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Tuesday April 6, 2004
Is Homosexuality Genetic? Science Says Not
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WASHINGTON, April 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com/cwfa.org) - An analysis published by Concerned Women for America suggests that homosexuality is not genetically determined, as media and activist groups often portray it.
The article, Born Or Bred? Science Does Not Support the Claim That Homosexuality Is Genetic, counters the idea that homosexuality is "inborn." The author, Robert Knight, writes that "A handful of studies, none of them replicated and all exposed as methodologically unsound or misrepresented, have linked sexual orientation to everything from differences in portions of the brain, to genes, finger length, inner ear differences, eye-blinking, and 'neuro-hormonal differentiation.'"
Knight cites Columbia University Professor of Psychiatry Dr. Robert Spitzer, who was instrumental in removing homosexuality in 1973 from the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental disorders, who also said that individuals can alter their "sexual orientation." Spitzer's conclusions were the result of interviewing over 200 people, who, as a result of counseling, had diminished or eliminated their same-sex attractions.
"Immutability is a central tenet of demands for 'gay rights' and 'gay marriage,'" Knight contends. "The sheer number of exceptions to the 'born gay' theory should be a warning to researchers and media to proceed with caution before declaring that science has 'proved' that homosexuality is genetic."
Read the CWA (PDF) report at: http://www.cwfa.org/images/content/bornorbred.pdf
Also read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage, "'Gay Gene' Disproven Again," at: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/1999/apr/99042302.html
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