Postby Technomancer » Mon Jul 07, 2003 8:13 am
We seem to be drifting off topic here (something for which I certainly share the balme). However, I don't think c.o. has fully understood what I said:
What I was getting at was that the current scientific understanding of homosexuality indicates that certain individuals are genetically predisposed to this condition (which is also what Rashiir said). Being gay (ie. being physically/romantically attracted to the same sex) mostly arises from biological factors. This is not to say that it is an uncontrollable problem (any more than natural heterosexual impulses are). Being human beings we are capable of self-discipline and moral choice, and can overrule our desires. To clear up any confusion: I did not say that homosexual acts were proper.
Further information on this issue may also be found in:
LeVay, S. and DH Hamer. "Evidence for a Biological Influence in Male Homosexuality".
Scientific American May 1994: pp 44-49.
75% of gay christians arent trying to struggle to no be gays....theyre trying to accept it as soemthing natural which it is not..
Care to back that up friend?
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov