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Behavior Trumps the Label of "Orientation"
Labelling a person as 'gay' or 'straight' connotes particular behavior which is deemed 'wired'. But the big issue which Saletan slightly implies is: human freewill determines behavior before and beyond 'orientation' or 'wiring'. ''Wiring'' refers to blinking, breathing, heart rates, so forth. Everything else humans have to learn, ...
Posted to Human Nature by Usama3 on April 1, 2009
Immutability Schmootability
In the matter of gay civil rights, why should it matter whether or not homosexuality is genetic? Human beings are famous for going against the grain (whether that grain tends toward the gay or the straight). Doesn't this country protect individual rights, including the right of the individual to choose the partner and create the family and ...
Posted to Human Nature by PipoNYC on November 15, 2008