'I Was Born This Way'

American Thinker ^ | June 9, 2013 | Clayton E. Cramer

[neverdem]

One of the more effective arguments used by those arguing for same-sex marriage and sexual orientation anti-discrimination laws is that homosexuals have no choice in the matter -- that sexual orientation is something that you are born with, and you can't change it. The claim is that this is a natural part of human variability, no different from skin color or hair color or how tall you are. As an acquaintance -- a generally conservative, gay high power rifle shooter (talk about being a member of the world's smallest cross-section of identity groups) told me once, "Why would anyone choose to be gay?"

There is pretty persuasive evidence that what determines sexual orientation, at least for some homosexuals, is environmental. At a minimum, the evidence of a connection between being sexually abused as a child and homosexual or bisexual orientation as an adult is so widespread that the refusal of the scientific community to seriously consider a causal connection suggests a willful blindness.

The paper "Sexual Abuse, Sexual Orientation, and Obesity in Women," published in the Journal of Women's Health, examined the relationship between obesity and lesbianism -- a relationship that has long been recognized but never systematically explored. What the researchers found was that lesbians in their sample of women over 35 were more likely than the heterosexual women to have a "previous mental health diagnosis" and to be well-educated, and significantly more likely to be obese (40.2% compared to 30.4%). Most importantly, lesbians were almost twice as likely as matched heterosexual women to be have been victims of "intrafamilial" child sexual abuse (CSA), and more than twice as likely to be victims of extrafamilial CSA. Suddenly, the wall of fat that is one stereotype of lesbianism makes a lot of sense -- something to drive away men, and...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Not really. It was in the university library at JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY in SILOAM SPRINGS, ARKANSAS.

[lepton]

Something else to remember is that most “homosexuals” are not exclusively so, but are in fact bisexual.

There are some rather strong genetic interactions with this, with the main ones being whether one is selective or not. In other words, the scale is not so much heterosexual at one end of the scale and homosexual at the other end of the scale; but rather discriminating at one end of the scale and indiscriminate at the other end of the scale. Another genetic factor appears to be the strength of the monogamous/polygamists tendencies.

Homosexuality appears to be primarily a miss-imprinting on those factors, primarily through trauma..

[massmike]

Apparently abortion trumps gay:

Occupy CPAC Protestor: It’s OK To Abort A Baby Because It Might Be Gay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnvDp9ERDxM

[massmike]

Generally, geneticists settle for some genetic influence of
rather undefined degree, most agreeing that many genes (from
at least five or six to many hundreds) contribute to any particular human behaviour.

• A genetically dominated SSA caused by such a cluster of genes could not suddenly appear and disappear in families the way it does. It would stay around for many generations. So SSA is not produced by many genes.

• The occurrence of SSA in the population is too frequent to be caused by a chance mutation in a single gene. So a single gene is not responsible for SSA. Nor would many genes all mutate at once.

• SSA falls more naturally into the category of a psychological trait.

http://www.mygenes.co.nz/PDFs/Ch1.pdf

[DiogenesLamp]

In other words, the scale is not so much heterosexual at one end of the scale and homosexual at the other end of the scale; but rather discriminating at one end of the scale and indiscriminate at the other end of the scale. Another genetic factor appears to be the strength of the monogamous/polygamists tendencies.

Homosexuality appears to be primarily a miss-imprinting on those factors, primarily through trauma..

That insight fits my observations as well.

[TArcher]

It’s as natural as Cancer.

[Fred Hayek]

After that day I KNEW it was genetic.

I disagree. It’s demonic possession.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[little jeremiah]

Placemark.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the reminder, little jeremiah.

[cowboy_code]

Trying to bring thoughtful facts...I did some of the leg work for you.

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