Unstable behaviour
Unstable behaviour
A leading activist agrees that homosexual preferences are fluid and changing. If so, why do gays need special treatment?
By Peter Saunders
Mercator Net
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/unstable_behaviour
January 30, 2012
Many people think that homosexuality is a biological characteristic like race or sex - biologically fixed and genetically determined. They think this because this is the view that has been successfully propagated by the gay rights lobby for decades in order to provide a justification for arguing that 'homophobia' is a form of discrimination akin to racism or sexism.
This belief has also been behind moves to treat discrimination against 'practising' homosexuals as a human rights issue by pretending that homosexuals are a biological category like 'women' or 'Asians' whose distinctive features are genetically determined rather than just a group who have simply made a certain life-style choice.
But in fact the strength and direction of erotic attraction, although relatively stable in some people, can be quite changeable in others - it is often not fixed at all.
Similarly, identical twins often have different sexual orientations proving that, although sexual orientation may have some genetic influences, it is not genetically determined. There is, in other words, no such thing as the gay gene.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
A leading activist agrees that homosexual preferences are fluid and changing. If so, why do gays need special treatment?
By Peter Saunders
Mercator Net
http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/unstable_behaviour
January 30, 2012
Many people think that homosexuality is a biological characteristic like race or sex - biologically fixed and genetically determined. They think this because this is the view that has been successfully propagated by the gay rights lobby for decades in order to provide a justification for arguing that 'homophobia' is a form of discrimination akin to racism or sexism.This belief has also been behind moves to treat discrimination against 'practising' homosexuals as a human rights issue by pretending that homosexuals are a biological category like 'women' or 'Asians' whose distinctive features are genetically determined rather than just a group who have simply made a certain life-style choice.
But in fact the strength and direction of erotic attraction, although relatively stable in some people, can be quite changeable in others - it is often not fixed at all.
Similarly, identical twins often have different sexual orientations proving that, although sexual orientation may have some genetic influences, it is not genetically determined. There is, in other words, no such thing as the gay gene.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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