----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: So it begins.... Evangelicals to Bush: Payback Time


> Dan said:
> 
> > It has recently been replaced by  the recession theory: men born
> > during ecconomic downturns are more likely to be gay when they are
> > adults.
> 
> I was reading yesterday about how in mice and deer (and presumably other
> animals), the birth weights of male and female offspring change to
> favour females in hard times and males in times of plenty. I don't know
> if your recession theory is serious or not, but it could in some way be
> related; although I guess that the direct pseudo-economic evolutionary
> analysis wouldn't apply.

No, it was just a silly play on words.  

Dan M. 

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