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Ok, first off, I've never been too into "gay rights" or really given a damn because like most hetrosexual males, I found the thought ofhomosexuality utterly disgusting and ungodly.
But what really challenged and completely changed my views on homosexuality was the thought that it was something people were born with. In other wordsit's biological.
Science now has pretty good evidence that homosexuality is actually biological. Studies have found that the prenatal androgenic exposure like testosterone canexplain homosexuality (Maucieri, Stone 200
. More specifically the exposure given during 5th months of gestation (Lippa 2003). Or how things like the order ofbirth can influence homosexuality. The more children a mother has the more likely Y-linked antibodies are to be exposed to the fetus (Maucieri, Stone 200.
Science keeps finding more and more biological differences between gays and heterosexuals like the difference in size hypothalamic nucleus (Greenberg, Bailey1993). Greenberg and Bailey also cited that boys who are a bit feminine at an early eage usually turn out to be homosexualy in adulthood.
There's literally thousands of pieces of evidence that link homosexuality with being innate, something not caused by individual behavior choices orenvironment. I dont' have the time nor patience to cite all of them.
So why after it being pretty accepted in the scietific community that homosexuality is innate do we still hold prejudices against gay?
The Greenberg article I cited said it would call for too much policy change and attitude change in our government which it itself could contradict manypolicies we already have. The government would have to come out and say we were wrong you gays were right.
I think in our society it's accepted to be prejudice against gays. Hell, I'd go as far as saying it's almost not accepted to show acceptancetowards gay.
My biggest question I have for NT is if you believe homosexuality is biological then why are you still prejudice against them? Or better yet, why do you notDEMAND they get equal rights.
I think some think that if we openly accept gays then suddenly EVERYONE will be gay. Again, if homosexuality is a biological thing, people wouldn'tsuddenly choose to be gay in a wide scale sense.
Why do you not call out your friends and others for their negative attitudes towards gay?
My other question is if you do not believe in the biological explatation then why not?
I truly believe people just do not like to change their believes. One of my favorite quotes is from a psychologist who said, "When our beliefs arecontradicted by evidence in the world, it is better to adjust our beliefs than to deny the evidence and cling tenaciously to dysfunctional ideas."
It's almost 2009, can our society really afford to continue discriminating against homosexuals based purely on their negative biases?
For those who use religion to discriminate against gays, this is even really more curious.
Everybody points to the line from Leviticus chapter 20 to condem homosexuality.
But what really challenged and completely changed my views on homosexuality was the thought that it was something people were born with. In other wordsit's biological.
Science now has pretty good evidence that homosexuality is actually biological. Studies have found that the prenatal androgenic exposure like testosterone canexplain homosexuality (Maucieri, Stone 200
. More specifically the exposure given during 5th months of gestation (Lippa 2003). Or how things like the order ofbirth can influence homosexuality. The more children a mother has the more likely Y-linked antibodies are to be exposed to the fetus (Maucieri, Stone 200.Science keeps finding more and more biological differences between gays and heterosexuals like the difference in size hypothalamic nucleus (Greenberg, Bailey1993). Greenberg and Bailey also cited that boys who are a bit feminine at an early eage usually turn out to be homosexualy in adulthood.
There's literally thousands of pieces of evidence that link homosexuality with being innate, something not caused by individual behavior choices orenvironment. I dont' have the time nor patience to cite all of them.
So why after it being pretty accepted in the scietific community that homosexuality is innate do we still hold prejudices against gay?
The Greenberg article I cited said it would call for too much policy change and attitude change in our government which it itself could contradict manypolicies we already have. The government would have to come out and say we were wrong you gays were right.
I think in our society it's accepted to be prejudice against gays. Hell, I'd go as far as saying it's almost not accepted to show acceptancetowards gay.
My biggest question I have for NT is if you believe homosexuality is biological then why are you still prejudice against them? Or better yet, why do you notDEMAND they get equal rights.
I think some think that if we openly accept gays then suddenly EVERYONE will be gay. Again, if homosexuality is a biological thing, people wouldn'tsuddenly choose to be gay in a wide scale sense.
Why do you not call out your friends and others for their negative attitudes towards gay?
My other question is if you do not believe in the biological explatation then why not?
I truly believe people just do not like to change their believes. One of my favorite quotes is from a psychologist who said, "When our beliefs arecontradicted by evidence in the world, it is better to adjust our beliefs than to deny the evidence and cling tenaciously to dysfunctional ideas."
It's almost 2009, can our society really afford to continue discriminating against homosexuals based purely on their negative biases?
For those who use religion to discriminate against gays, this is even really more curious.
Everybody points to the line from Leviticus chapter 20 to condem homosexuality.
