Hoot Mon writes:
By invoking an "interracial marriage" comparison to "same-sex marriage" you are assuming they are actually comparable. I don't believe they are, simply because that which causes a black man to be black is not anything like that which causes a gay man to be gay.
That depends what you mean, but it could well be that people who are primarily attracted to others of the same sex are born that way. It's biological enough to show in the brain:
From this article (June 16, yesterday)
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The brains of gay men and women look like those found in heterosexual people of the opposite sex, research suggests.
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Dr Qazi Rahman, a lecturer in cognitive biology at Queen Mary, University of London, said that he believed that these brain differences were laid down early in foetal development.
"As far as I'm concerned there is no argument any more - if you are gay, you are born gay," he said.
There's still loads of unknowns about what makes sexuality, but it looks increasingly as though our basic orientation is biologically predetermined.
I've just read on in the thread, and seen that Ned suggests you might open a thread on this.
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