So... when did you CHOOSE to be heterosexual?

Post #387,174 by folkert 3/3/14 9:44:44 PM Reply	So... when did you CHOOSE to be heterosexual? If it is a choice... then when did you choose to be a heterosexual? Come now, scared to answer it? It's ok, we all know your answer. You just have to tell the truth. -- greg@gregfolkert.net "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Post #387,187 by mmoffitt 3/4/14 9:28:10 AM Reply	This is my last on this, and only because I like you & Scott Holding that homosexuality is not provably based upon biology is not the same as saying it's a choice. I do not now, nor have I ever believed it was a choice. I believe it is most likely biologically based and multi-gene. I also believe that in 1973, well before the mapping of the human genome, we cut off a line of inquiry forever that might have helped solve the riddle. In today's political climate, who is going to dare ask for funding for a study of the genes responsible for mental illness among homosexuals? What if the interactions between those genes and others give rise to homosexuality? We'll never know because we deferred to a "vote" based upon the study of 30 individuals. If it is the case that homosexuality is related to mental illness, we'll never know it because we've chosen willful blindness.
Post #387,188 by pwhysall 3/4/14 9:54:42 AM Reply	What's the hypothesis, here? Before you go off and study the genes responsible for mental illness in a homosexual population, what would attract you to this line of investigation? There's no riddle. Some people like crazy buttsecks, or drinking from the furry cup. Some people don't. We is what we is. What would you do with the answer if you got one? Tell all those poor gays that it's OK, they're just insane in the brain? You might just as profitably investigate why some colonial weirdos like Vegemite and Superior Imperial Beings prefer Marmite. And finally: if it's not a choice, why do you advocate discriminating on the basis of it?
Post #387,189 by mmoffitt 3/4/14 10:13:16 AM Reply	Re: what would attract you to this line of investigation? Because it was once classified as a mental illness. Having it striken from the list of diagnoses had absolutely nothing to do with science.
Post #387,190 by boxley 3/4/14 10:21:05 AM Reply	exactly, same as being lefthanded is no longer considered a mental illness. Should have left it in for more study Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #387,195 by mmoffitt 3/4/14 11:45:25 AM Reply	Um. Somebody did continue study: http://www.medicalne...ticles/267047.php
Post #387,192 by pwhysall 3/4/14 10:24:30 AM Reply	So you want to check whether it still is a mental illness?
Post #387,194 by drook 3/4/14 10:29:52 AM Reply	If we must keep this up, new thread please? -- Drew
Post #387,197 by crazy 3/4/14 12:55:52 PM Reply	Because if it an illness, it might be fixable or prevented Normal vs not normal line of thought gets him in trouble. But if it is an illness, he can claim he simply wants sick people to get better as a rationalization for simply wanting to oppress those that make him uncomfortable. Here, I'll run with it. There are all kinds of genetic variations that may end up being harmful to the individual, while being beneficial to the population at large. Like sickle cell anemia, which protects against malaria. In this case (the "gay" gene (or groupings which tend toward it)), a portion of the population has ended up with genes that may be individually harmful (assholes abuse them because they carry this trait), while also being beneficial to society in general (it allows the rest of us to identify the assholes).
Post #387,198 by drook 3/4/14 1:03:24 PM Reply	New. Thread. Please. -- Drew

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