GAY TRUTH

That’s what two recent headlines proclaim. What are we to make of this?  Before we evaluate these announcements, it’s important to understand that we are not discussing people who are intersex. Those people have a biological or chromosomal abnormality in terms of their sex. By very definition, they are born that way. It’s Not the First Time It’s also important to remember the many sensational headlines that proclaimed a gay gene (or the like) had been discovered. Every few years, a new “discovery” would be made “proving” that people were born gay. That would soon be replaced by the latest “discovery.” None proved definitive. Back in February 1992, a cover story for Newsweek featured the face of an infant. Printed on its face was question, “Is This Child Gay?” In July 1993, The New York Times ran a story titled, “Report Suggests Homosexuality Is Linked to Genes.” Yet today, 25 years later, even left-leaning, LGBT -affirming organizations do not claim people are born gay....

 - One of the untouchable dogmas of the homosexualist movement is the assertion of the existence of a "gay gene", or a genetic marker that causes same-sex attraction . The assertion of a genetic factor in homosexual preference has never been demonstrated by scientists and now at least one prominent campaigner in the British homosexualist movement has admitted this fact. Peter Tatchell , an Australian -born British homosexual activist who founded the "direct action" group OutRage! that specialises in media stunts such as disrupting Christian religious services, wrote on Spiked Online that he agrees with the scientific consensus that there is no such thing as a "gay gene." Contrary to the findings of some researchers who have tried to posit a purely genetic origin for same-sex attractions, Tatchell wrote, " Genes and hormones may predispose a person to one sexuality rather than another. But that’s all. Predisposition and determination are two dif...

Dr. Neil Whitehead, November 2006 interview   No Gay Gene: here Related articles The Truth About Homosexuality (gunnyg.wordpress.com) Genes Are Not Destiny (andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com) Remembering failed engineering | Gene Expression (blogs.discovermagazine.com) Homophobia Gone Wild: The Worthless Words Of Worden (biblioblography.blogspot.com) Family Values Apparently Include Hate, Murder, And Discrimination (doubledippolitics.com) Study Suggests Gay Men Have Evolutionary Benefit For Their Families (brandtstandard.com) The Gay Gene: New Evidence Supports an Old Hypothesis (bigthink.com) 'Gay gene' survives through generations as female relatives of homosexual men 'have more babies' (dailymail.co.uk) One Direction Confirms Homosexuality With On-Stage Kiss (mkpage.com) STUDY: Male Homosexuality Has Strong Genetic Basis Offset By Increased Female Fertility (thinkprogress.org)

This image shows the coding region in a segment of eukaryotic DNA. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It is reasonable to assume that sexual behavior--in any and all of its manifestation—is directed by the activity of many, possibly hundred of genes. But the exact and specific type of sexual expression is also influenced by countless environmental forces that interact with the genes in complex ways (Hubbard, 1997; Ridley, 2003). Except for the rare physical abnormalities (such as Huntington’s Disease ) at the present time, there is no evidence of a direct causative link between a single gene and complex psycho-social behavior such as sexual preference (Collins, 2006). This is not my opinion but read any book on behavior genetics or molecular biology and the authors will unanimously agree that, at present, there is no gay gene. Lewontin et al. stated this explicitly: “Up to the present time no one has ever been able to relate any aspect of human social behavior to any  par...