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?
- WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT BEG BORN GAY?
- IS ANYONE BORN GAY?
- 'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
- CAN A PERSON BE 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. * being born gay *
Will our child grow up to be gay or straight?
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IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
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First, by ncentratg on the left si of the graphs, the rear n see that there is a segment of adult gay men who remember beg highly genr non-nformg as kids. 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.
WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
Beg gay is not a choice for people. What we do know is that there isn’t one sgle gene that explas homosexualy.
The most nvcg data about the geic basis of homosexualy om lookg at tws. Beg gay has a lot to do wh geics.
Some of the bt evince that homosexualy has a strong geic part om tw studi. Tw studi of homosexualy have shown that intil tws are about twice as likely to both be gay pared to aternal tws.
WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT BEG BORN GAY?
This means that beg gay is partly geic, and not simply somethg that a person learns or choos.
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.
If one tw is gay, the other is gay about 50% of the time as well. What other factors might fluence whether someone is gay? When lookg at large fai, scientists saw that men wh lots of olr brothers were more likely to be gay.
IS ANYONE BORN GAY?
Men wh lots of olr brothers are 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.
'GAY GEN': SCIENCE IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WE'RE BORN THIS WAY. LET’S AL WH .
And there are plenty of gay men wh no olr brothers! Even though the evince is pretty strong for homosexualy beg partly geic, some people don’t accept .
The argument monly go: If gay men and women are ls likely to have babi, they won’t pass on their gen.
So any “gay gen” should disappear. Ergo, beg gay n’t be geic.
CAN A PERSON BE BORN GAY?
One possible explanatn is that the same gen that make a man gay n also make a woman more fertile. The looked at the female relativ of gay men, both on the mother’s and father’s si.