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In the early 2000's, the International Human Genome Consortium revealed its long awaited conclusion regarding the isolation of the so-called 'gay gene'. As with many other tests of this sort, as the world undoubtedly held its breath in anticipation, alas it came to nothing. Homosexuals have been compared to fruit flies, and a number of other bi-sexual woodland creatures, as pro-homosexual supporters scramble to find even a shred of conclusive scientific or physiological evidence substantiating that this disorder is something other than a perversion.
Not all genetic conditions can be traced to a single gene. Genetic conditions are often a result of the interaction of multiple genes, and oftentimes, the environment does play a factor. Take Usher's Syndrome (http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/hearing/usher.htm - broken link), for example. It's proven to be a genetic condition, and causes deafness and blindness, but it comes in different degrees: Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, and subtypes a and b because it's a result of multiple genes interacting with each other. And more is still being studied--for example, why do two people with the same gene patterns for Usher's end up losing their hearing or vision at different points in their life and to different degrees? There are doctors that devote their entire career to studying Usher's. But that doesn't make the deafness and blindness that Usher's people experience any less real just because it can't be owed to one single gene or because there are still things doctors don't know about Usher's.
The environment may trigger a gene or a set of genes to turn on or off. To equate homosexuality with one single gene, completely independent of environmental factors, is to put a tremendously simplistic twist on a scientific issue that is still being studied today.
In any case, even if it were purely a choice for each person, what does that matter? Homosexuality isn't harmful. As long as any sexual practice is done privately between consenting adults, no one's getting hurt.
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This assumes that natural means "resulting in direct production of babies." However, while homosexuality doesn't directly lead to offspring, it does increase clutch size for some species. In other words, it doesn't make babies but it makes females ten times more fertile. In that way homosexuality could be seen as a means for reproduction, albeit a less direct one.
Another thing to consider is that if something being unnatural is grounds for disapproval, then why don't people who disapprove of homosexuality also disapprove of nail polish and asphalt roads and the myriad of other unnatural things we do and make every day?
No it doesn't, you made that assumption on your own. I can't even begin to address your insane second comment, you'll grasping at straws with every turn.
Nice deflection. You have no "natural" answer to all the millions of women that don't want to have babies even though by nature they were made to have babies. And you ignore the portion of men that have no interest in sex even though they should spread their sperm as nature tells them.
You're talking about what someone wants to do or doesn't want to do, that's a personal choice. I'm talking about what the human body was designed for or evolved to do, that's 2 VERY different things.
I own a chain saw, I can choose to use it to cut up wood as it was designed to do or I could just leave it in my workshop because I choose not to cut down trees... that doesn't change it's purpose or design. On the other hand if I try to use that chainsaw to stir paint I'm doing something unnatural. Sure it may work and chances are nobody is going to get hurt but that's not what the chainsaw was designed to do and you don't need to be a rocket scientist to realize that.
Unless you are gay and have been a victim of homophobia you have no clue...none.
I am not gay and I have never been a victim of homophobia mainly because I don't know anyone with an irrational fear of homosexuals... I don't need to be either of those things to form an educated opinion about homosexuality and basic biology.
No it doesn't, you made that assumption on your own. I can't even begin to address your insane second comment, you'll grasping at straws with every turn.
I didn't make that assumption on my own. That's the implication when someone views anything that doesn't lead to the reproduction of babies (a.k.a. heterosexuality) as unnatural.
The argument that homosexuality is unnatural is already grasping at straws. 90% of the things we do today, like driving cars, and using chainsaws, and so on and forth, are unnatural. The environment never selected for roads and houses. Mankind did that against nature, and we continue to destroy the environment as we insist on resisting against the natural flow of evolution. But most people don't care about that--they only care about "natural" when it pertains to homosexuality. It's a weak argument IMO.
I didn't make that assumption on my own. That's the implication when someone views anything that doesn't lead to the reproduction of babies (a.k.a. heterosexuality) as unnatural.
The argument that homosexuality is unnatural is already grasping at straws. 90% of the things we do today, like driving cars, and using chainsaws, and so on and forth, are unnatural. The environment never selected for roads and houses. Mankind did that against nature, and we continue to destroy the environment as we insist on resisting against the natural flow of evolution. But most people don't care about that--they only care about "natural" when it pertains to homosexuality. It's a weak argument IMO.
Who said anything about "leading to the reproduction of babies"? You keep bringing up reproduction, who besides you is talking about that?
You are so confused that you put words in that others never say. You have no clue at all. I am not confused, not matter how many times you say it, yet you will remain locked in your little world of bigotry. It is you that is trying to push your straight agenda on me. Get a life, and I never called you, "your boy" Where do you come with all the BS of yours. GET LOST.
I am not gay and I have never been a victim of homophobia mainly because I don't know anyone with an irrational fear of homosexuals... I don't need to be either of those things to form an educated opinion about homosexuality and basic biology.
Nobody is afraid of gay people, that definition is ridiculous.
The argument that homosexuality is unnatural is already grasping at straws. 90% of the things we do today, like driving cars, and using chainsaws, and so on and forth, are unnatural. The environment never selected for roads and houses. Mankind did that against nature, and we continue to destroy the environment as we insist on resisting against the natural flow of evolution. But most people don't care about that--they only care about "natural" when it pertains to homosexuality. It's a weak argument IMO.
The environment never selected for roads and houses.
That's not true. animals have paths that they use every day. Birds migrate, the same way every year. Many elk, deer, Wildebeests, Bison migrate on the same paths, every year. Birds build nests, gopher turtles dig holes, Bears use caves, as do Bats.
Who said anything about "leading to the reproduction of babies"? You keep bringing up reproduction, who besides you is talking about that?
To anyone who finds homosexuality unnatural in this thread, why do you find it unnatural?
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You're talking about what someone wants to do or doesn't want to do, that's a personal choice. I'm talking about what the human body was designed for or evolved to do, that's 2 VERY different things. 
