[ClearCase_guy]

Little Adam is mentally ill. With treatment, he could probably become a normal boy.

But providing treatment to cure his illness is double-plus ungood.

[little jeremiah]

Will read later when I have the stomach for it. Once I got to the boy with the Bratz doll and sparkly nailpolish, my stomach revolted.

I'm curious how old these kids are (probably article says when I read it later) and why is their mother allowing this crap to go on?

[little jeremiah]

Forced myself to read it and get it over with.

Incredible steaming pile of lies and assertions with absolutely no basis in fact.

It's a total fairy tale.

[SIDENET]

This article is gay.

[digger48]

It starts out with dolls and a little nail polish...

[llevrok]

The only sexual orientation I worry about is whether my compass points north, not south.

[A CA Guy]

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[VOA]

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[gusopol3]

In the study, volunteers were asked to rate each child's femininity or masculinity. Stahl took the test and rated two girls highly feminine. When shown video of a toddler girl running a truck off of a table, Stahl observed, "She's really not girly. Isn't that interesting? She’s not girly."

Amazing, the way they twist themselves in knots, because if this were a story about the way the system victimizes girls, this would be the epitome of anti-feminism

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Another *AIDS-gifter* in the making. What a sad waste of space. Parents should have put him into a summer football camp or the Scouts, where he can do normal things, unlike fingernail polish and dolls. Jeeeeez, what were they thinking when they allowed him to do that crap?

[william clark]

Psychologists used to believe homosexuality was caused by nurture — namely overbearing mothers and distant fathers — but that theory has been disproved.

Hardly. More like shouted down.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

The current edition of Scientific American: Mind has an article on this subject. It says that the genetic component is only about 0.25 (going on memory here). Further -- it states that there is a spectrum of "gayness", and only the hard core, who are totally attracted to the same sex, cannot be changed to prefer the opposite sex.

Unfortunately, you have to pay to view the article. They do, however, have a free quiz to determine: "How Gay are You?" -- here's the URL:

http://www.sciammind.com/page.cfm?section=quiz

[isrul]

"Adam's behavior is called childhood gender nonconformity, meaning a child whose interests and behaviors are more typical of the opposite sex. "

So Adam is a sissy and will probably be a culattoni when he gets older. Regarding nurture. What kind of parent allows a 9 year old child to wear nail polish to school?

[John O]

But a male rat did.(perform like a female) He was castrated at birth, depriving him of testosterone.

So the way you make a 'gay' is take a healthy male and damage it? That lines up exactly with what we've been saying all along. 'Homosexuals' are mentally diseased

[Unam Sanctam]

The fact is that the question of whether homosexual activity is moral has nothing to do with the causation of deep-seated homosexual attraction. Whether it is from birth or environment, it is deep-seated and some and those are called to live chastely.

[BadAndy]

I think it was interesting that 60 minutes seemed to be making the case that being gay was a DISORDER. Think about all the piddly things that are considered disorders nowadays but being unable to relate properly to the opposite sex is considered normal. Serious gender identiy issues and attraction to the same sex is now "Normal" according to psychological "experts". This position is scientifically and logically flawed to the extent that it should be an untenable argument. We should push the obvious conclusion that being gay is a disorder.

[TheOracleAtLilac]

A truly disgusting & biased segment on 60 Minutes.
Any surprise ?

Doesn't it occur to these dim bulbs that, unlike other siblings, twins are competing for parents' attention in same time frame
i.e. some need to distinguish themselves - sometimes to extreme.

It's common knowledge that a "dominant" twin emerges in the early years.

How did 60 Min. find these freaks ? (surely, not by accident)

I suspect parental complicity/enabling in what was viewed last night.

[MrBlueSky2005]

wait...9 years old?? Do these kids not have parents? What child would buy their nine year old SON a Bratz doll (I wouldn't even get one of those things for my daughter, but thats another issue...) or go to school with NAIL polish? Ugh...I can only imagin what my father would have done had he found me wearing nail polish.

[Tony O]

I've thought for quite a while that homosexuality is a psychological disorder, not genetic, and that many homosexuals can be helped through therapy.

However, now that the condition is considered "normal", by the APA, the therapy isn't available.