Why?
I do. They are to hand BEFORE posting so that when fuller information is requested I can provide it.
Homosexual (or any other) perversion is nothing at all like hair colour or height.
You want actual research?
SOURCES:
journals:
• Archives of Sexual Behavior
• Archives of General Psychiatry
• Journal of Personality & Social Psychology
• Science
universities:
• Columbia University
• University of Utah
professional bodies:
• American Psychiatric Association
What part of..
.• people can change their “sexual orientation” from homosexual to heterosexual.
.• There is
no evidence at present to substantiate a biologic theory.
.• there are
no replicated scientific studies supporting any specific biological etiology for homosexuality.”
.• Other recent developments also suggest that
homosexuality is not genetically determined.
.• effectively
refutes the idea that homosexuality has a genetic basis.
.• “This finding alone argues for
the enormous importance of nongenetic factors influencing homosexuality,”
.• other researchers
tried to replicate his [Hamer's] study but failed.
.• “We were
not able to confirm evidence for an Xq28-linked locus underlying male homosexuality.”
.• when another group of researchers…tried to replicate Hamer’s study, they too
failed to find a genetic connection to homosexuality.
.• the chain of reasoning (from biology to social policy [regarding homosexuality]),
does not hold up under scrutiny.”
..can you not understand? Do you know what research is? Do you know what a peer reviewed academic journal is?
There is no link between homosexual behaviours and genetics, according to the researchers who work in that area - including the original proponent of the idea. How can you possibly suggest otherwise?
OK, there you have some sources to look up. Google has nothing to do with it those are actual sources with real research. What do the sources say?
Here's some concerning the Xq28 gene:
On this occasion I am going to deviate from my policy of only posting balanced and accurate information.
It will still be accurate BUT I AM GOING TO POST MATERIAL FROM HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVISTS so that you can see how ridiculous your assertion "Being gay in the brain from birth" really is.
1
FROM: Robert L. Spitzer, “Can Some Gay Men and Lesbians Change Their Sexual Orientation?”, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 32, No. 5, October 2003: 403-417.
Columbia University Professor of Psychiatry
Dr. Robert Spitzer,
who was instrumental in removing homosexuality in 1973 from the American Psychiatric Association’s list of mental disorders, wrote a study published in the October 2003 Archives of Sexual Behavior. He contended that people can change their “sexual orientation” from homosexual to heterosexual. Spitzer interviewed more than 200 people, most of whom claimed that through reparative therapy counseling, their desires for same-sex partners either diminished significantly or they changed over to heterosexual orientation. Although still a proponent of homosexual activism, Spitzer has been attacked unmercifully by former admirers for this breach of the ideology that people are “born gay and can’t change.” Immutability is a central tenet of demands for “gay rights” and “gay marriage.”
2
FROM: William Byne and Bruce Parsons, “Human Sexual Orientation: The Biologic Theories Reappraised,” Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol. 50, March 1993: 228-239.
There is no evidence at present to substantiate a biologic theory. ... The appeal of current biologic explanations for sexual orientation may derive more from dissatisfaction with the present status of psychosocial explanations than from a substantiating body of experimental data.
NOTE: Byne & Parsons [Columbia University] found numerous methodological flaws in
all of the studies undertaken ino "gay genes".
3
FROM: American Psychiatric Association: fact sheet, “Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues,” May 2000
“Currently, there is a renewed interest in searching for biological etiologies for homosexuality. However, to date there are
no replicated scientific studies supporting any specific biological etiology for homosexuality.”
4
LESBIANS
FROM: Charles Socarides, A Freedom Too Far: A Psychoanalyst Answers 1,000 Questions About Causes and Cure and the Impact of the Gay Rights Movement on American Society Adam Margrave Books, 1996 pp151-152 & pp115-155
Laura Sessions Stepp, “Partway Gay? For Some Teen Girls, Sexual Preference Is a Shifting Concept,” The Washington Post, January 4, 2004, p. D-1.
Lisa M. Diamond, “Was it a phase? Young women’s relinquishment of lesbian/bisexual identities over a 5-year period,” Journal of Personality & Social Psychology (2004).
Other recent developments also suggest that homosexuality is not genetically determined. The Washington Post reported that bisexuality is fashionable among many young teen girls, who go back and forth from being “straight” to “gay” to “bi” to “straight” again. Post reporter Laura Sessions Stepp writes:
Recent studies among women suggest that female homosexuality may be grounded more in social interaction, may present itself as an emotional attraction in addition to or in place of a physical one, and may change over time. She cites one such study by Lisa M. Diamond, assistant professor of psychology and gender studies at the University of Utah, who in 1994 began studying a group of females aged 16 to 23 who were attracted to other females. Over the course of the study, “almost two-thirds have changed labels,” Stepp reports.
5
TWINS
FROM: J. Michael Bailey, Richard C. Pillard, “A Genetic Study of Male Sexual Orientation,” Archives of General Psychiatry 48 (1991) 1089ff
Satinover, Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth, p. 85.
In 1991, J. Michael Bailey and Richard C. Pillard published a study that examined identical and fraternal twin brothers and adopted brothers in an effort to establish a genetic link to homosexuality. Fifty-two percent of the identical twins were reportedly homosexual, while only 22 percent of fraternal twins fell into the same category. But since identical twins have identical genetic material, the fact that nearly half of the identical twins were heterosexual effectively
refutes the idea that homosexuality has a genetic basis.
“This finding alone argues for the enormous importance of
nongenetic factors influencing homosexuality,” writes Dr. Jeffrey Satinover, “because ... in order for something to be genetically
determined, as opposed to merely influenced, the genetic heritability would need to approach 100 percent.” Satinover, a psychiatrist, notes that “
identical twins reared together share more significant environmental influences than
nonidentical twins reared together,” and that narcissism, a key component of homosexuality, is more likely among identical twins who “grow up with mirror images of themselves.”
6
FROM: Dean H. Hamer, George Rice, Neil Risch, and George Ebers,et al. “Genetics and Male Sexual Orientation” Technical Comment, Science 285 6 August 1999: 803a.
Another fact that casts doubt on Hamer’s conclusions is that other researchers tried to replicate his study but failed. In 1999, Drs. George Rice, Neil Risch and George Ebers published their findings in Science after attempting to replicate Hamer’s Xq28 study. Their conclusion: “We were not able to confirm evidence for an Xq28-linked locus underlying male homosexuality.”
Moreover, they added that when another group of researchers (Sanders, et al.) tried to replicate Hamer’s study, they too failed to find a genetic connection to homosexuality.
The information from Dr. Robert Spitzer [Professor of Psychiatry (Columbia University)] is particularly interesting.. You may recall that he was associated with the removal of homosexuality from the register of mental disorders.
• He has not changed his position regarding the register of mental disorders.
Similarly Dr. William Byne readily advocates societal acceptance of homosexuality and “gay rights,” but nevertheless concludes, “Most of the links in the chain of reasoning from biology to social policy [regarding homosexuality], do not hold up under scrutiny.”
The ongoing evaluation of all these research programmes continues to yield only one result. There is no link between homosexual behaviours and genetics, according to the researchers who work in that area. The more studies done the stronger the evidence.
The researchers I've quoted all agree that homosexuals should not be discriminated against and some are political activists. I chose them for that reason. Whether they deliberately skewed their results or knowingly omitted data which would give a more accurate result is a question as yet unresolved, but they all now accept the data of numerous studies including not only Xq28 but a bizarre range of other "biological indicators" - none of which have any basis in reality. These (and others) are available as a pdf if you can be bothered reading it.
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But from your remarks so far I'd say that you've never read anything on this subject. The pdf might one place to start.
THIS would be a better one.
The opinions of Christians however do not derive from research projects undertaken by homosexual &/or gay activist professors of psychiatry. As Pastor Ezekiel has pointed out, God
tells us what to think & that
is what we think.
I Corinthians 1:23
Praise Him!