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Scientists May Have Found a Biological Basis for Homosexuality.That Could Be Bad News for Gays.
Slate ^ | June 28, 2013 | Mark Joseph Stern

Posted on 06/28/2013 12:26:39 PM PDT by lbryce

Full Title: Born This Way? Scientists may have found a biological basis for homosexuality. That could be bad news for gay rights.

“Baby, you were born this way.” As soon as Lady Gaga sang these words on her smash hit "Born This Way," they became a rallying cry for gay people around the world, an anthem for sexual minorities facing discrimination. The shiny, catchy song carries an empowering (if simple) message: Don’t be ashamed about being gay, or bi, or trans, or anything—that’s just how you were born. Gaga later named her anti-bullying charity after the same truism, and two filmmakers borrowed it for their documentary exposing homophobia in Africa. A popular "Born This Way" blog encourages users to submit reflections on “their innate LGBTQ selves.” Need a quick, pithy riposte against anti-gay bigotry? Baby, we were born this way.

But were we? That’s the foundational question behind the gay rights movement—and its opponents. If gay people were truly born that way, the old canard of homosexuality as a “lifestyle choice” (or “sexual preference”) is immediately disproven. But if gay people weren’t born that way, if scientists were unable to find any biological basis for sexual orientation, then the Family Research Council crowd could claim vindication in its fight to label homosexuality unnatural, harmful, and against nature.

In recent years, scientists have proposed various speculative biological bases for homosexuality but never settled on an answer. As researchers draw closer to uncovering an explanation, however, a new question has arisen: What if in some cases sexuality is caused by an identifiable chemical process in the womb?SNIP

That is one implication of one of the most widely accepted hypotheses thus far proposed. And if it’s true, it could turn out to be a blow for the gay rights movement.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: gayrights; gays; homolinks; homosexualagenda; homosexuallinks
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

Then probably the same thing. People will do what they want to do, and explain it with any old fiction that makes them feel good.


101 posted on 06/28/2013 5:07:22 PM PDT by Tax-chick (I want shrimp tacos.)
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To: B4Ranch
Gay animals have actually been sighted in the midst of doing what gay creatures do.
I myself have seen two separate incidents on video of animals involved in what seemed like gay sex. The problem here of course is what actually were these animals doing? Well, it seemed like they were involved in gay sex. Two animals of the same sex copulating or whatever they were doing.

Of course, to determine whether it was gay sex is monumental to prove. You can't ask them if they're involved in gay sex, and any activity observed is open to interpretation as to what they were doing.

But left-wing, liberal scientists had no problem declaring it as gay sex to prove that it occurs in the wild and is considered normal but there is no way to prove it.

My question to you is, how do you know there aren't any gay animals?

102 posted on 06/28/2013 5:20:09 PM PDT by lbryce (BHO:"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds by way Oppenheimer at Trinity NM)
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To: lbryce
BS.

Homosexuals are suffering emotional wounds and have chosen to obsessively focus on sex as a defense mechanism.

103 posted on 06/28/2013 5:30:28 PM PDT by Vision (We are not descended from fearful men)
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To: lbryce

I have seen probably a dozen young bulls hop up on another young bull. Never have I seen one insert his penis into the other ones anus. I considered this more of young guys dry humping each other for a moment. Never to ejaculation either. This wasn’t a repeated effort. Just a one time jump amongst the hundreds of young bulls out on the ranch.

So if I had to make a bet II would say there is no such thing as gay animals who are living in their normal terrain.


104 posted on 06/28/2013 5:43:31 PM PDT by B4Ranch (AGENDA: Grinding America Down ----- http://vimeo.com/63749370)
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To: MrB

>>It means it’s a defect and not “normal”, like they’re trying to shove down our throats.

This is an interesting area where both Christians and thinking Darwinists can come to agreement.


105 posted on 06/28/2013 5:46:55 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: heartwood

Pedophilia may well have a biological basis to some degree - a disproportionate number of pedophiles have low intelligence, short stature, low set ears - something not right there.

Is that true? I have never heard about that before.
What about their eyes?


106 posted on 06/28/2013 5:50:52 PM PDT by savage woman (if we lose communication - see ya at the local library)
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To: Tax-chick

if two prospective parents thought their child would be gay, they might abort it...


107 posted on 06/28/2013 6:30:14 PM PDT by cherry
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To: B4Ranch; lbryce

I’m pretty sure that’s more of a dominance/pecking order thing. Alpha female dogs have been known to mount passive males.


108 posted on 06/28/2013 7:34:32 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Actually, it will throw an insane monkey with a wrench into their machinery.


109 posted on 06/28/2013 7:35:20 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: heartwood
a disproportionate number of pedophiles have low intelligence, short stature, low set ears

Not unlike a baboon. Perhaps, baboons prefer younger mates.

110 posted on 06/28/2013 7:44:06 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Homosexuality a birth defect and liberalism a mental disorder! Wow! JACKPOT!


111 posted on 06/28/2013 7:51:21 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Tax-chick
It will be made illegal to abort homos. The leftists will be in a tizzy, but cognitive dissonance has always be a mark of the left.
112 posted on 06/28/2013 7:56:56 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse

That’s kind of what I think but it’s difficult to visualize when there’s forty young bulls in a pen who are being sorted and you only have a moment to see them perform the hop.


113 posted on 06/28/2013 7:58:30 PM PDT by B4Ranch (AGENDA: Grinding America Down ----- http://vimeo.com/63749370)
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To: lbryce

That means there is a cure.


114 posted on 06/28/2013 8:01:08 PM PDT by WriteOn (Truth)
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To: lbryce

It’s a lifestyle choice. Priests choose to be celibate. Gay people could do the same. So could anyone else.


115 posted on 06/28/2013 8:02:49 PM PDT by greeneyes (Moderation in defense of your country is NO virtue. Let Freedom Ring.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
All fetuses up to that point are female. At that time, hormones that determine the sex of the child are released.

Oversimplification: Up to a certain point in gestation, a male fetus cannot be distinguished from a female one, except chromosomally. After all, a male fetus has both X and Y chromosomes, while a female has two X chromosomes.

All fetuses begin their development as females. This is when the X chromosome that both sexes carry influences the development of the fetus. After some point, the effects of the Y chromosome (hormones, etc.) transform the fetus into a male, while in the absence of the Y chromosome, the fetus continues to develop as a female.

In that sense, all males are genetically mutated females.

116 posted on 06/28/2013 8:18:22 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: reg45
In that sense, all males are genetically mutated females.

No.

The child is either male or female from conception. The fact that we can not tell the difference in the beginning with out a DNA test does not mean that they are all female it just means that we can't tell.

A boy (XY) is not "turned into a male" he always was a male.

117 posted on 06/29/2013 8:49:34 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
Based upon the X chromosome, all males are one half female. Female is the norm, male is the exception. What I am saying is that the common (female - X chromosome) aspects of the human being develop first and then, if the fetus has a Y chromosome, it becomes male.

Think about an automobile, if you look at the chassis, without a body, you cannot tell if it will eventually become a sedan, a coupe, or a convertable. Only later in the production process can the difference be observed. Even so, the production ticket may designate the end result from the beginning.

118 posted on 06/29/2013 9:39:08 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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