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Re: Stop Conflating Homosexuality w/ Race
by jacquescas
As a black gay man (half white half black) I am always offended by the black side of my culture, the group that was literally treated as sub-human for 500 years cannot empathize with another group fighting for rights. Regardless of biology and choice.

When you say you can't choose to be white, it makes me think what if science allowed you to make that choice in a few years, you could clone hair follicles of white people and have a transplant giving you different hair, nose jobs and other cosmetic surgeries, and possibly some type of melanin eliminating therapy. If this were possible would you denounce black people for turning white now that it was possible? Michael Jackson has done a pretty good job of turning himself at least not black, he has blue eyed blond haired children.

Homosexuality is found in every animal species that we have spent any amount of time checking, dogs, cats, albatrosses. sheep, penguins, bears, pigs, eagles, rhinos, wasps, monkeys etc... and yet we still act like its a choice? i don't see a bear cub being molested turning it gay or because it saw two male bears have sex it became gay, it simply always was.

Also there doesn't have to be a why. people often say if its genetic then why, what is the advantage. Well what is the advantage of blue eyes ? Its one of the beauties of sex vs asexual reproduction, we pass on such a litany of genetic material that we each are like a little biological chemistry set slightly different than each other, the feminization of the male brain (which is currently the leading scientific theory) could have advantages that go beyond what we see ( think about Wesley snipes in the movie Blade, half vampire half human) and allow for a unique combination of the subtle difference between men and women, or it could be just a common genetic trait like blue eyes or uni-brows.

The only people who call homosexuality a choice are heterosexuals. and it is almost always rooted in non scientific research and usually has strong religious undertones.

Its funny because you don't even have the best anti-homosexual argument. If you really wanted to make an impact you should continue to push for it to be a disorder not a choice, then work towards being able to identify it at some embryonic state. Obviously at first you probably wouldn't be able to cure it, but you could abort it. since the gay population is considered around 7-10% you would be aborting an extra 350,000 to 400,000 babies a year, and eliminating that many homosexuals. Eventually it wouldn't have to be so brutal as probably with you and your ilk pushing the research you could possibly reverse sexuality early in the womb, although who knows long term side effects, but hey who knows the long term side effects of Lasik. who knows in a generation or two you could almost wipe out the homosexuals until all there is are a few old queens holding on to the last disco ball in their 90's. If you really want to be anti-homosexual that is the route for you.

Although personally i think what will happen is once gay marriage becomes fully legal and gays are allowed to openly serve in the military people will spend less and less resources trying to figure it out, the same way after WWII all the race related research done in Germany was eventually phased out as people will just deem it a waste of time and resources. People don't want homosexual children because society makes it tougher, if that were not the case then people would be as indifferent to it as the hair color of their children. Oh yah, when gay marriage becomes legal the number of homosexuals in the US could increase significantly as now marriage visas would be legal and the US would be the great gay hope for oppressed homosexuals in other countries (eastern block, china, south east asia, africa etc) They would come here looking for marriages and citizenship by the millions, thus strengthening the ranks and lowering the likelihood of any medical breakthrough in reversing sexuality.



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