15th May 2005, 1:04 AM
I believed what I believed even when I was atheist. Religion doesn't influence me here. You're using that as a convient dismissal, but I doubt you'll find in the Bible anything alluding to the cause of homosexuality.
Quite simply, the only thing you have to defend your argument is a few spotty science reports and a boatload of wishful thinking. You want to make gays the next endangered species.
I believe environment plays a huge role in determining sexuality. I don't believe genetics do. There's simply too much about it that doesn't fit with the gene theory. Such a recessive gene that inhibits procreation would very likely have been weeded out to the point where we would view homosexuality as some sort of exotic disease, like Down's Syndrome or one of those wonderful disorders that calcify the entire human body or makes one terribly allergic to sunlight. Healthy procreative activity would prohibit such a gene from becoming as widespread as it would appear to be now.
Of course, that's all an aside. There's not a shred of evidence proving homosexuality to be a genetic disorder, and as the human genome becomes more completely mapped, and the total absence of the mythical 'gay gene' remains a truth, it's only a matter of time before you find some other magical problem to blame homosexuality on.
I've gone on the record dozens of times stating that homosexuals are normal, decent human beings, who differ from me only in one particular choice they make. I don't see how my faith and beliefs can make that appear to you as "I think they're subhumans who should die in hell", other than the fact that you're an atheist and you revel in your painfully ignorant assumptions about Christians. That I have such beliefs also gives you a convenient opportunity to divert the argument to my beliefs, shadowing the fact that your stance on the topic is one that does not hold up to logic or established scientific fact.
Quite simply, the only thing you have to defend your argument is a few spotty science reports and a boatload of wishful thinking. You want to make gays the next endangered species.
I believe environment plays a huge role in determining sexuality. I don't believe genetics do. There's simply too much about it that doesn't fit with the gene theory. Such a recessive gene that inhibits procreation would very likely have been weeded out to the point where we would view homosexuality as some sort of exotic disease, like Down's Syndrome or one of those wonderful disorders that calcify the entire human body or makes one terribly allergic to sunlight. Healthy procreative activity would prohibit such a gene from becoming as widespread as it would appear to be now.
Of course, that's all an aside. There's not a shred of evidence proving homosexuality to be a genetic disorder, and as the human genome becomes more completely mapped, and the total absence of the mythical 'gay gene' remains a truth, it's only a matter of time before you find some other magical problem to blame homosexuality on.
I've gone on the record dozens of times stating that homosexuals are normal, decent human beings, who differ from me only in one particular choice they make. I don't see how my faith and beliefs can make that appear to you as "I think they're subhumans who should die in hell", other than the fact that you're an atheist and you revel in your painfully ignorant assumptions about Christians. That I have such beliefs also gives you a convenient opportunity to divert the argument to my beliefs, shadowing the fact that your stance on the topic is one that does not hold up to logic or established scientific fact.
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