Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:05 pm
http://www.skeptictank.org/gaygene.htm
"Hamer and colleagues studied the family histories of 114 gay men and found that their brothers, maternal uncles, and maternal male cousins were more likely to be homosexual than would be expected among the general male population. In some families, gay relatives could be traced back for three generations. Because the homosexual uncles and male cousins of the gay subjects were raised in different households, the scientists hypothesized that a genetic factor was involved. Furthermore, the maternal link suggested that homosexuality might be associated with the X chromosome, which is the sex-linked chromosome that men inherit only from their mothers.
Explicit evidence for a genetic link was obtained by studying the X chromosome DNA of 40 pairs of gay brothers. The scientists used a technique called linkage mapping to search for patterns of similarity in the genetic information of related individuals. Thirty-three of the gay sibling pairs had coinherited genetic markers in the same chromosome region called Xq28, suggesting that 65 percent of the families studied were transmitting a gene for homosexual orientation."
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Basra and Gedo have suggested that homosexuality is a biological error in that it limits reproduction. I don't believe the evidence supports this.
Note that the region for sexual orientation is on the female chromosome and that homosexuality in matriarchal societies is not perceived as a threat, and is, in fact, institutionalized, as in the berdache in American indian societies.
The issue with population growth is not so much how many are born as it is how many survive in what condition to themselves reproduce.
Given the consistant and persistant percentages of homosexuals in all human societies through time, and the fact that male homosexuals outnumber female homosexuals by a precise factor of two to one, it suggests to me that homosexuality is innate and must somehow support the reproductive success of the families and societies in which it occurs.
I note that in many "pack" societies, such as wolves, chimpanzees, meercats and Harris hawks, only one couple, or only one male, actually breeds. All the excess potential breeders are relegated to support positions. Earliest man was almost certainly a pack animal.
I suspect that Abrahamic patriarchy, and a linked condemnation of homosexuality, is a relatively late human invention that does not follow the implications of the genome or the practices of the earliest human groups.
In any case, it is certainly not something the patriarchal faiths have been able to eliminate. The evidence is not all in yet, but I am inclined to believe this is because homosexuality is not a biological error at all, but rather a support mechanism for mothers and the group which leads to improved reproductive success.
Total kufr, I know.
"Hamer and colleagues studied the family histories of 114 gay men and found that their brothers, maternal uncles, and maternal male cousins were more likely to be homosexual than would be expected among the general male population. In some families, gay relatives could be traced back for three generations. Because the homosexual uncles and male cousins of the gay subjects were raised in different households, the scientists hypothesized that a genetic factor was involved. Furthermore, the maternal link suggested that homosexuality might be associated with the X chromosome, which is the sex-linked chromosome that men inherit only from their mothers.
Explicit evidence for a genetic link was obtained by studying the X chromosome DNA of 40 pairs of gay brothers. The scientists used a technique called linkage mapping to search for patterns of similarity in the genetic information of related individuals. Thirty-three of the gay sibling pairs had coinherited genetic markers in the same chromosome region called Xq28, suggesting that 65 percent of the families studied were transmitting a gene for homosexual orientation."
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Basra and Gedo have suggested that homosexuality is a biological error in that it limits reproduction. I don't believe the evidence supports this.
Note that the region for sexual orientation is on the female chromosome and that homosexuality in matriarchal societies is not perceived as a threat, and is, in fact, institutionalized, as in the berdache in American indian societies.
The issue with population growth is not so much how many are born as it is how many survive in what condition to themselves reproduce.
Given the consistant and persistant percentages of homosexuals in all human societies through time, and the fact that male homosexuals outnumber female homosexuals by a precise factor of two to one, it suggests to me that homosexuality is innate and must somehow support the reproductive success of the families and societies in which it occurs.
I note that in many "pack" societies, such as wolves, chimpanzees, meercats and Harris hawks, only one couple, or only one male, actually breeds. All the excess potential breeders are relegated to support positions. Earliest man was almost certainly a pack animal.
I suspect that Abrahamic patriarchy, and a linked condemnation of homosexuality, is a relatively late human invention that does not follow the implications of the genome or the practices of the earliest human groups.
In any case, it is certainly not something the patriarchal faiths have been able to eliminate. The evidence is not all in yet, but I am inclined to believe this is because homosexuality is not a biological error at all, but rather a support mechanism for mothers and the group which leads to improved reproductive success.
Total kufr, I know.
Everything begins from the mother.In fact-- i think the mothers body is so important that-- if a mother desperately wished she had a boy--mentally thinking it, the body sends different signals to the entire body system-messing up & creating hormone imbalances.If the baby ends up being a girl-- that girl is almost certain of becoming a lesbian in adulthood.(or at least being attracted to her sex--a lesbian can succesesfully marry a man & have children with no problem at all lool) However--boys--its tuff-- for them--since they do all the work. Hence the reason why homosexual men out number lesbians in 2-1 
