Reply #29: Only in the United States [View All]

Efforts to reproduce the homosexual twin studies came up with the opposite results in other Western nations, such as Austrailia. Was there something wrong w/ the methodology here? The methodology there? Is it something about American culture?

Another recent study found that homosexuals were seven times as likely to have been molested as children, strongly suggesting that environment plays an important role. Rarely are things all nature or all nurture; a biologic predisposition does not mean a guarantee of homosexuality, merely an increased likelihood.

Like you, many of my gay friends agree that they were gay at birth -- but fully half of them (five, off the top of my head) swear that they made a conscious choice, or some other life-event led them to be gay. I really don't even care WHY they're gay, 'cept maybe intellectual curiosity. What diffrence could it possibly make to me?