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wade
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-=d=- said:I'm arguing based on biology...On science. You are arguing based on your fear of absolute truths. I feel attraction to lots of people - I only have sex with women. I'm attracted to Men of character. Fortunately, my mind isn't so jacked up as to make me think I have to do em up the butt as a response to that attraction.
It's ironic to me that you fault the Bible because the existance of God relies so much on FAITH, yet your believe in homosexuals being born that way requires leaps and bounds of faith I can't comprehend.
No, you are arguing based upon your homophobic upbringing and your homophobic faith. Science and Biology support my position, that about 1-2% of the populations are just wired wrong and find the same sex attractive.
Consider the following:
The most highly publicised was reported by J. Michael Bailey and Richard Pillard in "A Genetic Study of Male Sexual Orientation" in the Archives of General Psychiatry, December 1991. These researchers recruited gay male subjects through advertisements in the gay media and sent questionnaires, which included questions on sexual orientation, to their male siblings. They reported that:
52% (29/56) of MZ twins,
22% (12/54) of DZ twins,
9.2% (13/142) of non-twin brothers,
and 11% (6/57) of adoptive brothers of gay men
were also gay themselves. The researchers estimated that the heritability of male homosexuality was between 31% and 74%. A similar study carried out by the same researchers on the siblings of lesbian women reported concordance rates of 48% for MZ twins, 16% for DZ twins, 14% for non-twin sisters and 6% for adoptive sisters. Heritability was estimated as between 27% and 76%.
http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/g/ge/genetic_basis_for_homosexuality.html
Here are some more links on the subject:
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f97/projects97/Newman.html#5
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/scotts/ftp/bulgarians/nih-ngltf.html
http://www.skeptictank.org/gaygene.htm
As you can see, there is strong evidence that there are genes on the X chromosome that greatly influence sexual orientation. Even the NIH study supports this view.
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I believe in God, just your God. I do not require juvinile homilies invented to keep me in line to have faith.
Wade.