Posted on 09/07/2014 7:07:57 PM PDT by WXRGina
If homosexuality was genetic, it would have been bred out of the system eons ago.
If the were a gene, we could cure it.
“A homosexuality gene, if it existed, would quickly die out.”
Thats the idea. It’s natures way of saying “Do not reproduce,
you have nothing to contribute to the gene pool”.
That's what he writes in the column--sorta.
If someone ever discovered a homosexuality gene there are many parents who would abort babies that had it. That would cause liberals’ heads to explode.
The premise of the article is false. There could be an adaptive purpose to homosexuality which escapes the author. Just because the author states otherwise doesn’t make it true. In any case, it is testable, when more people have the entire genome sequenced. There may be, or there may not be, one or more genes for homosexuality. Time will tell. This author is not the final arbiter. A suicide gene has been identified. How come that hasn’t died out?
Woo-woo — where does the lesbian gene come from? same place as the sodomite gene?
BS.
Beyond that, the idea of "choice" is a dangerous and misleading one. To attribute homosexual orientation, and subsequently, sex, to choice is akin to saying that development of any addiction is a choice. It fails to account for a wealth of empirical knowledge and information about the acquisition of learned responses through instrumental conditioning, imitation, identification, and other powerful processes.
Better to recognize that the constellation of behaviors generally lumped together as "homosexuality" are multiply determined, as are most other complex social behaviors, and to eschew the simplistic binary question of "Genetic--yes or no."
Don’t confuse me with the facts, man!
Anything they can do to validate and defend it they will use. Kinda weird though. I mean, you can’t call a faggot a faggot because they say that’s hate speech, but faggots call each other faggots
There are lots of environmental causes for congenital conditions. What if the hormone balance in the mother is wrong? Not enough vitamins? Illness during pregnancy?
What suicide gene? Please be specific.
According to the compelling logic of the article,
homosexuality would be a non-beneficial mutation,
like Tay–Sachs disease among Ashkenazi Jews,
except that we just need to find a way to
rid their bodies of the gene before they
accidentally pass the trait onto an
offspring during one of the drug-
and sex-fueled binges.
Hey, we’re trying to save them here!
/s
Who said there needs to be a “gene”?
Homosexuality can be one of many defects, which means, yes, you ccan be born with this defect. Not something that has to pass down, but occurs in nature occassionally, for any number of reasons.
I do not know if it is “genetic” or a choice. I see no problem either way. Personally, I do not know why anyone in his RIGHT MIND would choose to be homo. See? It can be a birth issue, just like many birth defects, including maybe just fall-out from some mental issues.
Nowadays may have some exceptions, since homos are making such huge inroads they have convinced some innocent young people it is “hip” to be a defective. But outside this late insanity in society at large, I do not think anyone would choose it.
Premise is demonstrably false. Instead of thinking about a “homosexual” genetic defect, apply the same logic to other “genetic defects”.
Ask yourself this: “Are there any genetic defects which typically prevent reproduction because they are fatal?”
The answer is “Yes,” and many can be named.
So why are these genes still persistant?
Look at the muzzies, they allowed the marrying of cousins etc., and look how they went down hill into idiots.
Why are some people tall and some short, some smart and some dumb. Its genetics, same with sexuality.
well, what about the gene that makes them talk that way?;)
It's sin, period. You really CAN over-think these things, you know.
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