly over country who regularly recruited young men. The prof was married (to a female), but liked to fool around with male students. At least one student he picked up stayed gay. Another he picked up had a serious mental problem with it, and tried to commit suicide before he figured out he liked girls despite his experience with the prof.
One of the biggest lies out there is that gays are "born that way". And the second biggest lie out there is that they "don't recruit".
Maybe some people are "born that way". And maybe not all gays "recruit". But some people I personally know chose to be gay/bisexual after being seduced. And certianly some gays go for young men with the hope they can "change" them.