Contents:
- ARE WE BORN GAY?
- WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT BEG BORN GAY?
- IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
ARE WE BORN GAY?
Will our child grow up to be gay or straight?
) and adult homosexualy. But on the other, he totally wrtl wh the image produced by the ia that one might be "born gay, " of a ltle male neonate appearg wh illy pk diapers and graspg a Barbie doll.
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WHAT DO THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT BEG BORN GAY?
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. What is a biblil rponse to the notn that people are born 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.
So any reports about a so-lled “gay gene” are greatly exaggerated. 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.
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.
IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
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.
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.