sexual preference

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2 total messages Started by Stephanie Merino Wed, 20 Jan 1993 21:14

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Author: Stephanie Merino
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 21:14

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  Hello there. This is Stephanie Merino.  I am in your Biology II
class. For a few weeks now you have been sending and recieving
messages about the very controversial subject of "SEXUAL
PREFERENCE." IT has been very interesting to see your excitement
and sometimes rage at some of the replies you have gotten.  I was
just wondering if there is some specific reason (other than
morality) that you get so fired up about this topic.?? I believe
much the same as you do but I find it easier sometimes to just
ignore the people who defend gays and lesbians.  IF a person choses
to be gay or lesbian fine, but I cannot understand why they should
have the right to try and justify it by saying if was inborn.  I
often wonder what the parents say or feel about their children who
say that somehow this gay "gene" was given to them by one or both
of their parents??  I am not sure how I would deal with this
situation if it presented itself with me.  What would you do?
Would you disown your child or try to help him? 


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Re: sexual preference

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Author: Mickey Rowe
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:39

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In article <40009.2B5E58FF@puddle.fidonet.org>
    Stephanie.Merino@p0.f14.n346.z1.fidonet.org (Stephanie Merino) writes:

>IF a person choses to be gay or lesbian fine, but I cannot understand
>why they should have the right to try and justify it by saying if was
>inborn.

I find it interesting that you seem to think that people should have
"a right" to make a claim about the causality of a given condition.
Don't you think it best that we continue to try to understand human
behavior without prejudice about what does or doesn't cause it?

>I often wonder what the parents say or feel about their children who
>say that somehow this gay "gene" was given to them by one or both of
>their parents??

Although I doubt there's any hard evidence about this, I suspect that
they don't feel as bad as parents from previous generations.  They
were told that their children were "abnormal" because the parents made
mistakes in raising them.  From the perspective of science, I fear
that this question is pretty much irrelevant, however.  A theory's
truth should not be rated by how the objects described by the theory
"feel" about it.

> I am not sure how I would deal with this situation if it presented
>itself with me.  What would you do?  Would you disown your child or
>try to help him?

This discussion probably doesn't belong in a group devoted to science,
but I think the first step should involve trying to *understand* the
child.

>uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!346!14.0!Stephanie.Merino
>Internet: Stephanie.Merino@p0.f14.n346.z1.fidonet.org

Mickey Rowe     (rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu)

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