Ted, And why is that?
Because it's ultimately dehumanizing.
It is? How can be when its part of the human condition?
This isn't about believing that the sun revolves around the earth. It's about who we are as a human race, and whether we have any free will at all, or whether we'll forever be a slave to genetics and Nietzsche's uber-man.
The genome is just one of several factors that determine who we are. There are geniuses that end up homeless. There are people who should have been dead by 11 who go on to be great athletes. Genome is not the ultimate determinant of who we are but rather its sets the stage.
And if you believe in God this is where his genius and his glory can be found, and not the ten commandments. The fact that little molecules on DNA strips know when to fire and create a finger or a foot is truly the miracle of life; that one seemingly insignificant adjustment will make one person with brown hair while another with blond hair, or one person white and another Asian. Its in a word....extraordinary........and rather than dehumanizing us......it diefies us. After all, we are supposed to be made in his image.
I see........you remember growing up and reaching a point where you said to yourself.......I can be straight or gay. Which do I want to be?
I remember growing up trying to be strong and athletic, but realizing that I just don't have the natural ability. But that doesn't mean I shouldn't continue to stay physically fit. The latter is my choice; the former is my genetics.
Being strong and athletic is not the issue. Did you realize at some point that you had a choice to be either hetero or homo? I didn't have that choice and I am trying to find out if I got shortchanged and that others were given choices......gay, straight, bi.
Same thing with sexuality. I don't think the gay gene is as "black-n-white" as you make it out to be. Nor is the choice to be straight or gay as clear cut as you portray it for argument. In fact, for many homosexuals, they've started out hetero, then decided later on to give into their homo desires. Some even flip back-n-forth with the wind. Look at Anne Heche.
Heche is disturbed. She says she talks to aliens.....do you believe that too?
I have known guys who are gay but get married and have kids and then end up coming out. However, I have never known a guy who was straight and chose to be gay.......got a gay partner and lived in the gay community. I have known a couple of straight women who have had a short term sexual relationship with another woman but under very special circumstances. And I know that some guys have gay sex in jail but claim that they are straight and revert back to type upon their release.
But under normal circumstances, I have never seen a straight guy try to pass as gay! Have you?
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