This assertion was first reinforced when the American Psychiatric Association "declassified" homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973 (despite a majority opposition). Those who maintain that homosexuality is biologically determined generally point to research by Dean Hamer published in a Science magazine article suggesting that a region of the X chromosome was involved in male sexual orientation in some individuals.

Indeed, many homosexual activists continue to claim that homosexuals are born gay. What they fail to admit, however, is that homosexual activists literally terrorized the APA into removing homosexuality as a disorder. Homosexual scientist Simon LeVay admits this. He notes: "Gay activism was clearly the force that propelled the APA to declassify homosexuality."

Homosexuality may no longer be regarded as a mental illness, but is is still entirely unnatural, it is unnatural because it goes against nature's norm (not because it does not occur in nature!). Nature exists whether we like it or not. And in nature, procreation is the single relentless rule. That is the norm. Our sexual bodies were designed for reproduction. Hence, no one is born gay. The idea is ridiculous. Homosexuality is an adaptation, not an inborn trait.

Simon LeVay, in his study of the hypothalamic differences between the brains of homosexual and heterosexual men, offered the following criticisms of his own research: "It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain."

An excerpt from "THE GAY GENE: GOING, GOING … GONE" by Yvette C. Schneider, Family Research Council:

** "Many misconceptions exist about the supposedly inborn nature of complex behaviors such as homosexuality. Most of these are due to media reports that present scientific studies in selective sound bites.

In reality, no scientific studies show an inborn cause for any such complex behaviors. In this day of shirking responsibility and blaming anything but ourselves for our actions (e.g., I spilled coffee and burned myself, but it was the restaurant’s fault for serving hot coffee), claims that someone is genetically or chemically structured to engage in dangerous or antisocial activities find increasing appeal...

When the question of the origin of homosexuality arises, homosexual activists tend to resort to the often-heard refrain "I was born gay." There are even T-shirts sold at homosexual functions and bookstores that say, "Hey Mom, Thanks for the Genes." The idea that homosexuality is a predetermined condition that originates in the womb also has been increasingly embraced by society as a whole. A February 2000 Harris Poll of 1,010 randomly selected adults found that the number of people who believe "sexual orientation" "is more dependent on the genes you are born with" has increased 6 percent since 1995. Thirty-five percent of the people polled believe that homosexuality is "genetic," versus 29 percent who held that opinion in 1995. Fifty-two percent believe that "what you learn and experience" causes homosexuality, as opposed to 65 percent who believed that in 1995...

In the March 1993 edition of the Archives of General Psychiatry (AGP), Drs. William Byne and Bruce Parsons examined past and current claims and concluded that "there is no evidence at present to substantiate a biologic theory. The appeal of current biologic explanations for sexual orientation may derive more from dissatisfaction with the present status of psychosocial explanations than from a substantiating body of experimental data."...

Science published an article in 1994 that included the following statement:

Time and time again, scientists have claimed that particular genes or chromosomal regions are associated with behavioral traits, only to withdraw their findings when they were not replicated. ‘Unfortunately,’ says Yale’s [Dr. Joel] Gelernter, ‘it’s hard to come up with many’ findings linking specific genes to complex human behaviors that have been replicated. ‘All were announced with great fanfare; all were greeted unskeptically in the popular press; all are now in disrepute."...

There is increasing debate among homosexual activists as to whether or not they should even be advocating the idea that homosexuality is genetic. It was once thought to be politically expedient to say, "I can’t help my attractions. I was born this way." Stein told the Advocate.

Many gay people want to use this research to promote gay rights. If gay people are ‘born that way,’ then discrimination against them must be wrong. … A gay or lesbian person’s public identity, sexual behaviors, romantic relationships, or decisions to raise children are all choices. No theory suggests that these choices are genetic.

Not only is the scientific research that tries to prove an inborn nature to homosexuality questionable, but the researchers also fail to take into account the existence of thousands of former homosexuals. If homosexuality were biologically determined, it would seem impossible for homosexuals to become heterosexual...

Scientists have not even come close to proving a genetic or biological cause for homosexuality, yet homosexual activists continue to say that sexual activity between members of the same sex is "just the same" as race or gender. Using "biology" as a stamp of legitimacy, activists have pushed for special rights, from sex-partner subsidies to "gay marriage" to adoption. Without scientific evidence to support such claims, it is wrong and dangerously misleading to say that people are born homosexual and cannot change.

Yvette C. Schneider, a former lesbian who is now married, is a policy analyst in the cultural studies department at Family Research Council." **

Conclusion:

The very idea that individuals are born gay only serves to lock homosexuals into a psychophobic nightmare where they are metaphoricaly torn appart by any thoughts that question whether they were infact born gay, or indeed whether they can change their sexuality. Naturally, any such thoughts are instinctively forced to become suppressed because of widely held assumptions, such as the notion that suggests for homosexuals to think anything other than the misguided belief that they are born gay would paradoxicaly mean they are self-haters, or they are denying themselves their genetic destinies.

Thus, the theory that homosexuals are born gay is not only wrong, it is most certainly counter-productive, and may even lead homosexuals to further delusions about themselves and the world they live in.


Related:  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/06/292615.html