The theory that people are "born gay" has been ed to argue that sexual orientatn is siar to race - that "gay is the new black." Based largely on this premise, the proposed "Equaly Act," which is currently unr nsiratn Congrs, would treat sexual orientatn exactly like race unr feral civil rights laws. But is te that sexual orientatn is termed at (or before) birth?
Contents:
- ARE WE BORN GAY?
- IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
- WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
- IS ANYONE BORN GAY?
- WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT BEG BORN GAY?
- CAN A PERSON BE BORN GAY?
- 'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
- WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
- CLIL STUDY CONFIRMS PEOPLE ARE NOT BLOGILLY “BORN GAY”
- THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
- MARCIA GAY HARN
- ARE SOME PEOPLE BORN GAY?
- GAY PRI
- ARE CHILDREN "BORN GAY"?
ARE WE BORN GAY?
Why are people gay? Are they gay by choice or is beg gay geic? Are they born gay? Learn about the and reasons for beg gay. * born gay *
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IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
Can a person be born gay? Can a homosexual say, “I was born this way”? Is homosexualy geic? Are some people homosexually-oriented om birth? * born gay *
But there were a signifint number of genr-nformg men who, nohels, veloped a gay or bisexual inty adulthood. Maybe we n agree that the image evoked by "born gay"—that ltle girl neonate appearg wearg overalls and graspg a toy tck—do not help thk through qutns of sexual sire and inty. Tw studi of homosexualy have shown that intil tws are about twice as likely to both be gay pared to aternal tws.
If the DNA sequence were the only thg termg whether someone is gay or not, we would expect intil tws to match 100% of the time.
When lookg at large fai, scientists saw that men wh lots of olr brothers were more likely to be gay. Of urse, this isn’t the only environmental explanatn for how people are born gay – there are plenty of men wh olr brothers who are not gay. Even though the evince is pretty strong for homosexualy beg partly geic, some people don’t accept .
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
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The argument monly go: If gay men and women are ls likely to have babi, they won’t pass on their gen. One possible explanatn is that the same gen that make a man gay n also make a woman more fertile.
This uld mean that there are some gen that are passed down om the mother’s si that make women more fertile and make men more likely to be gay.
No matter why those gen are still around, we do know that beg gay is partly geic and partly termed before a baby is even born. Estimat as to the number of gay people the populatn range om 1--20 to 1--10, so why are some people gay? In other words, 5-10% of people experience same-sex sexual attractn or behavr; of urse, this don't speak to what mak people gay.
IS ANYONE BORN GAY?
Inially, there were accatns that Ziegler, as a gay Democrat, was biased toward Bin, but now some Republins say his inty shows he's fair and reliable sayg the IRS was hampered the vtigatn. * born gay *
No one knows for certa why any dividual is gay, but the current thought is that beg gay is not a choice. Morn science is workg to show that geics is one of the of beg gay, although some science nflicts this area.
Study of fay history reveals that homosexual men have more homosexuals their fay tree than do heterosexuals. The precise gen volved the of beg gay have not yet been intified but they appear to e om the mother. Addnally, some studi have found that the bras om homosexuals differ om the bras of heterosexuals.
WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT BEG BORN GAY?
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * born gay *
While psychologil factors may crease the likelihood that someone is gay, no sgle factor is known to e homosexualy. It very much appears that same-sex sexual attractn is not a choice but actg on is; so if you fe gay as the mere prence of same-sex attractn, then om everythg we unrstand, beg gay is not a choice.
If, on the other hand, you nsir someone to be gay only if they act on their same-sex attractn then beg gay n be nsired a choice pendg on an dividual's behavr.
CAN A PERSON BE BORN GAY?
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Whether science n ultimately prove the blogy of beg gay or not, 's important to support all adults their choic no matter how they intify. Gay nrologist Simon LeVay explas that sexual orientatn is “the tra that predispos to experience sexual attractn” (Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why, 1).
However, if we broan sexualy to clu non-sexual and non-romantic appreciatn for bety, then everybody would be gay.
” Many people, cludg sex rearchers and scientists, believe that sexual orientatn is like a sle wh entirely gay on one end and entirely straight on the other.
'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
Gay Pri, annual celebratn, ually June the Uned Stat and sometim at other tim other untri, of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) inty. Gay Pri memorat the Stonewall rts New York Cy of June 28, 1969. * born gay *
Sexual inty is how you label yourself (for example, g labels such as queer, gay, lbian, straight, or bisexual).
Some people may engage same genr sexual behavr but not intify themselv as bisexual, lbian, or gay.
So, let’s take the person who says, “I was born gay, ” and they mean they have some geic atn for their attractn to people of the same sex. Then there’s the person who says “I was born gay” and may mean “I have the sir for persons of the same sex and I didn’t nscly choose them.
WHO IS JOSEPH ZIEGLER, THE GAY IRS WHISTLEBLOWER HUNTER BIN PROBE?
In 1996, The Advote, a gay and lbian magaze, asked rears what they believed the potential impact would be to the advancement of gay and lbian rights if a scientific disvery prov a blogil basis for homosexualy.
About 61 percent of the magaze’s rears asserted that such scientific rearch would advance the e of gays and lbians and lead to more posive attus toward homosexualy.
CLIL STUDY CONFIRMS PEOPLE ARE NOT BLOGILLY “BORN GAY”
For example, if one n be born gay, much as one n be born wh brown ey, then a fair society uld not possibly nmn him as beg unnatural or immoral.
To that end, gay activists and the liberal media have actively enuraged the ia that homosexualy is hered and unchangeable, and rearchers have diligently sought scientific evince to back up that claim.
THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
Unfortunately for the pro-homosexualy movement, the rearch on this subject has failed to tablish any scientific evince that shows a purely geic basis for homosexualy.
MARCIA GAY HARN
In 1991, LeVay tted the bras of 41 davers and noted differenc between homosexual vers heterosexual mal. The hypothalam, an area believed to regulate sexual activy, was smaller homosexual mal than heterosexuals.
LeVay believed the differenc proved a blogil basis for homosexualy, but he failed to nsir a variety of reasons, other than geic, that the bras were different. First, all 19 of the homosexual davers had died of AIDS, a disease known to affect the nrologil system.
ARE SOME PEOPLE BORN GAY?
Could the stctural bra differenc have started wh the difference thoughts between homosexuals and heterosexuals, rather than wh geics? Dean Hamer, a pro-gay activist, ma the astoundg claim his rearch that there may be a gene for homosexualy.
His team of rearchers began a seri of gene lkage studi, which fai wh several homosexuals unrwent geic analysis to terme if any chromosomal variants uld be found the fay and if the variant rrelated wh those dividuals who displayed the homosexualy.
GAY PRI
Although Hamer’s study sample was very small, he found a signifint lkage between gays and a marker on the maternal X chromosome, Xq28.
ARE CHILDREN "BORN GAY"?
Even if there were some geic monali among homosexuals, associated characteristics do not prove a al lk.