What if, spe all the ttimonials to the ntrary, people fact choose to be gay? Would matter? Brandon Ambroso entertaed precisely this hypothetil earlier this week The New Republic. Wrg a few days after the Grammy Awards, durg which Queen Latifah officiated a mass same-sex and heterosexual weddg to the tune of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's "Same Love," Ambroso argued th...
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- WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?
- BEG GAY NOT A CHOICE: SCIENCE CONTRADICTS BEN CARSON
- THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
- THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
- MACKLEMORE IS RIGHT. BEG GAY ISN'T A CHOICE, IT'S A CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE.
- ARE WE BORN GAY?
WHY WOULD PEOPLE 'CHOOSE' TO BE GAY?
Many scientific studi suggt that people don't choose to be gay, ntrary to the claims of Republin printial hopeful Ben Carson. * do people choose to be gay *
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BEG GAY NOT A CHOICE: SCIENCE CONTRADICTS BEN CARSON
* do people choose to be gay *
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THE 'GAY GENE' IS A MYTH BUT BEG GAY IS 'NATURAL,' SAY SCIENTISTS
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THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
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MACKLEMORE IS RIGHT. BEG GAY ISN'T A CHOICE, IT'S A CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE.
For stance, a 2014 study the journal Psychologil Medice showed that a gene on the X chromosome (one of the sex chromosom) lled Xq28 and a gene on chromosome 8 seem to be found higher prevalence men who are gay.
ARE WE BORN GAY?
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