RE: Christian couple told they can't adopt due to their views on homosexuality.
March 4, 2011 at 11:47 am
(March 4, 2011 at 9:16 am)Rwandrall Wrote: Having bigoted parents, if that bigotry is the only big flaw these parents have, is still far better for the child than being an orphan.
Knowingly placing a child into an environment where they will be indoctrinated into anti-social thinking is unacceptable. Growing up in an orphanage is certainly far from ideal, and there are good foster homes and bad ones, but the state has an obligation to protect children from abuse. They can't knowingly subject them to it.
(March 4, 2011 at 8:52 am)theVOID Wrote:(March 3, 2011 at 11:11 pm)corndog36 Wrote: I have 2 friends who are identical twin sisters, one is gay the other straight. I've done a lot of research on the issue and the bulk of the evidence suggests that homosexuality is environmental. Since gays are less likely to procreate, natural selection should have eliminated the trait long ago if it were genetic.
Not the case, firstly you can have the same genes as an identical twin but have different genetic expression, this is likely caused by different conditions/exposures in the womb, it is rare but not unheard of for twins to be exposed to different hormonal levels, if you are to have a set of genes that have the potential for homosexuality this hormonal difference can cause a difference in the expression of these genes, resulting in one being homosexual and the other heterosexual - This same gene will also be passed down through the straight and gay children laying in wait until such time as there is another similar hormonal imbalance causing different expression of the genes.
We're straying off topic here. Everything about us is genetic to some degree,but the statistics on the expression of homosexuality in humans and most mammals would indicate that we all have the gene, it's expression appears to be determined by environmental factors.
Quote:There are also plenty of closet homosexuals in heterosexual marriages, Ted Haggard being a well known example, that is another way for the genes to be passed down.This phenomenon is too recent, in evolutionary terms, to explain the persistence of a 'gay gene'.
