Brittish neuroscientist says that being gay is genetic

[pr_capone]

possibly for DC but hopefully we can have a nice conversation without it turning to flame fest.

http://www.canada.com/life/Baby+were...565/story.html

When it comes to sexual orientation — and homosexuality in particular — it turns out that Freud and others who theorized that it stems from early parental relationships, childhood abuse or choice were traipsing up the wrong path.

According to pioneering British-American neuroscientist, Simon LeVay (and Lady Gaga), the answer is simple: Baby, you were born this way.

"Sexual orientation is an aspect of gender that emerges from the prenatal sexual differentiation of the brain," says LeVay, who was one of the first researchers in 1991 to connect brain development to sexual orientation. "Whether a person is gay or straight depends in large part on how this process of biological differentiation goes forward, with the lead actors being genes, sex hormones and the brain systems that are influenced by them."

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[DMAC]

thuper

[Donger]

Good. Maybe they can find a way to cure them of the defect.

[JD10367]

Originally Posted by Donger

Good. Maybe they can find a way to cure them of the defect.

Thanks for your input, Adolph.

Once I got past my inherited childhood bigotry, I never understood why anyone gives a shit about what anyone else does in the privacy of their own home. Whether you like to suck innies or outies, who gives a rat's ass. I don't care if you **** guys, girls, or goats, as long as the goats are of age and consenting.

As for the gays, they're screwed either way (pardon the pun). If doctors say it's genetic, people will want to "cure" them. If doctors say it's a choice, people will persecute them and say, "Well, it's their fault, they don't HAVE to be like that".

Claiming it's genetics is a slippery slope. What's next, then? Do we blackball people with bad eyesight because it can be cured genetically? Do we start breeding certain traits out because society deems them undesirable? Short people? Fat people? Blondes? Brown eyed people? Dark skinned people?

Just leave the gays alone, fer crissakes. They're not bothering you. Besides, if we breed it out of existence, culture will take a big hit. Half the actors, a quarter of the musicians, and ALL the interior decorators... It'd be boring without the queers.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by JD10367

Thanks for your input, Adolph.

Once I got past my inherited childhood bigotry, I never understood why anyone gives a shit about what anyone else does in the privacy of their own home. Whether you like to suck innies or outies, who gives a rat's ass. I don't care if you **** guys, girls, or goats, as long as the goats are of age and consenting.

As for the gays, they're screwed either way (pardon the pun). If doctors say it's genetic, people will want to "cure" them. If doctors say it's a choice, people will persecute them and say, "Well, it's their fault, they don't HAVE to be like that".

Claiming it's genetics is a slippery slope. What's next, then? Do we blackball people with bad eyesight because it can be cured genetically? Do we start breeding certain traits out because society deems them undesirable? Short people? Fat people? Blondes? Brown eyed people? Dark skinned people?

Just leave the gays alone, fer crissakes. They're not bothering you. Besides, if we breed it out of existence, culture will take a big hit. Half the actors, a quarter of the musicians, and ALL the interior decorators... It'd be boring without the queers.

That was a joke.

And, it's Adolf, not Adolph.

[JD10367]

Originally Posted by Donger

That was a joke.

And, it's Adolf, not Adolph.

Adolph is the Brittish spelling.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by JD10367

Thanks for your input, Adolph.

Once I got past my inherited childhood bigotry, I never understood why anyone gives a shit about what anyone else does in the privacy of their own home. Whether you like to suck innies or outies, who gives a rat's ass. I don't care if you **** guys, girls, or goats, as long as the goats are of age and consenting.

As for the gays, they're screwed either way (pardon the pun). If doctors say it's genetic, people will want to "cure" them. If doctors say it's a choice, people will persecute them and say, "Well, it's their fault, they don't HAVE to be like that".

Claiming it's genetics is a slippery slope. What's next, then? Do we blackball people with bad eyesight because it can be cured genetically? Do we start breeding certain traits out because society deems them undesirable? Short people? Fat people? Blondes? Brown eyed people? Dark skinned people?

Just leave the gays alone, fer crissakes. They're not bothering you. Besides, if we breed it out of existence, culture will take a big hit. Half the actors, a quarter of the musicians, and ALL the interior decorators... It'd be boring without the queers.

I agree. A gay dude cut my hair last month, and this is the best I've ever looked in my life. It's like he breathed fabulous particles all over my head and turned me into a hot hunk

[Groves]

Originally Posted by JD10367

Claiming it's genetics is a slippery slope. What's next, then? Do we blackball people with bad eyesight because it can be cured genetically? Do we start breeding certain traits out because society deems them undesirable? Short people? Fat people? Blondes? Brown eyed people? Dark skinned people?

I say we start with:

a. Bad drivers
b. People who can't operate an ATM or self serve checkout kiosk
c. Folks who way overprice cool old stuff that I want to buy.

It's a start, anyway.

[JD10367]

Originally Posted by Groves

I say we start with:

a. Bad drivers

Jeez, man. Right off the bat, you want to kill all teenagers, women, elderly, and Asian? You're cold.

[Groves]

Originally Posted by JD10367

Jeez, man. Right off the bat, you want to kill all teenagers, women, elderly, and Asian? You're cold.

And probably Rhode Islanders. Shape up, bub.

[beach tribe]

Originally Posted by Groves

I say we start with:

a. Bad drivers
b. People who can't operate an ATM or self serve checkout kiosk
c. Folks who way overprice cool old stuff that I want to buy.

It's a start, anyway.

Edit: Posted for the obvious reasons. If you thought skin tone, shoot yourself.

[Dante84]

Originally Posted by beach tribe

Edit: Posted for the obvious reasons. If you thought skin tone, shoot yourself.

You have just sentenced everyone on CP to death.

[listopencil]

Originally Posted by JD10367

Claiming it's genetics is a slippery slope. What's next, then? Do we blackball people with bad eyesight because it can be cured genetically? Do we start breeding certain traits out because society deems them undesirable? Short people? Fat people? Blondes? Brown eyed people? Dark skinned people?

No, you are looking at this all wrong. If it's possible to do so we should engineer more gay people to ease population control. We could use less breeders on this planet. Then it would also help with the bashing, beatings, dragging behind pick-ups and murder in general. See, next time some pathological freak sees a gay guy he'd buy the gay guy a drink. "Thanks for taking one for the team, Bud.", he'd say. And just buy the guy a beer or something. It would be great.

[bowener]

Originally Posted by Donger

Good. Maybe they can find a way to cure them of the defect.

What defect? God made them that way.

Of course you're just being a troll.

[MOhillbilly]