The Baha'i Studies Listserv I was talking about heterosexual monogamy being best, what studies of homosexual monogamy and parenting are you familiar with?
Sent from my iPad On Apr 9, 2013, at 13:30, Don Calkins <don59...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > Serious researchers agree. The best evidence is actually the original > identical twin study. In spite of what gay activists claim, it proves that > being homosexual is not primarily genetically determined. > > #1 - the participants were not found via some kind of random process, but > were actively recruited thru' ads in gay interest magazines/newspaper at the > time. Further, both siblings had to agree to the tests/questionaires. This > means that they were more open to the idea of homosexual acceptability than > the general public. > > #2 - in spite of this, only half of the identical twins who were homosexual > had siblings who were also homosexual. If homosexuality was indeed primarily > genetically determined, then the correlation would have been on the order or > 95%, not 52%. > > Does this study prove there is a genetic element? The methodology is too > flawed to be definitive. But it proves that there are other factors > involved. > If genetics is not, then, the determining element, then psycho-sociological > factors must be. And in fact we do not know in how many of the cases of > positive correlation genetics was in fact the determining element. > > Numerous studies over the last 50 years have shown that homosexual activity > is far higher than had been previously tho't. What these studies show more > conclusively is that most humans are biologically bisexual in their interests > and that the expression of this interest is determined by social mores. > There also appears to be a very small percentage of people who are > exclusively heterosexual or homosexual, who are incapable of orgasm in any > other way. My personal guess is that each of these two categories prob > constitute on the order of 1:1000. > > Don C > > > On Apr 9, 2013, at 10:31 04AM, Stephen Kent Gray wrote: > >> Don C, social conservatives say that all the time despite evidence >> contradicting that. Any scientific evidence behind your theories? > > > ------------- > Understood properly, all man's problems are essentially spiritual in nature. > > > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-695973-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
