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I love it! He uses the fallacious hypothesis of evolution against the fallacious argument that homosexuals are "born that way." Good column!
1 posted on 09/07/2014 7:07:57 PM PDT by WXRGina
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To: WXRGina

If homosexuality was genetic, it would have been bred out of the system eons ago.


2 posted on 09/07/2014 7:11:10 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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If the were a gene, we could cure it.


3 posted on 09/07/2014 7:11:37 PM PDT by txrefugee
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“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”.


4 posted on 09/07/2014 7:12:19 PM PDT by Slambat
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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.


6 posted on 09/07/2014 7:13:01 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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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?


7 posted on 09/07/2014 7:18:47 PM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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Woo-woo — where does the lesbian gene come from? same place as the sodomite gene?


8 posted on 09/07/2014 7:18:58 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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The behaviors conventionally lumped together and described as "homosexual" are variable and diverse. Some include "bisexuality" and others the ability to foster children as a social imperative in circumscribed milieux. There is no core behavior sufficiently orthogonal that it could reasonably be characterized and predicted to have a genetic root.

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."

10 posted on 09/07/2014 7:23:40 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Don’t confuse me with the facts, man!


11 posted on 09/07/2014 7:26:07 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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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


12 posted on 09/07/2014 7:26:23 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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Being ‘born’ homosexual is a medical impossibility unless there is a specific gene causing it.

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?

13 posted on 09/07/2014 7:27:40 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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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


15 posted on 09/07/2014 7:29:07 PM PDT by WKTimpco
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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.


16 posted on 09/07/2014 7:30:28 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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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?


17 posted on 09/07/2014 7:30:30 PM PDT by Rebel_Ace (Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
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well, what about the gene that makes them talk that way?;)


19 posted on 09/07/2014 7:31:17 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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Promoting homosexuality and abortion is a form of biological warfare to eventually kill a nation.


21 posted on 09/07/2014 7:35:07 PM PDT by Amendment10
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I have been saying this for years. How could a Homo gene be passed to subsequent generations? They don't breed. Such a defective gene would soon be eliminated from the gene pool.

But never-mind! Liberals can't be bothered with facts in their feel-good emotional world of Rube Goldberg theoretical constructs.

From “Global Warming” to “Homosexual Marriage” liberals love to talk among themselves about how superior and Utopian they are, while branding their philosophical and political opponents sub-humans.

By thus labeling those with whom they don't agree, they are not bound by any ethical requirement to respectfully listen to them.

22 posted on 09/07/2014 7:35:16 PM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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A homosexuality gene, if it existed, would quickly die out.

I've argued this relentlessly over the years but the homosexual advocates would have none of it.

Taking into account evolution combined with this reasoning, it makes perfect sense.

But, no, homosexual advocates want it their way, facts or logic be damned!
24 posted on 09/07/2014 7:37:05 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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Pure mental disorder, just buried as such to promote the destruction of the family and American culture.


28 posted on 09/07/2014 7:38:36 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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Homosexuality has nothing to do with evolution...

Think of it more like down syndrome, a mental disorder of the mind. Basically a birth defect.

39 posted on 09/07/2014 7:47:38 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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Some people say “God made them that way” or believe in Plato’s soul-mate hypothesis. Many people have challenged the “it’s genetic” argument by questioning how a gay gene could reproduce successfully......but some of us still wonder how SAME-sex marriage can be about “diversity” & different/opposite sex marriage can be considered square, straight/strait-jacketed. Surely, terms such as “gay” & “straight” are biased & Orwellian—as if saying it’s not a choice, but making moral judgments, anyway. If we all were “born that way”, then why use terms such as “gay” & “straight”—as if it is a choice? It’s beyond mere euphemism & into propaganda. Are all homosexuals happy & lighthearted? No! Are all heterosexuals straight-laced, uptight or strait-jacketed? No!


40 posted on 09/07/2014 7:47:57 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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