[Travis McGee]

Archival bump.

[missyme]

The only "Gay Gene" that is located are the ones they are wearing...

[lilylangtree]

This news won't be pleasing the queer community in their neverending quest to be legally acknowledged as "special" with special rights.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Science reveals the facts that the mainstream media wont.

These scientific studies were compiled from multiple places. I thought that I would bring them all together. Some of the sites where alot of this was found.

http://www.narth.com

http://www.unitedfamilies.org

[KMC1]

Good Work...nice research putting all of these into one written document...
Thanks
Sharper Minds Daily

[speed_addiction]

Homosexual desire is no different that Hetrosexual desire in this respect, everyone has his own set of likes and dislikes. Some guys go all nuts for tall blondes, some guys go all ga-ga for olive skinned, dark haired lovelies and some (like myself) cannot resist a light skinned black woman. Homosexuals go all nuts for another butt pirate. You don't HAVE to go that way.

As much as I am attracted to black women, I was married for a long time (over 15 years) to a latina.

[Semper Paratus]

Wonder if there are any studies concerning identical twins raised apart?

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Dr. Dean Hamer was asked by Scientific American if homosexuality was rooted solely in biology. He replied:

"Absolutely not."

Expect this guy to now be ripped to shreds as a racist, bigoted, homophobe. Possibly the ACLU can get in on the act and sue him into bankruptcy for "hate speech" seeing that he did say homosexuality is NOT what the homosexual lobby says it is.

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda Ping.

I was just going to turn off my computer and have a little dose of "real life"! And along comes this great summary.

Read it, save it, copy it, pass it along.

Let me know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

An analysis of another identical-twin study that helps to smash the "born gay" theory(A year 2000 identical-twin study. A very large study, very precise. 14,000+ identical twins in this most recent study)

http://www.narth.com/docs/whitehead2.html

[starfish923]

From MY readings of "scientific" studies over the last three decades, homosexuality IS a mixture of nature and nuture.
The nature is PROBABLY a SERIES of many genetic/chromosomal dysfuctions, which may be inherited or caused from chemical problams (mother ingests drugs at wrong time of fetus' development).
The nuture is up for grabs. SOME children get through any crises without damage. SOME children are dysfuntional, in spite of a "normal, healthy" upbringing.

Studies continue, but they won't amount to much, I think. The "nuture" factors are simply too overwhelming. There is really no SCIENTIFIC way to study human behavior, especially when it's retroactive. SCIENTIFIC involves blind studies, random sampling, pre-post tests, LONG term studies involves millions and millions and millions of people. Given that, people forget, exaggerate, say what the "scientist" wants to hear, lie, learn what to say from therapists and plain just don't remember.

I think the puzzle will be solved with DNA and genetic studies. It WON'T solve the problem, but at least folks will know how and why things are the way they are.

I feel very sorry for homosexuals, bisexuals and transgenders. How very sad to be born or end up with SUCH a profoundly abnormal view of one's own sexuality.
Mind you, I feel that way in my heart and brain, but when I see the homosexual agenda shoved in our faces, forced down our throats and legislated by asshole activist educators, mayors and judges, I often feel little sympathy.

[demoRat watcher]

They are recruited, obviously.

Look at the homosexuals in your own life: Are they ugly? Fat? Disabled? Low IQ? Slovenly?

Mothers beware! Homosexuals are targeting the cream-of-the-crop.

They look good and are for the most part healthy because homosexuals are not recruiting those whom they do not find attractive.

[IamConservative]

"Boys victimized by older men are far more likely to be homosexual as adults, and the cycle often repeats itself. More environmental factors."

1) Makes one wonder about the childhood of Michael Jackson.

2) Makes one wonder how long the chain of abusing Priests is.

[Servant of the 9]

From twin studies we already know that half or more of the variability in sexual orientation is not inherited.

The corolary is that while there may not be one gay gene, about half of the variability is inherited.

SO9

[escapefromboston]

Fabulous PING!

[lormand]

Here's proof!

[Redbob]

Of course there's not a "gay gene."

Such a thing could hardly evolve now, could it?
How do you pass something along if you have no progeny?

[jboot]

Bump for the file

[Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...]

Sorry but I don't believe that homosexuality exists at all - it's just a name that the proponents of a particular activity (or classification of activities) have given to try to legitimize it. The trick to doing that is to make it seem that there is a whole group of like-minded people who have the same innate characteristic - in fact, born that way and hence it is justified. I think that there is only an inherent sexual drive that we are all born with - and the classification isn't between heterosexual and homosexual, it's between normal and perverted - and it isn't about 'who one is', it's about 'what one does'. In the above article, Paglia is probably closest to the truth when it comes to how homosexuality is defined.

[elmer fudd]

I agree that it most likely has little or nothing to do with genetics, but I also doubt that many of them have much of a choice in it. There are a great many homosexuals who desperately want not to be gay and even go so far as to marry and have families in an effort to be straight. If it were just a choice these men could make then they definately would not be gay.