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To: combjelly who wrote (207031)	10/16/2004 10:46:05 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571978

>> I've never met anyone who was homosexual and didn't know it from an early age. Your experience is different. It is. However, I've known many more homosexuals who developed obvious characteristics at an early age. Even in these instances, it is unclear to me the cause. As an example (unrelated to my previous anecdote), a family friend had a son who, at the age of maybe 7, was enrolled in dance lessons (this was in the early 70s), and shortly thereafter began to exhibit characteristics we associate with homosexual boys. Was he born homosexual? Or was his placement into this predominantly female role (there WERE other males enrolled in dance at the time, and to my knowledge he is the only one who began to exhibit these characteristics) responsible for the apparent change? I don't know. I do know that this individual became an apparent homosexual at that time, and until his tragic murder was openly homosexual. Coincidence? I just don't know. There is certainly nothing scientific to suggest that he was "born" homosexual. The point is, Bush had the correct answer in the debate -- we simply do not know whether homosexuality is genetic, learned, or [most likely] a combination of the two. Kerry's inference that homosexuality is not learned, was clearly incorrect. I might add that I noticed several news accounts (mostly CNN, I think) that suggested that Kerry was right and Bush was wrong (in one case, he was accused of having "dodged" the question, when in fact he answered correctly, i.e., "I don't know"). Typical liberal news bias.