Originally Posted by RobJordan
Originally Posted by justin10mm
Originally Posted by Dixie_Rebel
No surprise whatsoever they have more health problems. And for the record, it is a CHOICE! They are NOT born that way.



Your proof to backup this statement is....?


Twin studies involving identical male twins, raised in different homes and with no knowledge of, or interaction with the other twin brother do not have a 100% concordance rate in homosexuality. In other words, if one twin is homosexual, the occurrence of homosexuality in the other twin is considerably less than 100%. If sexual preference is "genetically determined" (as the color of your eyes is genetically determined), then we would expect a 100% concordance rate in homosexuality among identical twin boys (identical meaning boys having exactly the same genotype) where one of the boys (brothers) is a homosexual. The fact the concordance rate is less than 100% as between identical twin brothers means that although genes might be a necessary condition to the emergence of homosexuality in males, they (genes) are not a sufficient condition. It is therefore not the genes that are determinative, but the environment. As Jeffrey Goldberg has put it (paraphrasing from memory) but for the necessary facilitating environmental conditions, homosexuality will not occur regardless of genetic propensity.

BTW, female homosexuality is an entirely separate and distinct phenomena from male homosexuality in terms of causation.


Jordan


It's no surprise that it's the extreme religious nut who take the extreme all-or-none position.

Twin studies actually do demonstrate a genetic component to sexual preference. Although genetics is not 100% deterministic, the largest twin study, which included all adult twins in Sweden showed genetic influences explained 40% of the variance in sexual orientation in men. You assertion there's not biological component to sexual orientation is a result of your great delusion related to a guy reading from gold plates and declaring American Indians the Lost Tribe of Israel. crazy


You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.

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