[Intolerant in NJ]

Yet the opinion he expressed, that homosexuality is a sin, is shared by 45 percent of Americans, according to a recent poll...years ago on one of his many past TV series Dr. Drew Pinsky did a review of a series of experiments at some university which involved functional MRI's or maybe it's CAT scans - the studies recorded activity in various areas of the brain while male and female subjects were shown pictures of nude males and females - the most interesting finding to me was that when most males were shown pictures of males, their amygdala - that part of the brain that serves as a sentry and alerts the individual to novel and possibly dangerous stimuli - lit up in activity (it did not do so for females shown either male or female pictures or males shown female pictures) - even Pinsky, who said he considered himself open-minded with no objectives to homosexuality, found his brain showed the same activity - such studies along with simple old-fashioned experience and common sense suggest that aversion to homosexuality is hard-wired in the human brain, possibly as a remnant from the distant past when it was imperative for human-kind to multiply, and it became advantageous for survival to eliminate anything disrupting reproduction. And this suggests that all the positive propaganda and all the activist threats and intimidation to drive open objection to homosexuality underground will not change basic attitudes toward it......

[HiTech RedNeck]

Might be true, yet beside the point. Men don’t have to hate other men to reject a monkey wanting to get on their back calling them to simulate copulation with one another. Integrating such research with psychology would be more illuminating. I believe it’s ultimately spiritual, and the brain’s role in it is no more than an analogue of the computer’s role to the user of the computer. What windows they open doesn’t tell you anything about the content of the email.

[2ndDivisionVet]

From what I understand, we had a “relief valve” in the distant past where homosexuals would become shamans, witch doctors, healers, pagan priests, magicians, cave or temple artists, ritual dancers, etc. and keep to themselves within those roles or be severely punished.