7th April 2003, 4:45 PM
And if you deliberately choose things that bring about a particular set of consequences, then you deliberately choose to accept them. If you smoke, you are deliberately causing lung damage to yourself, even if that isn't your intent. If you choose to expose yourself to influences that eventually determine your sexual preference, then you are choosing to be gay.
Here's another scenario to disprove the genetic angle:
I'm assuming all of us involved are straight, though I can only speak for myself with certainty. If gay people are gay because of genetics, that means our genes made us straight. And if you claim that gay people can't be straight because they are genetically gay, I ask you this: If any of us were to have gay sex, could our genes stop us? Could our genetic makeup somehow prevent us from giving another male a blowjob at the last second?
Of course not. Anyone can perform a homosexual act. No one is genetically tied to one sex or the other. I, or Darunia, or ABF or Beano or James Garner or Shigeru Miyamoto could, at anytime, perform a homosexual act, even though we're all heterosexual. If sexuality were genetic, we would be prevented somehow. If you're born with testicles that produce sperm, you can't simply decide to turn them off, because sperm production is a genetic trait. If you're born with blue eyes, you can't decide to change them to green, because eye color is genetic. However, any human can have sex with any other human, because that trait is not genetic. There is nothing, nothing at all that can stop any person from being heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual.
Again, this is common sense and basic science at work. Disagreeing isn't offering a differing opinion, it's being flat out wrong. Just because a person believes the world is flat doesn't mean he isn't wrong.
And if you call me wrong, you better prove it. This cycle of proving my point, and being told it's wrong by people who cannot substantiate their own position is getting very old.
Simple fact is, there is much evidence to support the fact that homosexuality is environmental/decisionary and there is almost no evidence supporting the myth that it's genetic. There is no gay gene. No one ever found one and the very existence of one is damn near impossible, as it would be very, very difficult to pass on.
I know it's too much to expect some sort of substantiated counterproof from you children, it's more likely that you'll make a response including such things as "how could any sane person believe that" and "you hate gays and wish they would die". But a man can hope. :)
Here's another scenario to disprove the genetic angle:
I'm assuming all of us involved are straight, though I can only speak for myself with certainty. If gay people are gay because of genetics, that means our genes made us straight. And if you claim that gay people can't be straight because they are genetically gay, I ask you this: If any of us were to have gay sex, could our genes stop us? Could our genetic makeup somehow prevent us from giving another male a blowjob at the last second?
Of course not. Anyone can perform a homosexual act. No one is genetically tied to one sex or the other. I, or Darunia, or ABF or Beano or James Garner or Shigeru Miyamoto could, at anytime, perform a homosexual act, even though we're all heterosexual. If sexuality were genetic, we would be prevented somehow. If you're born with testicles that produce sperm, you can't simply decide to turn them off, because sperm production is a genetic trait. If you're born with blue eyes, you can't decide to change them to green, because eye color is genetic. However, any human can have sex with any other human, because that trait is not genetic. There is nothing, nothing at all that can stop any person from being heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual.
Again, this is common sense and basic science at work. Disagreeing isn't offering a differing opinion, it's being flat out wrong. Just because a person believes the world is flat doesn't mean he isn't wrong.
And if you call me wrong, you better prove it. This cycle of proving my point, and being told it's wrong by people who cannot substantiate their own position is getting very old.
Simple fact is, there is much evidence to support the fact that homosexuality is environmental/decisionary and there is almost no evidence supporting the myth that it's genetic. There is no gay gene. No one ever found one and the very existence of one is damn near impossible, as it would be very, very difficult to pass on.
I know it's too much to expect some sort of substantiated counterproof from you children, it's more likely that you'll make a response including such things as "how could any sane person believe that" and "you hate gays and wish they would die". But a man can hope. :)
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