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From: jlynch@ccvax.ucd.ie
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: The persistance of homosexuality in a gene pool
Message-ID: <3635.26b04aac@ccvax.ucd.ie>
Date: 27 Jul 90 14:07:40 GMT
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In article <328@tygra.ddmi.com>, jpp@tygra.ddmi.com (John Palmer) writes:
> Homosexuality is not inherited. It is a deception that Satan 
> plays on the human race to try to get them to commit the most
> vile sins imaginable. Everyone has a choice in these matters.
> God doesn't make anyone a fag - a person decides to become one,
> thus offending both God and his fellow man.

Its wonderful to see, in this 'enlightened age' of technology, that dark-age 
ethics still exist. Where would scientific discussion be without the likes of
John here, who clearly knows more than the average scientist about 
homosexuality; "everyone has a choice.....a person decides to become one"; 
there obviously must be a on/off swithch somewhere ..... its a pity there is
not one for Mr Palmer !
Seriously, I doubt if sexual orientation is inherited, as many people have
already pointed out. Wilsons theory about homosexual 'helpers ' appears to
lose face especially when you look at modern attitudes of some people to gays,
it is hard to imagine than primitive man would have reacted any different.
John

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John M. Lynch, Mammal Research Group, Department of Zoology, University
College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. JMLYNH92@IRLEARN.UCD.IE or
JLYNCH@CCVAX.UCD.IE. ...... a zoologist who likes computers !
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