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So if this is true, then all attempts at helping little johnny while he's young should be made.Science is rapidly converging on the conclusion that sexual orientation is innate. It has found that homosexuals often act differently from heterosexuals in early childhood, before they have even heard of sex. A recent study by Simon LeVay, a neurobiologist at the Salk Institute, reported a difference in the hypothalamus, a part of the brain that develops at a young age, between homosexual and heterosexual men.
We are a society that is supposed to HELP the sick, not let them stay ill, or enable their sickness to progress.
I also think being molested in the past has something to do with someone being attracted to the same sex. I know several people who are Gay and Lesbians and they were molested as children, it is sad. Im not saying it is what caused it, and a trauma like that could definatly screw someone up bad, I know from experience.
OCA, you are not a psychologist, nor do you do scientific research. You are merely another deluded conservative who thinks only what he is taught or programed to think. The fact that you refuse to accept the finding of trained and accredited experts in their fields is proof of such.The ability to make the CHOICE to practice a queer lifestyle is born out of a mental short circuit which is treatable either through intensive psychotherapy or drugs despite what the politically compromised APA tells you.
It's not just you, though. It is ALL the radical fundamentalists and evangelical nutcases who refuse to enter the 21st Century.
Homosexuality is no more a "choice" than gender, race and heredity. It's simple genetics. Next time you see someone in a wheelchair, or with some birth defect, ask them why they made that "choice." Tell them that they can be treated through intensive psychotherapy or drugs.
Otherwise, go line up behind Fred Phelps and his loony bunch. Because if you believe homosexuality is a "choice," then you are closer to Fred's bunch than you are to a normal human being.
I am sick of reading these homosexual bashing threads, I think they should be banned, and when the perps insist on starting them up again they should be closed immediately and the perp should be banned.
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If you attack the Clintons publically make sure all your friends know your not planning on commiting suicide ~ McCain 2008
Happiness is Obama's picture on the back of a milk carton.
I'd be the last one to dismiss a scientific conclusion because it's old (the LeVay study you mention is from 1991, I believe). Hell, if it stands up to all efforts at refutation, over a long period of time, maybe there's something to it.
Unfortunately for those who were pinning their hopes on this one, though, LeVay's conclusions were blown out of the water years ago. The trouble is that the hypothalamus glands studied were those of autopsied adult male homosexuals. See the problem? Adult, confirmed homosexuals. Who can say, then, that the behavior itself does not trigger changes in the hypothalamus gland? No one, that's who. The conclusions are shot to pieces.