Homosexual Gene

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is known, and who�s function we do understand.
Now scientists are attempting to find proof if the infamous �gay gene�. For years, the gay community has been trying to prove that they were �born gay� and that their lifestyle was not choice. The news media has a ridiculous double standard for the trait "sexual orientation" and every other trait. ABC's science journalist David Marash reported on Nightline that a gay gene "suggests that homosexuality may not be a choice." Marash is suggesting that unless we locate a gene for homosexuality, homosexuality is a choice (or, at a minimum, that we cannot know whether it is chosen or not). This is the equivalent of saying that since we have not found the gene that governs left-handedness (and we have not) left-handedness is a choice (or, at a minimum, we cannot determine if it is). Scientists know you don t need to look at a gene to determine if a trait is chosen; you need to look at the trait. Moreover, we have looked, at both of them. ...

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