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Originally posted by Rettick:
I didn't know this, but I find it EXTREMELY hard to believe. . . . I find the suggestion that homosexuality is caused by some kind of chemical defect to be quite insulting, and if it is 'proven' right, I forsee dire consequences for Gay Rights...
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Rettick, (
not rhetorical question): would you find this chemical imbalance explanation less insulting if it was referred to as an "anomaly" rather than a "defect"? I'm having trouble understanding why it would be any more pejorative than a chemical imbalance that would give one a predisposition for getting cancer or some other disease or condition. I'm just interested in how you are thinking about that.
Regarding the effect of this sort of explanation for homosexuality on gay rights, I think the best hope for gay rights is a scientific confirmation that you are born with your sexuality and it is not something you choose, as in such a case one cannot be accused of making a "deviant" (not my word) lifestyle choice. If you are born gay, which is to say if you are among the Christian right, if God made you gay, it becomes a rather un-Christian act to discriminate against or otherwise persecute someone for being gay.