Posted on 10/21/2011 5:38:59 PM PDT by ventanax5
In an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan (which Alana wrote on earlier this week), GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain spoke out on two contentious social issues–homosexuality and abortion. Let’s deal with each in turn.
On homosexuality, Cain claimed that it is a “choice.” If there are any other factors that go into determining one’s sexual orientation, Cain didn’t name them.
From my understanding of things, there is no single, simple causation when it comes to sexual orientation. For example, there is no “gay gene” that we know of. (The much-hyped 1993 study by the National Institutes of Health didn’t withstand scrutiny. A later study published in Science reported that the “data do not support the presence of a gene of large effect influencing sexual orientation.”) But this doesn’t necessarily mean homosexuality isn’t genetic at all; it could be a trait that arises from the interaction of genes.
How one’s sexual orientation is determined remains uncertain and still clouded in mystery–but it is probably a combination of nature and nurture, the result of a complex interplay of factors (which may include hormones, including those that develop during gestation; genetics; brain structure and hardwiring; and environmental influences).
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Here’s what you need to know about homosexual behavior—just don’t do it!
We gotta whole lot of negative campaigning going on around here.
Clairity gets the zot: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2796132/posts
“We all have urges that aren’t good for us.”
True. And the Good Lord will take the urge away if we ask him with our whole heart. This method is infallible.
Yes, and even those can be transformed. Not easily, I grant you, but it can be done.
Went down? lol!
That's like saying Skylab lost altitude. :-)
Kinda? KINDA?!
You are a master of understatement.
Some gays i think were abused as youngsters and that turns them gay other ones i don’t know about. They obviously have some opposite sex tendons.
Yes it does.
Maybe there’s no such thing as natural homosexual inclination. But I know disinclination is natural.
Cain did say today on Fox that abortion should be illegal in America. A step in the right direction for Cain and his evolving stance on abortion.
You posted on that thread so you know you are lying now. And I know you don't care how many lies you tell for your agenda.
November 2012 is about the U.S. Supreme Court. With several center-right justices becoming old enough that they may suddenly die, what kind of Supreme Court do you want? Are you ok with the sort of Supreme Court that a Romney-Cain might nominate or would you prefer a court packed with young, healthy America hating leftist radicals that hussein will certainly appoint?
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Cain did not say he favors abortion in any way, shape or form under any or any given circumstance.
Just didn't happen. Now, your boy is in favor of pulling arms and legs off babies.
This way out of order, a dishonest hit piece of he first water. Ignore it and blame the sniveling Perryactricks!
Shut the hell up. At least get your facts straight....
No it does not. Be truthful..He said that he was against all abortion, he meant it. The out of context statement you make was that he was talking about the girl deciding against adoption in favor of keeping the child. Get your damn facts straight.
To quote Ronald Reagan: “There you go again.”
After watching all the smear merchants and their gratuitous attacks on Rick Perry, I know what you yahoos are up too. If you want to see a liar, look in the mirror, bucko.
Reagan Man goes on every thread posting the same nonsense and every time he is confronted with facts, he ignores them.
Also, if you try to answer him with facts, he will accuse you of stifling criticism of Cain.
Just an FYI
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