“A California lawsuit which is now headed to the U.S. Supreme Court would make the use of the words “natural family,” “marriage” and “union of a man and a woman” a “hate speech” crime in government workplaces. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has already ruled in favor of the plaintiffs.

CNN and The Washington Post both reported that General Peter Pace, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, was fired because of his publicly expressed moral opposition to homosexual behavior.

A bill now before Congress (H.R. 1592 / S. 1105) would criminalize negative comments concerning homosexuality, such as calling the practice of homosexuality a sin from the pulpit, a “hate crime” punishable by a hefty fine and time in prison. This dangerous legislation would take away our freedom of speech and our freedom of religion.

Snopes lists all three as false.”

The Toronto Star is a fun paper…a great feel-good article that is quite related to same-sex attraction that they recently published?

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/226074

There isn’t going to be a single gene, or gene cluster that causes homosexuality, but there are probably dozens that create susceptability. What if these genes have nothing to do with sexuality at all?

Let’s look at deafness. Aproximately 1 in 1500 kids is born deaf due to heritable genetics and the Connexin-26 gene mutation is the most common cause. Here is how it works.

“The hearing loss happens because the mutation is suspected of disrupting potassium flow in the inner ear.”

Do gay gene advocates hope to discover an allele that causes something mundane like a reduction in Potassium flow during prenatal development? I get the feeling that most in the public think a gay gene is an allele that encodes for gay feelings and the gay experience. How will the public and the gay community react when it is announced that the gay gene has been found and it is a prenatal Potassium regulator?

(Sidebar on deaf genes: How did the mutation get as common as 1 in 1,500 when it should be 1 in 10,000 or less? Deaf people tend to marry and reproduce with each other.)

Reason #1

A 20% monozygotic concordence rate indicates massive environmental input

Reason #2

A gene that spreads a common form of infertility? What the heck? Somebody do that math on that one and see how fast it spreads in a population.

Lynn David, I think we are just gonna have to disagree on this one. 😎