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- From: tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins)
- Subject: Re: Homosexual Rights
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.133127.10553@b8.b8.ingr.com>
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- Organization: The Ernest P. Worrell Institute for the Study of the Vernal Equinox
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:31:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.203209.21057@infonode.ingr.com>, kenney@tribe.b17d.ingr.com (David Kenney) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov17.173534.5906@b8.b8.ingr.com>, tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com (T.J. Higgins) writes:
- |> |> There is growing scientific evidence that homosexuality has a
- |> |> biological basis; i.e. they really are born that way.
- |>
- |> I don't wish to speak for or against this point right now, just that
- |> I don't understand it. Maybe my understanding of genetics is flawed.
- |> Anyway, if we assume people that are genetically predisposed to
- |> homosexuality have even slightly less children than people genetically
- |> predisposed to heterosexuality, wouldn't the "homosexual genes" disappear
- |> after a few thousand years at most? Yet, I have heard claims that the
- |> percentage of homosexuals have remained fairly constant throughout history.
- |>
- |> Or are these supposed "biological" factors non-genetic, like maybe tempature
- |> of the mother's womb or something?
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- From what I have read, no one yet knows the source of the condition.
- Could be viral, bacterial, genetic, or environmental. I hesitate to
- use the term "cause," as that implies that some sort of corrective
- measures can be taken to reverse the condition.
- --
- T.J. Higgins | tj@alpine.b17a.ingr.com | Intergraph Mapping | Huntsville, AL
- "Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made."
- -- Otto von Bismarck
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