Gay Scientism
Scientists swapped a gene in fruit flies and turned them queer. Now they're proclaiming the dispute about whether homosexuality is hereditary or environmental is almost over . . . in favor hereditary. Link. Excerpts:
The long-running scientific debate about whether homosexuality is determined by nature or nurture is dramatically closer to resolution after new scientific evidence was published yesterday.
Biotechnologists have found evidence that sexuality is, after all, determined by genes and not environment. Researchers discovered a single "switch gene" that swaps the sexual orientation of males and females. . .
. . . Dr Michael Weiss, chairman of biochemistry at Ohio University, was as surprised at the findings. "It seems that none of us chooses our sexuality. It just happens. The results are so clean and compelling, the whole field of the genetic roots of behaviour is moved forward tremendously by this work," he said.
"Hopefully this will take the discussion about sexual preferences out of the realm of morality and put it in the realm of science."
We're mostly baffled by the whole "nature v. nurture" debate. We've never found it believable that homosexuality isn't somehow rooted in the person's condition. Who, quite frankly, would want to do that? Thing is, who would want to be an alcoholic? Yet some people drink a ton and never become alcoholics. Others drink less, and develop the problem. It's something in each person's condition: a proclivity for certain sins. Even if it is "natural" in that sense, that doesn't make it morally right, any more than the man with a big sex-drive is morally justified cheating on his wife.
