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Author Topic:   Homosexuality Can Be Genetically Turned On & Off
Taz
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Message 3 of 20 (439889)
12-10-2007 7:14 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by molbiogirl
12-10-2007 6:58 PM


In the past, I have presented some research that "cured" homosexual animal of their homosexuality, particularly in goats and sheeps. The researchers used some kind of hormonal treatments to achieve this goal. I'm too lazy to dig up the articles now, but at the time this group of researchers got blasted by gay rights crowd and lost a lot of their fundings because of the implication they found.
You should talk to nem_jug about this, since he has said several times now that if we could show him homosexuality is in fact in nature and not simply by human choice then he will accept it.
Personally, I don't really care if homosexuality is a choice or not. The question of whether this is a choice or not should have absolutely no bearing on gay right issues. I just want to point that out before we lose track.
Although Hoot Mon did say that once we can "cure" people of homosexuality then homosexuality will indeed be a matter of choice. This is the reason why I think Hoot Mon is an in-the-closet homophobe. He said this without even considering the fact that if that is the case then heterosexuality would also be a choice.
Edited by Taz, : No reason given.

Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!

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Taz
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Message 6 of 20 (439919)
12-10-2007 9:56 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by Silent H
12-10-2007 8:54 PM


Holmes, yes, while what you say is true regarding the "choice" crowd, you have to keep in mind one very important argument that those people make against homosexuality. The argument is it's not found in nature. You should talk to nem_jug about this. Even after I showed him many examples of animal that persistantly and consistantly have homosexual tendencies as well as animal that form monogomous relationships with same sex partners, he still dismissed all my examples as "dogs humping other random dogs". He even told us that he would finally accept homosexuality as "natural" (whatever that means) if we could show him that it is found in nature. I don't think you can get anymore natural (non-choice) than fruit flies.

Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!

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Taz
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Message 10 of 20 (439950)
12-10-2007 11:09 PM
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12-10-2007 10:23 PM


You'd have to ask him. Personally, I don't think he makes a lot of sense at times.

Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!

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