>At 11:47 AM 03/06/2000 -0600, Susan Brassfield wrote:
>
>>I agree. This, of course, is an excellent illustration of the fact that
>>people don't choose their sexual orientation. You are born one way and you
>>are stuck with it! Religious moralizing only causes psychological damage.
>>Suicide rates among homosexual teens is much higher than among "normal"
>>adolescents.
>
Steve Clark:
>This is an example of the phenomenon that if something is said often enough
>it becomes "truth". To say that people are born with a certain type of
>sexual orientation is to make a socio/political statement rather than a
>statement of biological fact. There is NOTHING that proves this
>proposition. On the other hand, there may be things consistent with the
>proposition, as well as things inconsistent with it. Neither of these
>represents proof of it.
the story Steve Jones posted certainly provided compelling evidence.
Someone tried to make a boy into a girl and failed miserably. Stories have
begun to surface all other the place where some little boy was turned into
a girl surgically during infancy and it backfired.
So what sexual orientation were you when you were born? And at what age did
you make your choice?
Susan
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For if there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing
of life as in hoping for another and in eluding the implacable grandeur of
this one.
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