08-25-2015, 03:20 PM
(08-25-2015, 03:17 PM)bfine32 Wrote: I'm not arguing the morality; I'm arguing the science. I simply disagree with the notion that homosexuality is genetic just as I disagree pedophilia is genetic. I'm of the opinion that both occur in the mind, not in the genes. I know full well there is no comparison of the societal behavior of the homosexual and the pedophile; I just feel there could be a similar process in the brain that motivates each.
There is no consensus to the cause of homosexuality, but somehow you are traversing a slippery-slope if you think it might be a function of the brain as opposed to the body. Hell pat compared it to autism and no one raise an eyebrow; why was that? Someone else compared it to eye color. The majority of the people in the world have brown eyes, yet in Iceland 88% of the population is born with either Green or Blue. Guess why that is? Is there a place in the world where folks are born more frequently with this gay trait?
The brain is a part of the body. Differences in brain functionality often have to do with the chemistry occurring there which is controlled, in a large part, by the way genes are expressed. So saying it is something in the brain is not at all disconnecting it from genetics as genetics plays a part in the way our brain reacts to certain things as well.
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