For Griffen Re: Gay gene argument

[beandelphiki]

Dude, you so seriously disappointed me. You know those remove/screen/ban options? I seriously considered all of them. You know, the thing between me and the other guy has been resolved, and it was unnecessary for you to bust a nut charging in there. And it was REALLY unnecessary for you to scatter rude comments about lj. (I get them by email, thanks.) When I admit openly that I was a jerk, and I RESPECTFULLY ask for people's opinion, to come and be rude is so uncool I don't have words for it.

Here are your comments answered:

1) Firstly, I was aware when I cited that article that it was probably not the best. But what that article concluded WAS the reason for homosexuality, or where it came from is beside the point. You MISSED the entire fucking point of my citing that article.

Griffen, if you find someone who tells you there is such a thing as a "gay gene" or that homosexuality is entirely genetic, they are from a fringe group. From where I stand, the scientific community seems to agree that is B.S.

2) Nice conspiracy theory! "Oh, they haven't found a gay gene because the funding was pulled!" So tell me, WHEN did they pull funding? Was this before or after years and years of digging?

Scientists, whatever their motivation (and some admittedly have not had the best motivation) have long been fanatically interested in the cause of homosexuality. And for every scientist who throws his bias into the research, there is another one who throws his bias the other way.

What findings there have been about genetics indicate that genetics ARE NOT THE ONLY FACTOR, only one of many possible factors. And genetics appears so far to have only a limited effect.

If I were in control of the funding, believe me, by this point, I would have pulled it, too. It looks like a waste of money. But, HEY! If you want to continue believing it's all in the genes, despite the consensus of the scientific community (and the national gay magazines I read certainly seem to listen to it) then go ahead and make your own research company, and spend your OWN money researching the gay gene! Go bananas! I won't say shit!

3) It's very cool that everyone down to your second cousin on your mother's side is gay, but how the hell does that explain people like ME, who are the only ones in their family?

I guess you don't quite get the science involved here, but I see you don't realize that you just argued for an environmental factor, and not a genetic one.

Checked your drinking water lately?