Homosexual Researchers Debunk ‘Born Gay’ Urban Legend

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[Polycarp]

Homosexual Researchers Debunk ‘Born Gay’ Urban Legend

Date: Monday, July 29 @ 15:01:42 EDT
Topic: Homosexual Agenda

Washington, DC – Urban Legends are extremely difficult to stop once they’ve reached the email circuit or the Internet. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), for example, still receives thousands of petitions each year from Christians who have been told that Madalyn Murray O’Hair is trying to get all Christian programming removed from TV and radio. Mrs. O’Hair has been dead for many years now, but the petitions continue to reach the FCC from alarmed Christians.

By Rev. Louis P. Sheldon
Chairman,
Traditional Values Coalition

Emails and the Internet contribute to the spread of urban legends, but these information sources are also useful in helping us dispel urban legends. Traditional Values Coalition has recently launched its own urban legend site to debunk misinformation spread by homosexual activist organizations about the nature and prevalence of homosexuality in our culture. Our Homosexual Urban Legend site has just added a new legend that needs to be debunked: The claim that homosexuals are “born gay” and that homosexuality is fixed and unchangeable from birth.

The “Born Gay” urban legend is actually being exposed as false by homosexual researchers themselves. Homosexual researcher Dean Hamer, for example, notes that homosexuality is not “purely genetic…environmental factors play a role. There is not a single master gene that makes people gay.” Homosexual researcher Simon LeVay, who attempted to find a genetic basis for homosexuality by examining the differences in the hypothalamus between “homosexual” and “heterosexual” males, has written: “I didn’t show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain.”

Therapists who treat men and women struggling with same-sex attractions say that there are several consistent factors that contribute to the emergence of homosexuality: gender confusion in childhood, a failure to internalize maleness, and sexual abuse by a same-sex predator. Dr. Gregory Dickson, whose doctoral thesis is on the relationship between a mother and son in the development of homosexuality, found that 49% of the homosexuals he surveyed said they had been molested, compared to less than 2% of heterosexuals. Other research confirms what therapists have known for decades: Homosexuals are made, not born. And they are frequently “made” by older men who molest them as youngsters.

Counselor Dr. Robert Hicks, author of The Masculine Journey has some sobering thoughts on the real origins of homosexual attractions: “…In counseling gay men for twenty years, I have not had one yet whom I would say had a normative childhood or normative adolescent development in the sexual arena. More often than not I have found stories of abusive, alcoholic, or absent (physically and emotionally) fathers; stories of incest or first experiences of sex forced upon them by older brothers, neighborhood men, or even friends. I sometimes find these men have been early exposure to pornography….” It is worth repeating: Homosexuals are made, not born.

This may not be good news to hardened homosexual activists who continue to engage in life-threatening behaviors. It should be good news to those men and women who struggle with same-sex attractions but who wish to lead normal lives. Organizations like Exodus International and the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality are available to help free these individuals from same-sex attractions and a sexual behavior that can ultimately kill them.

Christians who oppose homosexuality are frequently accused of being unloving, but there is nothing more loving than helping a person to become free of a life-controlling and self-destructive behavior. How many more patches will be added to the AIDS Quilt before someone says enough is enough: Homosexuality kills.

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[Undivided Heart]

I don't know. I've seen lots of straight comedians do the gay lisp. They do it better. Craig Shoemaker's Lovemaster act for one.

[Hot Tabasco]

Just adding my 2 cents here and submitting an observation which I have yet to see in print.

Homosexuality does not exist in any other species simply because if there were such a gene in that species it would have been eliminated eons ago.

If human population were to procreate via the same internal instincts inherent in all other species, such homosexual gene would also have been eliminated eons ago.

However, the human species is the only species which copulates without any genetic predisposition to the survival of the species. We copulate and self gratificate merely for the pleasure of such activity but in the instances of married couples (or unmarried it really doesn't matter), such activity creates birth if that is their desire. In other words, the ability to create a newborn has evolved beyond species survival to personal choice.

Since homo-sapiens have evolved beyond the primitive instincts of mating when the female becomes fertile and have developed intelligence to the degree that sexual contact has now become a choice rather than a drive, the only logical explanation left is that sexual behavior is just what it is, behavior. Behavior which is totally controllable by the individual if he/she wishes because behavior is driven strictly by societal and psychological influences....

[Hot Tabasco]

Sorry to hear about your dysfunctional family but read my post #102.....

[Clint N. Suhks]

“What ‘causes’ homosexuality?”…

Mental illness, it’s a paraphilia and you know it. Some day I hope you seek help for your homosexuality, you’ll be whole person when you start a family. Pretending you’re not hurting inside only prolongs your torment. Narth and Exodus only want to help, get some before it’s too late.

[Truthsearcher]

I am not missapplying.

You are plotting a point for each sexual encounter, I am not, I am plot one for each distinct sexual attraction. Sexual attraction is a specturm involving almost as many variations are there are human beings. That's why I always found the classifying of people as heterosexuals and homosexuals as over generalizing.

There are men who are attracted to fat women, thin women, some have breast fetish, others have a foot fetish, some like to tie women up, some like to be tied up by women, some like tall women, some like petite women, some like women who are butch,etc, etc, etc. No one can adequately explain why we like what we like. Some of these attractions are found in the majority of men (big breasts, etc), some are found in a much smaller numbers. But they all exist. Men attracted to other men is just a subgroup of all these various attractions.

Having sexual attractions that doesn't exist in the majority of one's peers is a deviation. But a deviation that is to be expected. Life would be so boring if we all had the exact same taste.

[yendu bwam]

Mouth... thin upper lip, large distance between nose and lip Hips...very narrow hips.

Yikes!

[SarahW]

And is polycarp trying to say genetics have nothing to do with psycho-sexual development?

OF COURSE there is a genetic element. The uterine environment plays a role as well.

[Old Professer]

Not being familiar with you or your sense of humor I rebutted

Forgive me, but given the title of this thread, I can't help butt laugh.

[MAWG]

" Do you know what is being taught at your school?"

I dont have any children so I dont " have " a school. Nothing that you could tell me about The Peoples Republic of Taxachussetts or Socialist Vermont surprises me. It is stunning, nonetheless, to hear of such officialy sanctioned depravity.

[yendu bwam]

I dont have any children so I dont " have " a school. Nothing that you could tell me about The Peoples Republic of Taxachussetts or Socialist Vermont surprises me. It is stunning, nonetheless, to hear of such officialy sanctioned depravity.

I think we could agree on live-and-let-live as a rule for homosexuals. It's a free country and they should be able to live their lives as they see fit. But I should be able to raise my family as I see fit (religiously, and with regard to sexual education). That's where I have (big) problems with gays.

[LiveFreeOrDieTryin]

I remember my neighbor's bird dogs when I was growing up that seemed naturally inclined to bugger each other when given the chance.

Dogs use "mounting" behavior as a demonstration of superiority. Males and females will hump dogs of either gender, to claim dominant status within the pack. This is true whether they are sexually intact or neutered.

[Vinnie]

Hide it with a moustache. (G)

[CalConservative]

You don't mean to say they have been lying to us about this issue?? I'm shocked - shocked! /sarcasm

[JMJ333]

mille99...Perhaps you would like to explain to these fine men why you think inter-racial marriage is comparable to homosexual sex.

You see, this brilliant person finds it objectionable that I view men having anal sex with each other as morally wrong. His attempt to link normal heterosexual marriage between different races and deviant perverse homoesxual sex is a slap in the face.

But that is what you get from someone with no standards. Everything goes!

[MAWG]

" But I should be able to raise my family as I see fit ..."

Yes you should but the left wingers and the Gays wont let you do so unless you give to them the one thing they want from all of us " normal " people, APPROVAL.ACCEPTANCE. They know that what they are doing is wrong yet they are powerless, or at least that's what they tell themselves, to change. I believe that with some homosexual men, most even, that is probably the case.

[Truthsearcher]

But what is *morally* wrong about it?

If it is done in private, by consenting adults, what makes it wrong? Define you standard of right and wrong, and explain why this would be wrong using that standard.

Or is the standard simply "the bible said so"?

[gitmo]

The desire to sin inhabits all men. The temptations are different for different people.

It is a choice to commit the sin.

Heb 4:
5. For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16. Let us therefore draw near with boldness unto the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace to help us in time of need.

[MoscowMike]

Howdy

I am saying that it is incorrect, that it is not representative of the human experience, that everyone's sexuality is a continuum between 100% heterosexual and 100% homosexual, with a statistical norm of some percent attraction to the same sex and some percent of one's sexual urges in attraction to the opposite sex.

That's absolute drivel.

People are not, say, sixty percent heterosexual and forty percent homosexual in orientation, there are people with a normal sexual orientation and there are people with problems.

That is not to say people who are overwhelmingly desirous of sexual relations with rutabegas should be scorned and persecuted, it is just that society should not reshape its norms, lifeways, and taboos to be reflective of a condition which is fictitious.

Redefining deviancy into merely a different location on a single continuum of sexuality would produce a society much more user friendly to deviants, but such a society would also suffer lower life expectancy, so one wonders whose interests would be served by reshaping society to be reflective of a bogus model of human sexuality.

Hmmmm?