Yes, but those people see homosexuality as a perversion, not a biological predisposition, so they don't want gay people to be parents because they are afraid the kids will have a higher liklihood of becoming gay themselves. This review identifies biological, genetic, and environmental factors influencing homosexuality, exploring X-linkage theory, fraternal birth order, and epigenetics while advocating for integrated research to advance understanding and societal acceptance.
New research confirms that a mix of prenatal factors and genetic differences could explain human sexual orientation. Homosexuality has been a constant throughout human evolution and civilization, and yet, science has been slow to look at the causes of sexual preferences. Same-sex sexual behavior may seem to present a Darwinian paradox.
It provides no obvious reproductive or survival benefit, and yet same-sex sexual behavior is fairly common — around % of individuals in diverse human societies — and is clearly influenced by genes. Neither does it follow that homosexuals should be granted rights on the basis of their biology. Women, racial minorities, and gay people are entitled to freedom from discrimination not because of their biology, but because of our idealistic conception of the dignity of the individual.
See B. If I know I have an addictive personality probably the best thing for me to do is not go down to Las Vegas to gamble even if it was only for fun or just to go on vacation. Also there is some evidence that some homosexuality is the result of intrauterine hormonal influences. The handedness analogy is applicable here. That is why I got worked up. First, LeVay compared the brain structures of 19 homosexual men with the brain structures of 16 men whom he presumed were heterosexual.
In fact, subjects reported that it took, on average, a full two years before they noticed a change in sexual feelings. This item digitally provided courtesy of CatholicCulture. Is There a Human Gay Gene? Even in the case of the extremely at risk person who seeming became an alcoholic upon the first taste of his first drink, alcoholism occurs via a process of habituation: one becomes what one does.
This is not an opinion, but a fact that is part of my personal experience. They have prayed repeatedly—often for many years—that God will deliver them from their same-sex desires. The key is the word function. Gay people need love, but affirming their decision to engage in gay sex is not love. Continue reading. Some have asked God to let them die or have actually attempted suicide.
As such, there is actually a fair bit of overlap in the habitualization of alcoholism and of sexual preference.
However I think you need to reconsider your reasons. And how do we know when drinking is excessive? Browse Issue Subscribe. Just as heterosexual children are given the tools to learn how to be heterosexual so gay kids need this too. However, when they engage in homosexual activity, they confirm within themselves a disordered sexual inclination that is essentially self-indulgent.
Virtually everyone further agrees that sexual orientation is more resistant to change.
Seen within the context of the Church's vision of authentic human sexuality, homosexual activity is immoral because it is contrary to the creative wisdom of God and as such is unnatural. Second, three independent studies published in the past four years have also shown that homosexual and bisexual men and women are at greater risk of suicide and overall mental health problems than their heterosexual counterparts.
Bailey et al. I recomend the book Thirst by James Nelson.
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