Posted on 06/26/2014 7:09:25 PM PDT by NetAddicted
CHICAGO – The results of a comprehensive scientific study released earlier this year suggest that homosexuality cannot be directly traced to a ‘gay gene,’ but is instead dependent on a variety of factors, including environmental and social influences.
Pro-homosexual activists have long claimed that homosexuality and abnormal “sexual orientations” are primarily caused by genetic factors. They argue that individuals with a hereditary “gay gene” are predisposed toward same-sex attractions and thus unable to appreciate traditional marriages.
However, scientific findings released earlier this year during the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago call this premise into question. During the meeting, Michael Bailey of Northwestern University unveiled comprehensive research results which suggest that genetics alone do not determine “sexual orientation.”
In his research, Bailey and other scientists examined the DNA of 400 men who described themselves as homosexual. Ultimately, the researchers concluded that homosexuality cannot be traced to specific genes.
“The genes were neither sufficient, nor necessary, to make any of the men gay,” wrote Ian Sample, science correspondent for The Guardian.
The findings show that it is impossible to accurately predict a person’s sexual behavior by solely examining DNA.
“The flawed thinking behind a genetic test for sexual orientation is clear from studies of twins, which show that the identical twin of a gay man, who carries an exact replica of his brother’s DNA, is more likely to be straight than gay,” The Guardian article continues. “That means even a perfect genetic test that picked up every gene linked to sexual orientation would still be less effective than flipping a coin.”
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Alan Sanders, a Northwestern University professor who led the recent study, confirmed that the “gay gene” theory is largely unfounded.
“We don’t think genetics is the whole story,” Sanders stated, according to The Telegraph. “It’s not.”
Though the scientists maintained that genetics do at least partly influence sexual orientation, these recent findings undermine the belief that homosexuality is predetermined. Environmental factors, such as the absence of a father or an unhealthy domestic upbringing, might play significant roles.
Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association says the scientific findings show that homosexual behavior is ultimately an individual choice.
“Without a genetic causation, sexual preference in behavior is clearly a choice, a choice which no one is compelled to make,” Fischer wrote in a column last week. “And that choice can be evaluated in any number of ways, including whether or not it is good for human health and whether or not same-sex households are sub-optimal nurturing environments for vulnerable young children.”
“If homosexual conduct is ultimately a matter of choice,” Fischer continued, “then the homosexual lobby has nothing, because homosexual conduct is clearly harmful to human beings in any number of ways, not the least of which is serving as the leading cause of HIV/AIDS, which can leave young men disease-ridden and destined for an early grave.”
“I am not persuaded that genes are even a contributing factor,” he added. “But even if they are, the great news is that if individuals are not biologically predetermined to pursue the homosexual lifestyle, then change is possible as a matter of scientific fact. This leads to one simple, salient truth: there is hope for the homosexual.”
God created a magnificent angel known as Lucifer, the Light Bearer, but gave Lucifer free will. Lucifer misused that free will to rebel against God together with Lucifer's followers among the angels. Some believe that the issue was that God had created angels to serve members of the human race and that the rebellious angels were too proud to do so. They responded with "Non serviam" or "I shall not serve." They were driven from heaven instantaneously and simultaneously.
No, there is no specific Scriptural account that I know of but the foregoing us a venerable tradition.
IIRC, there are Scriptural accounts of numerous angels and archangels: Gabriel at the Annunciation, Raphael the Healer in the Old Testament, many ranks of angels as a heavenly choir celebrating the birth of Jesus, for three examples.
If YOU choose to prolong this exchange, I will be back after errands.
Again, I have pressing errands but will gladly continue when I get back.
May God bless you and yours!
“but gave Lucifer free will.
That was a BIG mistake!
“To attain full adulthood in the eyes of the Lord”
I am not sure what you mean by this.
The term points to the fact that here is a problem.
The Catholic system (sorry) is sometimes so full of itself that it doesn’t have an effectively clear view of the solution.
That is pretty much a scriptural paraphrase.
“That is pretty much a scriptural paraphrase.”
Which scripture?
social, yep they surely stated the obvious there.
you are joking right?
Eph 4:15 for one
Why can’t Christians accept the obvious: homosexuality is part of God’s plan. If it isn’t, why does it exist?
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Why can’t liberals accept the obvious: homophobia is part of God’s plan. If it isn’t, why does it exist?
“Eph 4:15 for one”
4:15 Into him - Into his image and Spirit, and into a full union with him.
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Personally I believe the left is largely simply opportunistic with its slogans. The core leadership doesn’t really believe them but they use them because they are effective if not truthful. They never let truth get in the way of a good marketing strategy.
My problem is that I’ve never seen a copy of “God’s Plan,” so it is difficult to know just what it is. Please don’t say it’s The Bible, because it seems to be all over the place. Everybody talks about His plan, but it all seems to be just a matter of opinion.
You’re laughing?
I try not to pick unnecessary fights among Christians.
God bless you and yours!
I also try not to pick unnecessary fights among conservatives on a conservative website which seems quite welcoming to all of us without regard to differences solely of creed.
See #117.
The trouble point is the claim (and evangelical churches sometimes do this as well, with equally self-hobbling results): “God said our institution comes up with all the right answers.” The more a particular Christian has had unmistakably supernatural experience of the actual Lord, a Spirit who lives up to His biblical credentials and who conquers lesser spirits, the less he or she will be to fall into this difficulty. If honest, we find ourselves at times to be uncomfortably God-phobic. We’ve got more sin than we would like to believe we do. And the actual grace of God amazes more and more.
And ultimately “sexual perversions” are seen as wrong not because a church said so, but because the exquisite merit of the plan that the Lord ordained shows those distortions up for the phoniness that they are.
To be blunt, sinful humanity, when dealing with this kind of love, is so often like bulls in a china shop.
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