03-08-2004, 07:01 PM
I can see choosing to have sex with people of the same gender, but you can't choose your sexual attractions. Basically: You can't choose to be homosexual, but you can choose to lead an "alternate lifestyle". Can you suddenly decide you're going to rebel and develop a fetish for shoe laces? (nothing in the scriptures about that, so feel free to try. hey, it's not like you have to stay that way)
Environment does play a part in human development, but sexual attraction comes with puberty, which is biologically brought on. A small change in one gene could produce a slightly different hormone which would cause a different effect on the brain. Because of the complex nature of the brain, it could take hundreds of small alterations in protein strands to create homosexuality. That means it would take thousands of per-nucleotide gene mappings to find anything even remotely conclusive. It's not like DNA is devoid of garbage codons; the sought after variations can be overlooked as easily as a couple words in a three-acre word search. Just because a couple studies came up empty handed doesn't mark the results concrete dogma foundation.
Environment does play a part in human development, but sexual attraction comes with puberty, which is biologically brought on. A small change in one gene could produce a slightly different hormone which would cause a different effect on the brain. Because of the complex nature of the brain, it could take hundreds of small alterations in protein strands to create homosexuality. That means it would take thousands of per-nucleotide gene mappings to find anything even remotely conclusive. It's not like DNA is devoid of garbage codons; the sought after variations can be overlooked as easily as a couple words in a three-acre word search. Just because a couple studies came up empty handed doesn't mark the results concrete dogma foundation.