21st October 2003, 2:24 PM
Creating a victim where none exists is what you're doing. I mean, why would there be pride parades held to celebrate a mental or genetic illness? I mean, I can believe that someone who dresses up for a parade in bare-ass leathers and calls themselves "Timmy and Tommy, the Testicle Twins" has some screws loose, but those people are a minority, and their depravity probably is due to things other than their sexual preference. I know several gay people, work with several, and I don't believe for a second that any of them suffer from any sort of genetic or mental illness. They seem normal to me, other than the choice they make.
Now, we can, and have, argued until we're blue in the fingers over the matter, and OB1's right: You never budge and neither do I. Given some widely-accepted study one of us will probably be forced to one day, but for now, single and anomalous studies that think homosexuality "may" be out of someone's control is very far from the ironclad law of science you make it to be. My beliefs are based on my own personal knowledge of biology and psychology, and what OB1 says is true: Some arguments do favor your position, but for it to be absolute you must ignore several glaring discrepancies that keep creeping in, as you seem to be saying that homosexuality is not only a malady of the genes or biology, but such an incredibly different malady from any other known to science that several known broad facts about both biology and psychology that do not allow for such a thing to be possible simply do not matter in this single case.
So no, I'm not conceding based on this very iffy and unsubstantiated single finding, and I'd be crazy if I did.
Now, we can, and have, argued until we're blue in the fingers over the matter, and OB1's right: You never budge and neither do I. Given some widely-accepted study one of us will probably be forced to one day, but for now, single and anomalous studies that think homosexuality "may" be out of someone's control is very far from the ironclad law of science you make it to be. My beliefs are based on my own personal knowledge of biology and psychology, and what OB1 says is true: Some arguments do favor your position, but for it to be absolute you must ignore several glaring discrepancies that keep creeping in, as you seem to be saying that homosexuality is not only a malady of the genes or biology, but such an incredibly different malady from any other known to science that several known broad facts about both biology and psychology that do not allow for such a thing to be possible simply do not matter in this single case.
So no, I'm not conceding based on this very iffy and unsubstantiated single finding, and I'd be crazy if I did.
YOU CANNOT HIDE FOREVER
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