Posted on 07/21/2016 9:51:16 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University and former psychiatrist–in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital, who has studied sexuality for 40 years, said it is a scientific fact that “there is no gay gene.”
“Environment,” however, “is very important,” said Dr. McHugh, author of The Mind Has Mountains: Reflections on Society and Psychiatry. He also explained that the permissive sexual culture in the United States today has confused “desire” with “love,” and that homosexuality is a false or “erroneous desire.”
In an interview with Virtue Online: The Voice for Global Orthodox Anglicanism, reporter Lydia Evans asked Dr. McHugh, “How do you view the popular assumption that science has somehow proven that sexual orientation is determined early in childhood, if not before birth?”
Dr. McHugh, who ended the sexual reassignment surgery program at Johns Hopkins because it was not helping the patients, answered, “Well, as I have said, there is no gay gene. And there are factors more influential than biology.”
“The best data, of course, [comes from the Framingham Study],” said Dr. McHugh. “If you are a man and you grow up in a rural environment, you are four times less likely to have homosexual relationships than if you grow up in a metropolitan area. That's not left-handedness.”
“If you are a lesbian, you are much more likely to be college-educated,” he said. “That's not something that happens at conception.”
“My point is that we now know that the environment is very important,” said Dr. McHugh.
Lydia Evans then asked, “On another front, as the sexuality debate within mainline churches seems to have shifted so profoundly in favor of the left, how do you see the debates of the broader culture changing in the next five to ten years?”
Dr. McHugh said, “It really is amazing -- I mean, 50 years ago [homosexual behavior] was a crime, and now we're talking about [same-sex marriage]. Anyone who wants to stick with the tradition is accused of being a biblical literalist or a homophobic racist, because, in part, of the more fundamental change in our society towards permissiveness, that is, easy divorce, cohabitation and concubinage, abortion, pornography ... and euthanasia.”
“The issue of the homosexual is not separate,” he said. “It's all part and parcel of the pandemonium that the permissive movement has brought. We have just licensed all kinds of behavior."
When asked about earlier generations being pressured to marry and have families, Dr. McHugh said these were societal expectations and they were positive.
“Yes, and they were good ones,” he said, “and biblically based, and part and parcel of my commitment to really what amounts to loving relationships.”
“You see, what has happened with the permissive movement is that it has picked up the Freudian confusion of desire and love, making them the same,” said Dr. McHugh. “And with the implication, for example, that I must desire my mother. I don't desire my mother. I love my mother.”
He continued, “Now the fact is that in my marriage, of course, I desired this woman and I felt love for her. Now, 50 years into marriage with her, I still desire her, but now I love her. She's irreplaceable. There is this thing that has come and it's different. This person exists for me as irreplaceable. So, there is this confusion of desire and love. [Homosexuality] is erroneous desire.”
When Lydia Evans asked about how the environment of a church, or religious-minded community, could affect people’s behavior, Dr. McHugh said, “This is the point. You've got to get the churches -- not just the Anglican churches, but the Roman Catholics and the Presbyterians.”
“They've got to start talking again about their foundational opinions,” he said. “There's an idea of there being different kinds of laws in our world: the natural law, the law of desire -- but there is scriptural law that comes out of the Old Testament. And they've got to get all of this straight.”
>Ironically, Freud (who I greatly dislike) taught that all homosexuality was “learned,” and “taught by parents.”
Freud is wrong. Identical twins studies shows that if one child is a homo then the other only has a 40% chance of being a homo as well. If it was learned behavior it should be closer to 90%. Nor is it genetic. Homosexuality is either an in utero birth defect caused by something in the mothers body or a transmissible disease.
This so called “cultural war” was truly initiated and carried out by the left, to destroy the religious American family and morality (and thereby individual responsibility) in an effort to turn a “nation of lions” into a “nation of sheep!”
They knew it was not possible to eliminate American sovereignty, (their goal being enforceable sovereign global governance), without first eliminating the morality of the average American voter, of the greatest nation in the world. This was heavily postulated over a hundred years ago.
One of the most important planks or building blocks of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto was to take control of the education system in order to control and indoctrinate children in the morality of “state,” in an effort to supersede the morality of “religion,” and to eliminate the position of natural parents!
George Washington was absolutely correct:
“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of man and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice?
And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric?”
(Source: George Washington, Address of George Washington, President of the United States . . . Preparatory to His Declination (Baltimore: George and Henry S. Keatinge), pp. 22-23. In his Farewell Address to the United States in 1796.)
http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=63
There are literally books written which discuss how it was necessary to destroy the family, morality, and the belief systems of Christians across America!
Christianity, morality, and a truly free society are the targets! And the enemy is nearing completion of its goal!
Bet a certain gay Republican billionaire America just met would disagree...
“The best data, of course, [comes from the Framingham Study],” said Dr. McHugh. “If you are a man and you grow up in a rural environment, you are four times less likely to have homosexual relationships than if you grow up in a metropolitan area. That’s not left-handedness.”
“If you are a lesbian, you are much more likely to be college-educated,” he said. “That’s not something that happens at conception.”
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I knew neither of those two facts. Damming to the “born that way” faggots.
Homosexuality is more dangerous than, “alcoholism, drug addiction or whore mongering”
I speak as a recovering alcoholic, sober, by the grace of God, for 35 years..
PFL
Worldwide!
Any WNBA game, you will see a wall of plaid shirts behind the players. At a UCONN game it’s more like a Sea of Plaid.
Why are gay boys and men often easy to ID just from their face? All you need is a photo. How do you learn to look gay, even at a young age?
That’s why I think the Dr. is being a bit glib in saying that it’s not a gene, it’s environment. The environment he’s actually referring to is the hormonal soup in utero, not watching Will & Grace too often.
No homosexual gene, no genders beyond male and female, what is a liberal to do? /s
Much has been written about various “Twin” studies.
I used to get hung up pretty good in various twin studies as well.
I have dug deep into several “Twin Studies,” and while voluminous and complicated, my conclusions are largely the same as I found summed up in a piece which was forwarded to me at the following site. The authors are more authoritative than I could possibly be, as while I have studied genetic science, I am not a genetic scientist. Even while most people today would scoff or mock both the site and those utilizing such a link, this was forwarded to me by a genetic research scientist, as it offered a good summation of what has been learned.
https://www.trueorigin.org/gaygene01.php
At the end of the day, the genetic science itself remains valid, and the “twins studies” truly have been unrepeatable and contradictory, not only in these studies, but in newer studies.
You raised a good question, and topic of discussion -
A man of great courage willing to speak the truth.
Queers in the military...who would gladly shoot us.
Medical journals classify homosexuality as “deviant behavior”. The individual has deviated from natural order determined by that individuals reproductive organs.
What a refreshing thread. How I would love to see a strong revival sweep the corruption away. I would love to see people stop hurting God.
As discussed here, homosexual behavior is self-destructive and generally destructive to society....as is all sexual sin. That is why I do not see anything funny about it and find homosexual “jokes”, often quoted on Free Republic, repulsive. It is not funny to watch people die in their sin.
To those who repeat these jokes I would like to ask you...where did you get all of your inside information about the details of homosexual sex? These “jokes” contain graphic references to the anatomical machinations of various sex acts and an inside code language to describe it. I had never seen or heard of most of it outside of this website. So, again I wonder, what circles did you travel in to learn all about it?
Here, here.
Shhhhh... the homosexual fraudsters don’t want anyone to know this.
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