Is homosexuality a choice or is it genetic?

[dahermit]

I am a transsexual, my spouse and I are both educated and we often speak on panels for Human Sexuality and Gender Ed classes. We also present for continuing ed classes for counselors.

However attractive the hunter/gatherer lifestyle may be, it will take a vast amount of dying before we are reduced enough in numbers to live like that. The transition too will be very difficult for anyone trying to go from living in today's world who tries to go back to living off the land. We don't have the necessary information base and skill set for that kind of life.

"Living off the land" is more of a romantic dream than it is a reality. Just where would a person do that? There are three kinds of land in the U.S. Federal land, State land and private land. Unless you own large amount of wilderness land, the hunting-gathering would likely cause the hunter-gatherer would-be to be arrested for hunting out of season, destroying protected flora, illegal camping(usually have to pay to camp, or are time limits), et. AL. Even in the event of owning your own land, hunting-gathering is a subsistence activity not likely to generate the money to pay your property taxes resulting in the loss of the land.
You can however, live in a cardboard box on a steam grate in any large city with the government turning a blind eye...such is America.

 

[Angelabove]

Its a Behavoral problem. The reason why Men comit those faggot acts cause theyre so damn frustrated dealing with women. Women do it cause theyre to god damn lazy finding a good man instead of taking whats offered to them.So i dont think Gay or Lersbian Marrage should be legal. I think Insurance companies should deny anyone whos gay or lesbian health insurance. And if you file an job application if the employer finds out youre gay or lesbian you dont get the job. If you turn gay or lesbian your boss finds out he has the right to fire you!

Interesting..... so if the employer is gay or lesbian, he or she has the right to fire a straight person for being straight? Can a gay or lesbian working at an insurance company deny a straight person health insurance?

Do you have a job and health insurance?

 

[Libsmasher]

The libertarian in me says who cares? Whether homosexuality is innate or not is really just an academic issue. Leave the gays alone, but they generate a lot of hostility toward themselves by demanding special privileges.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

The libertarian in me says who cares? Whether homosexuality is innate or not is really just an academic issue. Leave the gays alone, but they generate a lot of hostility toward themselves by demanding special privileges.

Like being able to see loves ones in the hospital? To adopt? to marry? to be able to file there taxes the same as a married couple? Why cant they just expt that they are no equals under law cuz a 2000 year old book said so.

 

[BigRob]

Why cant they just expt that they are no equals under law cuz a 2000 year old book said so.

I am going to hope you were drunk when you wrote this... it does not make any sense.

 

[Libsmasher]

Like being able to see loves ones in the hospital? To adopt? to marry? to be able to file there taxes the same as a married couple?

I agree with all that, except married couples, gay or not, deserve no special privileges other people don't get. The privileges they have are partner company benefits not available to similarly unmarried heterosexuals, vast overspending for their AIDS compared to other deadly diseases, and "civil rights" laws that say people who find their practices objectionable still have to rent to them. I don't like them pushing their propaganda into government schools ("Heather has two mommies"), and I think the full-fledged intoduction of openly gay persons into the combat arms of the military would be destructive to morale.

 

[Not Amused]

I am going to be really frank here.

Many of you are talking a load of complete bollocks regarding a subject, you know little, if nothing about. All this pontificating is laughable.

Have any of you actually studied genetic versus every other bloody hypothesis the layman can think of to condemn/demonise homosexuals? Lets be bloody honest at least.

The National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health have recently found through their ongoing research explicit evidence for a genetic link.

This explicit evidence was obtained by studying the X chromosome DNA of 40 pairs of gay brothers.

The scientists used a technique called linkage mapping to search for patterns of similarity in the genetic information of related individuals. Thirty three of the gay sibling pairs had co inherited genetic markers in the same chromosome region called Xq28, suggesting that 65 percent of the families studied were transmitting a gene for homosexual orientation.

"The statistical significance of the results was better than 99 percent, which means that the possibility of obtaining our findings by chance is extremely unlikely," said Hamer.

Now, this is of course not absolute proof regarding genetic linking, but it is quite significant. It also knocks the 'theories' based on sheer, unadulterated, barely disguised bigotry put forward by some participating in this thread, into a bloody top hat!

 

[bododie]

I think homosexuality is a choice. Bottom line: I don't care, as long as no one tries to force me accept any behavior, or culture that I deem inappropriate to my chosen values in life. I certainly don't believe it should be a legal issue.

 

[Dr.Who]

I think homosexuality is a choice. Bottom line: I don't care, as long as no one tries to force me accept any behavior, or culture that I deem inappropriate to my chosen values in life. I certainly don't believe it should be a legal issue.

I think it involves a choice. But we cannot forget that we are creatures of flesh and our flesh effects our decisions in many ways.

 

[thatgurl07]

I would have to say neither. If I said it was a choice it would be like saying you can control what you are. People can only control there actions and thoughts. If I said it was genetic that would mean that some people have a genetic dispostion to being gay and I don't think that's true. People don't, in my expeirence, "turn gay"! Its who they are. You can no more change that than you can change or where you come from.

 

[Pandora]

I think it can be both. I think some people are just born always being attracted to same sex.

I think some just decide they like sex and it doesnt matter who or what they are having it with.


the second group makes things hard for the first group.

 

[fj1200]

Choice with predispositions of environment and mental/emotional status.

 

[SWP70]

Where is it all going to lead? If you go far enough it will to much for someone to take. It is ok to sleep with same sex (because I have the want). It is ok to sleep with my mom(because I have the want). It is ok to sleep with my sister(because I have the want). It is ok to sleep with farm animals (because I have the want). See it never ends, but somewhere it goes to far.

 

[bododie]

The point at which it goes to far is expecting society to accept, or pay one cent for legislation relative to people's personal choices.

 

[pocketfullofshells]

The point at which it goes to far is expecting society to accept, or pay one cent for legislation relative to people's personal choices.

Fine all married people can turn in there tax breaks..