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Texas Republicans have decided on a platform that includes abolishing minimum wage, cancelling climate research, banning the teaching of evolution at schools, and repealing the voting rights act, among other things, but hilariously (or depressingly) the one thing on this laundry list that people are angry about is their plan to "rehabilitate" homosexuals, a practice that many say is harmful.
BBC News has more: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27774102
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by ArhcAngel on Tuesday June 10 2014, @02:56AM
The reason the research is hard to find is that right after it was trotted out and heralded as proof sexual orientation was not a choice potential parents began having their unborn children tested for the gene supposedly responsible for this mutation so they could decide whether to abort or not. And the fact the brains used in the study were all from HIV + individuals cast a shadow on whether the area of the brain might have been affected by the disease or not. It also opened the door to the idea that if orientation is biological in nature why can't other conditions such as pedophilia, or rapists. There is strong evidence to suggest these conditions are genetically motivated as well.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 10 2014, @03:21AM
Ugh. There is SOOOO much wrong with what you wrote. For one thing, the link I already posted addressed the question of whether HIV affected INAH3 (later studies showed that it does not). But even the original researcher who found the INAH3 differences explicitly warned that there was nothing to indicate whether it was a cause or an effect of sexual orientation. Also, no such biological difference has been found in lesbians. Furthermore all that was in ~1980.
The "gay gene" (Xq28) [wikipedia.org] entered pop culture in 1993 and it was far from definitive - it influences but does not define sexual orientation. At the time thee researcher who found it estimated it plays a role in 5 to 30% of gay men. Much more recent studies suggests that it contributes about 40% to gay male sexual orientation. But those two numbers aren't comparable, nor are they black and white. Sexual orientation isn't simply just straight or gay (for proof just look at how many gay men have fathered children). And finally there is no current pre-natal test for Xq28 - nobody has been using it to abort gay fetuses. [ibtimes.com]
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by MozeeToby on Tuesday June 10 2014, @05:53AM
Pedophiles are significantly more likely to have experienced a head injury at the age that they are attracted to as adults. I.e. a pedophile who is attracted to 5 year olds is statistically likely to have had a head injury when they were 5 years old. There is all kinds of evidence that pedophilia is a function of brain impairment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 10 2014, @04:49PM
I.e. a pedophile who is attracted to 5 year olds is statistically likely to have had a head injury when they were 5 years old.
Dude, why are you making that up?
Yes, there seems to be a correlation between pedophilia and childhood brain injuries. [discovery.com]
No, there is nothing to suggest that the specific age of injury influences the age that the pedophile is attracted to.