• Dr Dean Hamer, the director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute in America, asked volunteers 226 questions in order to determine how spiritually connected they felt to the universe. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • One of the main original proponents of gay gene theory, Dr Dean Hamer, now concedes that it is unlikely that something as complex as human sexuality can be explained solely in terms of genetic inheritance. (spiked-online.com)
  • The esteemed research journal Science published a study by Dean Hamer in July of 1993 which claims that there might be a gene for homosexuality. (myfaithonly.com)
  • Genetically speaking it is very unlikely that this is the root of homosexuality. (shroomery.org)
  • These efforts led to the observation that wild-type (genetically unaltered) male flies will participate in homosexual courtship when exposed to a vigorous male-male courtship environment, demonstrating that both genetic factors and environmental cues influence this behavior. (nybooks.com)
  • homosexuality cannot be genetically dictated. (wdtprs.com)
  • Ignore those researchers who claim to have discovered a 'gay gene', says Peter Tatchell: gay desire is not genetically determined. (spiked-online.com)
  • If heterosexuality and homosexuality are, indeed, genetically predetermined (and therefore mutually exclusive and unchangeable), how do we explain bisexuality or people who, suddenly in mid-life, switch from heterosexuality to homosexuality (or vice versa)? (spiked-online.com)
  • Because identical twins are always genetically identical, homosexuality cannot be genetically dictated. (billmuehlenberg.com)
  • However, the likelihood that the identical twin of a homosexual male will also be gay is about 20% (compared with 2-4 percent of males in the general population), indicating that sexual orientation is genetically influenced but not hardwired by DNA, and that whatever genes are involved represent predispositions, not predeterminations. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • Dr. Ruth Westheimer and Dr. Louis Lieberman state in their book entitled "Sex and Morality" that, "The homosexual no more chooses homosexuality than the heterosexual chooses heterosexuality. (myfaithonly.com)
  • More than 200 years later, research has moved past some of the taboos those early researchers faced and shown that homosexuality is much more common than previously thought. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • But this argument has never been substantiated, despite the fact that studies have shown that homosexuality is a heritable trait. (iflscience.com)
  • The studies have shown that homosexuality has both a heritable and an environmental component. (iflscience.com)
  • It tells the history of genetics and reports on new breakthroughs and ethical questions resulting from gene manipulation. (wkar.org)
  • So we're going to say lung cancer but with genetics or genes that share some things with leukemia. (wkar.org)
  • These findings contribute to the notion that although homosexuality can be inherited, this does not occur according to the rules of classical genetics. (iflscience.com)
  • If homosexuality is caused by genetics or prenatal conditions and one twin is gay, the co-twin should also be gay. (wdtprs.com)
  • On April 4, 2007, Dean Byrd posted an article on the NARTH website titled, "'Homosexuality Is Not Hardwired,' Concludes Dr. Francis S. Collins, Head Of The Human Genome Project" In this article, Byrd quotes from Collins book, The Language of God, citing Collins views of the genetics and homosexuality. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • According to Ed Miller , it results from a balanced polymorphism-a delicate balancing act where too much feminization of the male brain causes attraction to one's own sex and too little causes indifference to one's own children. (blogspot.com)
  • Since natural selection would tend to eliminate male homosexuality, it should be uncommon-like most genetic conditions that impair one's ability to survive and reproduce. (blogspot.com)
  • Namely, that homosexuality is genetic - so hard-wired into one's identity that it can't be changed. (wdtprs.com)
  • According to the primitive natural order of things (evolution), the natural purpose of sex is reproduction, getting one's genes into the next generation. (str.org)
  • A genomic interrogation of homosexuality turns up speculative links between genetic elements and sexual orientation, but researchers say the study is too small to be significant. (the-scientist.com)
  • In a small study of male twins, nine methylation sites helped researchers predict a person's sexual orientation. (the-scientist.com)
  • Researchers are now going beyond just observing it though, with researchers at Imperial leading the way in unravelling how, and why, homosexuality is found across nature. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • In 2014, researchers confirmed the association between same-sex orientation in men and a specific chromosomal region . (iflscience.com)
  • Ushering the politically explosive study of the origins of sexual orientation into a new and perhaps more scientifically rigorous phase, researchers report that they have linked male homosexuality to a small region of one human chromosome. (myfaithonly.com)
  • Among male homosexuals, sodomy or anal intercourse is the act substituted for heterosexual penile-vaginal coitus. (fourwinds10.com)
  • For instance, regarding the destruction of Sodom, which gives us the root of the word "sodomy," White cites Ezekiel 16: 48-49 and its description of Sodom's sins, which do not include homosexuality: "This is the sin of Sodom, she and her suburbs had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not help or encourage the poor and needy. (jacksonfreepress.com)
  • What is the Shariah punishment for Sodomy (Homosexuality)? (muslimprophets.com)
  • Male homosexuals engage in sodomy not because of an attraction to a physical body part (women have that body part, too), but rather because of an attraction to a gender. (str.org)
  • They are male erotic, and sodomy is an expression of that desire. (str.org)
  • The female fish found the males more attractive after the male had a same-sex interaction in the same way they did with opposite sex interaction. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Why is it then deemed natural to have male genitals, but be dispositionally incapable of using them to accomplish their reproductive purpose with the opposite sex? (str.org)
  • That may sound counter-intuitive, but one University of Frankfurt study , published by Royal Society Biology Letters , found that homosexual behaviour increases male attractiveness to females. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Hence, direct benefits for males of exhibiting homosexual behaviour may help explain its occurrence and persistence in species in which females rely on mate choice copying as one component of mate quality assessment," the paper said. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Homosexuality in males and females has a heritability in most studies of around 30-40% with plenty of room for environment. (theconversation.com)
  • Females have two X's, males have an X and a Y. (shroomery.org)
  • Last week, a team of scientists at the University of Padova in Italy made headlines around the world when they claimed to have discovered that homosexuality in males may be caused in part by genes that can increase fertility in females (1). (spiked-online.com)
  • In males and females, the classic presentation of disseminated gonococcal infection (DGI) is an arthritis-dermatitis syndrome. (medscape.com)
  • RESULTS: A total of 450 participants, 59.6% males (n=268) and 40.4% females (n=182), were included in the study. (who.int)
  • Importantly, while genes couldn't explain the differences, the relatively new mechanism of epigenetics - which can differ between twins - was the probable reason. (theconversation.com)
  • Studies on twins showed that those with this gene, a vesicular monoamine transporter that regulates the flow of mood-altering chemicals in the brain, were more likely to develop a spiritual belief. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Studies on identical twins are important as identical twins inherit the same genes. (iflscience.com)
  • Studies on twins have established that homosexuality is more common in identical (monozygotic) twins than in non-identical (dizygotic) twins. (iflscience.com)
  • Identical twins have the same genes or DNA. (wdtprs.com)
  • I suspect homosexual urges (which do also occur in animals) are rooted in one of two things: either a spontaneous gene mutation, or a chemical issue in the brain during gestation (which would not inherently affect both twins). (wdtprs.com)
  • Studies on twins in fact make it perfectly clear that there can be no genetic basis for homosexuality. (billmuehlenberg.com)
  • As one researcher in the field explains, 'Identical twins have identical genes. (billmuehlenberg.com)
  • Much has been made of the correlation between homosexual desire and certain physical anomalies: size differences in neurons in the anterior hypothalamus (LeVay), unique "tags" on the genetic code (Hamer), incidence of homosexuality among twins (Bailey and Pillard), etc. (str.org)
  • Evidence points towards the existence of a complex interaction between genes and environment, which are responsible for the heritable nature of sexual orientation. (iflscience.com)
  • Evidence from twin studies does in fact support the conclusion that heritable factors play a role in male homosexuality. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • On the face of it the prevalence of homosexuality in humans or any other species does not seem to make much evolutionary sense. (openthemagazine.com)
  • Yet, for this explanation to be the only reason for the prevalence of homosexuality would require each childless fa'afafine to contribute to the upkeep and survival of two additional nieces and nephews, as a man shares half his genes with a child of his own while sharing only a quarter of his genes with a nephew or niece. (openthemagazine.com)
  • The relationship between religion and homosexuality has varied greatly across time and place, within and between different religions and denominations, with regard to different forms of homosexuality and bisexuality. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some adherents of many religions view homosexuality and bisexuality positively, and some denominations routinely bless same-sex marriages and support LGBT rights, a growing trend as much of the developed world enacts laws supporting LGBT rights. (wikipedia.org)
  • Homosexuality is widespread, with bisexuality even more prevalent across species. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • GeekPress has linked a recent Globe article about the state of research into the elusive gay gene, indicating that environmental factors in the womb may be the answer. (ficml.org)
  • The authors came up with a complicated biological explanation for why gay men have more female relatives, tend to have older brothers and why it involves testosterone in the womb and runs in families. (theconversation.com)
  • I don't disagree that genes (and hormonal exposure in the womb) influence sexual orientation. (spiked-online.com)
  • S@dom is mentioned 48 times in the Bible and never in those 48 passages is homosexuality given as the cause of God's judgment. (gaychristian101.com)
  • Finally, White engages in a detailed analysis of those few passages that do pertain to "homosexuality" to argue that they have been broadly misinterpreted. (jacksonfreepress.com)
  • You would not know from Peterson's paraphrase that homosexuality was even specifically addressed in either of these passages. (afa.net)
  • In the United States, male homosexuals have comprised over three-fourths of all AIDS cases. (fourwinds10.com)
  • In Europe, male homosexuals comprise over 85 percent of all AIDS cases. (fourwinds10.com)
  • The homosexual man bringing the lawsuit contends that the Bible translations refer to homosexuals as sinners and only reflect an individual opinion or a group's conclusion. (probe.org)
  • realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous man, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers and mothers, for murderers and immoral men and homosexuals and enslavers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound teaching. (afa.net)
  • But homosexuals don't reproduce, so homosexuality can't be "natural" on this definition either. (str.org)
  • It is remarkable that white is one of the most studied genes in man's quest to understand genetic control and function in Drosophila (described in 1910 by Thomas Hunt Morgan as the first example of sex-linked inheritance in flies) and yet this phenomenon had not previously been reported. (nybooks.com)
  • Can Epigenetics Explain Homosexuality? (the-scientist.com)
  • Controversially, they said it wasn't due to their genes, but to small chemical signals that alter the genes (called epigenetics ) which can pass from one generation to the next, and had some (unclear) evolutionary advantage. (theconversation.com)
  • Epigenetics relates to the influence of environmental factors on genes, either in the uterus or after birth. (iflscience.com)
  • The field of epigenetics was developed after new methods were found that identify the molecular mechanisms (epi-marks) that mediate the effect of the environment on gene expression. (iflscience.com)
  • It is also evident that many currently hold to older and largely disproved explanations about the causes of homosexuality and an individual's ability to change her or his sexuality. (mormonmatters.org)
  • NYR , July 13) says, "Historians of homosexuality will judge twentieth-century 'science' harshly when they come to reflect on the prejudice, myth, and downright dishonesty that litter modern academic research on sexuality. (nybooks.com)
  • Homosexuality, or Sexuality That Can Possibly be Inherited? (nybooks.com)
  • He was quoted in the Sunday Telegraph as saying: 'If you could find the gene which determines sexuality, and a woman decides she doesn't want a homosexual child, well, let her [abort the foetus]. (spiked-online.com)
  • Genes and hormones may predispose a person to one sexuality rather than another. (spiked-online.com)
  • Because our sexuality is fixed at such an early age, many lesbians and gay men feel they have been homosexual all their lives and therefore mistakenly conclude that it must be genetic and that they were born queer. (spiked-online.com)
  • Maybe there is a 'gay gene' maybe there is a predisposition to be gay. (mormonmatters.org)
  • He seems to accept that while genetic factors may establish a predisposition towards homosexuality, a predisposition is not the same as a causation. (spiked-online.com)
  • The evidence we have at present strongly supports the proposition that there are hereditary factors in male homosexuality - the observation that an identical twin of a male homosexual has approximately a 20% likelihood of also being gay points to this conclusion, since that is 10 times the population incidence. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • For the American Indians tribes, the anatomical or genetic evidence concerning Kennewick man was irrelevant. (evostudies.org)
  • First, the empirical evidence that homosexuality is genetic is meager to non-existent. (str.org)
  • Many people have been led to believe that much evidence has been found to sustain the gay gene. (myfaithonly.com)
  • The Torah (first five books of the Hebrew Bible) is the primary source for Jewish views on homosexuality. (wikipedia.org)
  • For 1800 years after the events in S@dom, Jewish prophets in the Bible and Jewish authors outside the Bible, understood that the issue was Inhospitality , not homosexuality. (gaychristian101.com)
  • Although he too believes all gay relationships are sinful, on page 71 of his book, Dr. Gagnon tells us, The S@dom story in Genesis 19 "is usually viewed by modern Christians as the classic Bible story about homosexuality. (gaychristian101.com)
  • One example of this is the man who sued two Christian publishers for emotional distress and mental instability because of their Bible translations. (probe.org)
  • As I point out in my book A Biblical Point of View on Homosexuality , various denominations and gay theologians have been trying to rewrite the Bible concerning homosexuality. (probe.org)
  • In a recent interview , Eugene Peterson, a former pastor and author best known for his paraphrase of the Bible The Message , came out in support of gay "marriage," saying he would marry a gay couple if he were still pastoring and that, in the churches he's pastored, "I don't think we ever made a big deal about it. (answersingenesis.org)
  • A study which is not even yet a paper was presented in preliminary form on Valentine's Day by sex researcher Mike Bailey at a conference in Chicago saying that there is a genetic component to homosexuality. (theconversation.com)
  • The Bailey paper claims to have found large segments of chromosomes containing hundreds of genes that are common in gay men. (theconversation.com)
  • This latest round of reporting following the Bailey research has led to perhaps inevitable criticism that we have an obsession with male homosexuality. (theconversation.com)
  • While genetic research has yielded accurate genetic tests for some single-gene conditions (for example Huntington's disease, Duchenne's muscular dystrophy), research continues into a wide range of multifactorial conditions (for example heart disease, diabetes, and behavioural traits) that will be explained only partially by the isolation of a gene or group of genes. (bmj.com)
  • And there is no single gene for any of these traits. (theconversation.com)
  • In his notebooks, he described their sexual behaviour, including sex between male birds. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Scientists argued homosexuality was a sort of 'Darwinian paradox' because it involved sexual behaviour that was non-reproductive. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • It doesn't really matter what organism, at the end of the day it's all about how genes have evolved either to produce a species or a new behaviour. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Female homosexuality has been well studied in Japanese macaques, but Clive's research would examine how homosexual behaviour differs in males and across environments. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Although no genetic tests for violent behaviour are currently available, research is ongoing to isolate genes related to a propensity for violence. (bmj.com)
  • Fa'afafine are marked by effeminate behaviour and their choice of adult men as partners. (openthemagazine.com)
  • We found that the runaway expression of a single gene, white , which we used as a "utility tool" in our experiments, induces homosexual courtship among mature males. (nybooks.com)
  • Among the religious denominations which generally reject these orientations, there are many different types of opposition, ranging from quietly discouraging homosexual activity, explicitly forbidding same-sex sexual practices among their adherents and actively opposing social acceptance of homosexuality, supporting criminal sanctions up to capital punishment, and even to condoning extrajudicial killings. (wikipedia.org)
  • Today some denominations within these religions are accepting of homosexuality and inclusive of homosexual people, such as Reform Judaism, the United Church of Christ and the Metropolitan Community Church. (wikipedia.org)
  • Members of Soulforce, who sang church hymns and cited scripture throughout their protest, passed out pamphlets arguing that Christianity is compatible with homosexuality. (jacksonfreepress.com)
  • Why not an essay asking: "What The Hell Are Those 'Male Typical' and 'Female Typical' Behaviors and Feelings That LeVay talks About? (nybooks.com)
  • With the renewed conversation in Mormonism about homosexuality initiated by the November 6th policy changes, it has become clear that many Latter-day Saints have never really been exposed to the breadth of research conducted in the past several decades about the biological and social factors involved in human sexual development, attraction, and identity, including homosexual orientations. (mormonmatters.org)
  • There is a major problem with gay gene theory, and with all theories that posit the biological programming of sexual orientation. (spiked-online.com)
  • If homosexuality was a biological condition produced inescapably by the genes (e.g. eye color), then if one identical twin was homosexual, in 100% of the cases his brother would be too. (billmuehlenberg.com)
  • Is There A Biological Component To Homosexuality? (myfaithonly.com)
  • The largest study yet of the genetic roots of homosexuality links sexual preference in men to two regions of the genome. (the-scientist.com)
  • NYR , July 13) of the paper which Dr. Shang-Ding Zhang and I published concerning the white gene's effect on fruit fly sexual behavior ("Misexpression of the white ( w ) gene triggers male-male courtship in Drosophila," Proceeding of National Academy of Sciences , USA, Vol. 92 (June 6, 1995), pp. 5525-5529). (nybooks.com)
  • The Associated Press on Tuesday reported that Saudi authorities arrested the man for "sexual deviation. (washingtonblade.com)
  • La llamada de conciliar con el delito de anomalía sexual ((homosexualidad)) que se está promoviendo hoy en todo el mundo es uno de los ejemplos feos del trastorno de la mente cuando se aleja de las leyes Todopoderoso creador, estas mentes que se encuentran sin vergüenza en la falsificación la ciencia experimental para normalizar y subestimar este horrible acto. (muslimprophets.com)
  • According to gay gene theory, genetic factors are responsible for sexual orientation, with our genetic inheritance programming us to desire one sex rather than the other. (spiked-online.com)
  • Contributors review multiple examples of sexual antagonism (e.g., parental care and mating rate), its genetic basis, the various and sometimes dramatic ways that it is manifested (e.g., infanticide and copulatory wounding), and its evolutionary impacts, especially on male-female coevolution and reproductive isolation. (cshlpress.com)
  • It may also arise in hypersexual men who have low thresholds for sexual excitement, i.e., who are turned on by anyone or anything that remotely resembles a woman. (blogspot.com)
  • There is no scientific basis for viewing homosexuality as anything other than an acquired sexual dysfunction. (myfaithonly.com)
  • Sexual behavior in the human male / Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin. (who.int)
  • Science has repeatedly shown that there is no "gay gene" (i.e., genetic basis for someone being homosexual), nor is there a transgender gene. (patriotpost.us)
  • Dr. Collins succinctly reviewed the research on homosexuality and offers the following: "An area of particularly strong public interest is the genetic basis of homosexuality. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • Some Sumerian proverbs seem to suggest that gala had a reputation for engaging in anal sex with men. (wikipedia.org)
  • Along with anal fissure and syphilitic chancre, mucosal ulceration of the rectal area is common in homosexual males. (fourwinds10.com)
  • The virus can be transmitted by unprotected anal sex between men, according to a CDC report. (the-scientist.com)
  • One reason people react so violently to these studies is a lack of understanding of basic biology and science, and realising that homosexuality is for a scientist just another human characteristic or trait, like sporting ability, obesity, optimism or depression. (theconversation.com)
  • We have around 20,000 genes (about the same as worms) and thousands of genes influence each behavioural trait to tiny extents. (theconversation.com)
  • Different human populations are very closely related to each other, reflecting both recent separation of those populations and long term flow of genes across populations that believe falsely themselves to be separate. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Finally, if the chimerism theory is true, exclusive homosexuality should be more common in populations with a higher incidence of twinning, such as sub-Saharan Africans. (blogspot.com)
  • Regardless of their position on homosexuality, many people of faith look to both sacred texts and tradition for guidance on this issue. (wikipedia.org)
  • But now evolutionary psychologists Paul Vasey and Doug VanderLaan, from the University of Lethbridge (Canada), have suggested, based on several years of work in the Pacific island of Samoa, that one of the possible ways in which homosexuality is inherited and retained in humans could be through the extra care lavished by homosexual men on their nephews and nieces in early human society. (openthemagazine.com)
  • As Dr. Collins would agree, environment can influence gene expression, and free will determines the response to whatever predispositions might be present. (wthrockmorton.com)
  • Scientists propose a new model for how homosexuality develops, but observers say it will be difficult to test. (the-scientist.com)
  • Some fear that the isolation of a "gay gene" (or genes) could lead to selection against foetuses carrying it, while some scientists question whether time and effort would not be better spent elsewhere. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • Nevertheless, scientists said the work suggests that one or several genes located on the bottom half of the sausage-shaped X chromosome may play a role in predisposing some men toward homosexuality. (myfaithonly.com)
  • Attitudes toward homosexuality have been found to be determined not only by personal religious beliefs, but by the interaction of those beliefs with the predominant national religious context-even for people who are less religious or who do not share their local dominant religious context. (wikipedia.org)
  • The last remaining copy was recently unearthed providing valuable insights into animal homosexuality research. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • But forays into animal homosexuality research long predate Levick, with observations published as far back as the 1700s and 1800s. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • In 1965, Jacobs et al reported findings from their research into residents of a Scottish mental hospital that an increased number of "mentally sub-normal male patients with dangerous, violent, or criminal propensities" possessed an extra Y chromosome. (bmj.com)
  • His findings were criticised last night by leading clerics, who challenge the existence of a "god gene" and say that the research undermines a fundamental tenet of faith - that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through divine transformation rather than the brain's electrical impulses. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • The Wall Street Journal also announced "Research Points Toward a Gay Gene. (myfaithonly.com)
  • What Vasey and VanderLaan have now found in research published in the journal Psychological Science is that the link between how fa'afafine treat their nephews and nieces and how they treat kids in general, is actually weaker than in men and women. (openthemagazine.com)
  • As a man who "chooses" to love other men for rational reasons, I predict that history will soon be talking about LeVay and Hamer as "the Kato Kaelins of Science. (nybooks.com)
  • Written before the discovery of HTLV-III/LAV as the AIDS agent, a national case study found: 'Blood from rectal mucosal lesions which are known to be common in homosexual males who engage in rectal intercourse, could contain the infectious agent responsible for this epidemic. (fourwinds10.com)
  • Greg also argues that male homosexuality should be less common in smaller communities than in larger ones-where pathogenic transmission is likelier. (blogspot.com)
  • Is exclusive homosexuality likewise 3 to 5 times more common in Nigeria? (blogspot.com)
  • In one Akkadian hymn, Ishtar is described as transforming men into women. (wikipedia.org)
  • We fool ourselves into thinking that since there is the same number of men and women. (scienceblogs.com)
  • So if two men or two women are that way, just leave them alone. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • He's not too bad on Romans 1:26-27, although there he slyly leaves open the possibility that homosexuality is okay if it is a matter of "love" rather than "lust:" "Refusing to know God, they soon didn't know how to be human either-women didn't know how to be women, men didn't know how to be men. (afa.net)
  • And, biologically, it is clear that men and women are made for procreation. (patriotpost.us)
  • These two stories prove how women do not always have to fall for whichever man shows interest in them, that they are human and when they have the choice, they choose what they want and what is best for them in the long run. (scienceleadership.org)
  • If an identical twin has same-sex attraction the chances the co-twin has it are only about 11% for men and 14% for women. (wdtprs.com)
  • It may arise simply because access to women is limited (as in prisons or in polygynous societies where older men monopolize the pool of fertile women). (blogspot.com)
  • This was the default diagnosis for anyone exhibiting any "symptoms" or "signs" that might at least remotely relate to the nervous system: headaches, deafness, psychosis, anxiety, homosexuality, and even women acting independently in matters of politics and religion. (medscape.com)
  • Dr Hamer, who in 1993 claimed to have identified a DNA sequence linked to male homosexuality, said the existence of the "god gene" explained why some people had more aptitude for spirituality than others. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • He pointed out: "Religious believers can point to the existence of god genes as one more sign of the creator's ingenuity - a clever way to help humans acknowledge and embrace a divine presence. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • A few years ago, Dr James Watson, the Nobel Prize winner who co-discovered DNA, reopened the controversy over the so-called gay gene when he defended a woman's right to abortion. (spiked-online.com)
  • The pamphlet, which listed Soulforce founder Rev. Mel White as author, points out that neither Jesus nor the Jewish prophets had anything to say about homosexuality, and "only six or seven of the Bible's one million verses refer to same sex-behavior in any way. (jacksonfreepress.com)
  • Did Jesus preach Gay Sex as Sinful (Homosexuality)? (muslimprophets.com)
  • Such stories reflect a mindset that regards the rape of men by other men as abhorrent, but with regard to current questions concerning homosexuality, these texts have little to offer. (gaychristian101.com)
  • Still of note, Peterson, who identifies as a Presbyterian, did not back up his original statements about gay "marriage" and homosexuality with Scripture or some new insight from God's Word that everyone else had missed for 2,000 years. (answersingenesis.org)
  • Eugene Peterson is famous for his (very) loose paraphrase of the New Testament, The Message, first published in 1993. (afa.net)
  • The original New Testament version of the The Message was published in 1993 so it appears, to this observer at least, that Rev. Peterson has been compromised on the subject of homosexuality for a long time. (afa.net)
  • Men who became gala sometimes adopted female names and their songs were composed in the Sumerian eme-sal dialect, which, in literary texts, is normally reserved for the speech of female characters. (wikipedia.org)
  • In fact, recently, carers discovered that the partner of the world's oldest animal, a 186-year-old tortoise, was a male, not female as they had previously assumed. (cosmosmagazine.com)
  • X and Y are not female and male. (shroomery.org)
  • show significant and varying shifts in residence patterns, with both male and female dispersal to other groups. (anthropologyinpractice.com)
  • For example, several unaffiliated males between groups linked via the same female could experience decreased hostilities, open cross group visitation, and overall increased interaction between unrelated parties. (anthropologyinpractice.com)
  • Steve Sailer has entered this debate with a post on the chimerism theory , i.e., the idea that male homosexuality arises when a male fetus absorbs cells from a female twin that has died during early fetal development. (blogspot.com)
  • For one thing, to keep the male brain from masculinizing during prenatal or neonatal development, it isn't enough to have a 'female cell' somewhere in the male body. (blogspot.com)
  • Nevertheless, many a pope had fathered children and did know what to do with his male and female servants. (ipce.info)
  • The higher their score, the greater a person's ability to believe in a greater spiritual force and, Dr Hamer found, the more likely they were to share the gene, VMAT2. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • For example, some American Indians of the Northwest claimed that they should have sovereignty over the remains of the Kennewick man fossil under the assumption that because the bones were found in territory that their tribe once inhabited, that the remains had to be one of their tribal ancestors 1 . (evostudies.org)
  • These types of announcements catch the uninformed reader off guard and leave the impression that a gay gene has been found. (myfaithonly.com)
  • One was performed by Simon LeVay, whose study claimed to have found a difference in hypothalamic structure between heterosexual and homosexual men. (myfaithonly.com)
  • 2 In 1974, Dr Stanley Walzer at Harvard had begun to screen newborn males for XYY as part of a prospective long term study to describe the physical and mental development of a large number of these boys in an unselected population. (bmj.com)
  • And this something cannot be a recent environmental change, since male homosexuality has been around for a long time. (blogspot.com)
  • Not very long after, National Public Radio sounded loudly those findings, and Newsweek ran the cover story, "Gay Gene? (myfaithonly.com)
  • it took more than 34,000 people and 20 labs to find one little gene variant that influenced 0.1% of blood pressure - wow. (theconversation.com)
  • When a man wearing legwear passes by, people on the street are usually not aware for several reasons. (nylongene.com)
  • People are generally too wrapped up in their own schedules and activities to pay that much attention, and besides that they are not attuned to even look for legwear on men because they've not yet heard of it. (nylongene.com)
  • Genes are responsible for an indirect influence, but on average, they do not force people into homosexuality. (billmuehlenberg.com)
  • Gene Robinson confronts those who use religion as an instrument of oppression, and claims a place in the church and society, not just for LGBT people, but for all. (dove.org)
  • There are not many people who take middle ground when it comes to the debate on homosexuality and its place in the church. (dove.org)
  • From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people. (myfaithonly.com)
  • We can deduce a few things about the hypothetical agent causing homosexuality. (blogspot.com)
  • Sinners of all forms-drunkards, depression, homosexuality-are all things we suffer from because of our sin nature and because of our brokenness. (jacksonfreepress.com)
  • The predominant things that create homosexuality in one identical twin and not in the other have to be post-birth factors. (wdtprs.com)
  • Today's guest, Siddhartha Mukherjee, has written a best-selling book called "Gene," which is now out in paperback. (wkar.org)
  • Tim Spector is the author of the book Identically Different - Why you can change your genes. (theconversation.com)
  • His findings, published in a book, The God Gene: How Faith Is Hard-Wired Into Our Genes, were greeted sceptically by many in the religious establishment. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • In my book I suggest that the problems began when man became self-conscious and had to adapt to the strange new condition of having thoughts, emotions, and impulses. (blogspot.com)