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To: DH
Many posts have shown absolute PROOF that there is no gay gene and here you are coming up with something so stupid as to shock those with a brain that accepts rational and logical scientific proof.

Actually there were only 3 posts before your #36 that gave an argument of why there can be no gay gene.

#4 (also your post) and #12 give the same argument, that twin studies prove there can be no gay gene. But this type of study doesn't show whether there could be genes that just make it more likely that a baby could grow up to be gay.

#11 gives the argument that "gay genes" would be self-eliminating. But this is not necessarily true. For instance it is known that mothers who give birth to gay sons turn out to have more sons. So if there are genes that make it more likely that someone is gay, this effect compensates for the fewer children from the gay sons.

Note that I admitted earlier that there may be no gay gene. But I still think that someone could be gay from birth in the sense that the wiring in their brain was already set up in utero to turn out this way. People with cerebral palsy are that way from birth even though that is rarely due to genes.

Inquiring minds need to know....are you gay?

No, in my whole life I have never been sexually attracted to males (I am male) nor have I ever engaged in any homosexual activity (or wanted to). And I'm too old to start now.

By the way, although I have commented on various similar threads during over a decade on FR, I think you are the first one to ask if I was gay, although probably lots of other posters assumed that. I figure that not everyone who has argued with me on this topic could make the same statement I did.

48 posted on 07/13/2015 7:45:57 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: wideminded

You wrote “But I still think that someone could be gay from birth in the sense that the wiring in their brain was already set up in utero to turn out this way.”

You “THINK” but can you prove it? I await your scientific response.


52 posted on 07/14/2015 5:36:16 AM PDT by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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