Study Suggests Difference in Lesbians’ Brains – AP Story

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3 responses to “Study Suggests Difference in Lesbians’ Brains – AP Story”

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   2006-05-09

   Wayne

   DC,
   Unfortunately, I don’t think the study does much to settle the old “genetic vs. acquired” debate.
   From another news article on the research: “Savic, who is the lead author of both studies, cautioned that neither study proves people are born gay. The response could be biological or learned. Determining an answer will require further study.”
   Studies on the brains of people who have chemical addictions show marked differences between them and the non-addicted. But as with this study, the old chicken and egg question of: “Was the brain born that way or have learned behaviors changed the organization of the brain?” still exists. It may be years before anything definitive is discovered in either case.
   Looking at it from a Christian perspective, it doesn’t make a difference either way to me. I don’t know the answers to these questions, but I do know that the commandment has not changed: “Love your neighbor as yourself”
   For traditionalist, I don’t think it would matter either. Even if it could be proven that homosexuality was an inborn trait, that would not change the scriptures, so I’m thinking they would still feel compelled to condemn it on the basis of faithfulness to “scriptural authority.”

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   2006-05-09

   BG Lynch

   I read several years ago that a young boy had been molested by a amputee. He later became “turned on” to amputees. Another who started titilating himself by looking into windows. He eventually became sexually excited every time he saw an open window. I am convinced we learn our “turn ons” through our minds (eyes, ears, imaginations) and our experiences.
   I am reminded of a movie I saw years ago, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” in which an alien invader sowed seeds in which human likenesses formed and began replacing people. They could only do this when the people went to sleep. Have we Americans dozed off and allowed the hedonists to take us over? Hedonism seems to be the new religion that more and more have the blessings of government. In the sixties the mantra was, “If it feels good, do it!” Many of those stoned, drunk and misguided adherents grew up and are now in the government, financial institutions, businesses and religious organizations promoting and encouraging it as our families break apart, our children are orphaned and our hearts are shredded. We have people sitting around contemplating their genitalia and suggesting anyone who finds that vapid and perverse as hateful.
   I’ll tell you what is hateful! Adults who rob children’s innocence by introducing them to this “seediness”. I am fully convinced I was molested as a child because a guy came into the neighborhood with pornographic trash and introduced the children to this seediness. I am fully convinced that a nephew and millions are dead and ill and/or heartbroken because older guys introduced them to this seediness . I am convinced that millions have never been able to rise above the horrors of those experiences to lead lives intended.
   It is hateful that a handsome, intelligent young man was introduced to this seediness when he was fourteen by a twenty-four year old man. It started this child on a life path that certainly did not feel good! He was deathly ill for years, enduring the side affects of medication and disease that he said made him feel as if he was turning inside out. He lost everything he had and was living with relatives as an invalid when it finally seemed he could no longer endure his suffering. He ended his life at the age of thirty-six. You probably have guessed he really died in agony from AIDS. When he first was diagnosed with HIV he and I had a conversation in which he revealed this and the kind of life he had been living. He told me he frequented bars specializing in making it easy for people to meet who were looking for homosexual contacts. He admitted he and others would sit there and watch boys walk out with men they knew were infected with AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. He said at that time ten “friends” had succumbed to AIDS or the side effects of medication. I was shocked and told him the time would come when people who kept quiet when someone was in danger would be held liable. Was I ever mistaken about that!
   Sex is the new religion (it is not really new……..a number of ancient idolatrous religions had sex acts as their rites of choice.) And there is no small number of self-made “prophets” (male and female) who have and are deluding their followers into “servicing” them and other morally bankrupt adherents .
   I’m trying to remember how that movie mentioned at the beginning ended, but I don’t think it was good!
   We better “WAKE UP!

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   2006-05-10

   bls

   BG Lynch, child molestation and lesbianism are not related – and there’s certainly nothing in your post that would indicate they are. Please at least stick to the topic.

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