Archivedyout sites persecutionThis sounds a whole lot like Dean Hamer’s comments: As to what causes homosexuality, if I could answer that question definitively I could save a lot of people a lot of heartache and I don’t mean just those with the orientation. Each individual is just that, an individual, so the reasons for their orientation must be addressed on an individual basis. For Christian’s this means transformation of their sexuality or self acceptance of this and a life of celibacy. All of my ex-gay friends have identified environmental causes that combined with their personalities (how the receive, react to, or perceive their environment) have been able to control their desires or totally change them. However, not all “ex-gay” Christian’s can identify any definitive cause and choose to live a celibate life in obedience to God’s revealed will. This is an online presence of such people: God’s Love – Our Witness. Back to the article you posted, one reason Hamer’s research came under attack and scrutiny by his peers was the lack of a control group and the way he limited his research universe. In “A Second Creation” Hamer is quoted as stating he purposely limited his research universe to gay brothers with a gay uncle on their mother’s side of the family and did not research their straight brothers, fathers, etc. His reason for this – cost of DNA testing. Hamer’s goal was to find a genetic marker in gay men and he found a marker in 80% of gay men in his research universe, however, this is not a conclusive genetic link since he cannot show that straight men don’t have the marker. What Hamer and geneticists cannot answer is if the genetic link is to a personality type that could lead to a sexual dysfunction. Now my use of “dysfunction” is not intended to be insulting, it is a term used by mental health professionals. Transgendered people have other issues. Men who feel they are women trapped in a male body may be “wired wrong”. However, I find it interesting that a large percentage of men who have sexual reassignment surgery become lesbian’s. Many transgendered men marry, maintain satisfactory sexual relationships with their wives and then opt for reassignment surgery later in life. These men usually live as women without any sexual attraction to women. India would be a great place to study this issue since India has about 500,000 men living as women who are gay only because they believe they are really mentally female and physically male. Most gay men have no desire to be female, so there is no real correlation between the two conditions. |
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