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To: Westbrook
That being said, no such medical evidence exists for a genetic predisposition to homosexuality.

Which wouldn't be the same thing as being "born gay" anyhow. But this simply means that no doctor has pin pointed a "gay gene." Nature, nurture, and that mysterious thing we call free will all have a place; it has been shown, I believe, that out of identical twins separated at birth there is a far higher chance that any "gay" proclivities seen in one will appear in the other, than would exist between fraternal twins.

25 posted on 10/25/2011 6:39:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: HiTech RedNeck

> I believe, that out of identical twins separated at birth
> there is a far higher chance that any “gay” proclivities
> seen in one will appear in the other, than would exist
> between fraternal twins.

I don’t have the references ready, but other than genetic makeup, identical twins are as different as any other random two people.

I happen to know a couple sets of identical twins, and, indeed, they are very different people.

So, unless you believe there is a “gay gene”, then you shouldn’t believe that if one identical twin is gay, the other is more likely to be so than any other random person in the general population.

On the other hand, even if a “gay gene” could be discovered, it does not excuse gay behavior any more than the clinically proven predisposition to alcoholism excuses drunkenness.

Homosexuality and Lesbianism is not a race, it is not a nationality, it is not an ancestry, it is not a faith-based conviction.

It is a BEHAVIOR.


32 posted on 10/25/2011 6:52:57 PM PDT by Westbrook
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