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If someone found a way to stop fetuses from developing into gay adults,

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ruffilb

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Would you support a law banning such a "treatment"?

This presents an interesting case to me, because I'm of the opinion that gay people both

a) Do not present an innate degredation of society in any way, and
b) Can be, and often are, just as happy or happier than straight people

Still, the Constitutional interpretation required for such a ban would be... liberal, to say the least, so I can't say how I would stand on such an issue.

Note:
This thread was originally posted in P&N, where most of the P&Ners have read these articles.
 
It wouldn't matter the slightest to me if I were never born and I'm sure every gay person who is never born would feel the same way.
 
No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't agree with it either, but I can't support gay rights and try to ban something like this without becoming a hypocrite.
 
I dont see why that should be illegal. We already inject our kids with fairy tale religion and bigotry at a young age and there are no laws against that.
 
I'd be much more for injecting fetuses with a drug that prevented them from becoming a hate filled bigot despite what their parents teach them.
 
Originally posted by: thraashman
I'd be much more for injecting fetuses with a drug that prevented them from becoming a hate filled bigot despite what their parents teach them.
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QFT
 
You should also ask

If they found a way to reverse the gene in adults who were already gay (sort of like X-Men) ... would it be supported or not
 
Interesting thought about preventing gayness.

None of my kids were gay, but I would not have cared if they all had been. Since I also hope the day comes soon when being gay is not detrimental to people; what would be the point?

If we one day determine the highest human population that the planet can sustain, perhaps we will want shots that make our offspring gay to keep breeding in check. That would be funny.
 
Originally posted by: jackschmittusa
Interesting thought about preventing gayness.

None of my kids were gay, but I would not have cared if they all had been. Since I also hope the day comes soon when being gay is not detrimental to people; what would be the point?

If we one day determine the highest human population that the planet can sustain, perhaps we will want shots that make our offspring gay to keep breeding in check. That would be funny.
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Planet of the Gays....

Guy from the past wakes up in the future to discover the last remnants of the "straight" civilization in a beat up playboy magazine: "damn you all...damn you all to hell!!"
 
The bibble and jebus said Adam and Eve, not Aidan and Steve! 😉

OK, all joking aside, I think stopping the gay proliferation would take us backwards at least 20 years. We have gained and grown from such relationships, all of us, although some of us have not figured it out yet. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: compuwiz1
The bibble and jebus said Adam and Eve, not Aidan and Steve! 😉

OK, all joking aside, I think stopping the gay proliferation would take us backwards at least 20 years. We have gained and grown from such relationships, all of us, although some of us have not figured it out yet. 🙂
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How have we gained and grown from gay relationships? It hasn't affected me at all nor anyone I know.
 
Originally posted by: thepd7
you are assuming the genome project will find a gay gene then?
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There IS NO SUCH THING as a "gay gene". However, there are assemblances of standard genes (which we all have) that favor development of gay traits and leanings - like a lower level of testosterone, and/or an increased level of estrogen in a male body. The genetic coding for those hormones, and their levels, exist in all of us - the precise combination of this trait and that trait is probably pretty complex and may even vary between people - one gets his gay leanings from this combination (let's say depressed levels of testosterone), another gets their leanings from a different one (raised levels of estrogen). Obviously those ratios are reversed for lesbians...

At any rate - no gay gene, but most probably a VERY complex relationship between genetic coding at many sites across several genes.

I wish the fundies would stop trying to simply nature down to their ideological level of simple solutions for complex problems - we are far more complex and evolved creatures than we can even understand at present...

Future Shock
 
No, I wouldn't. Actually, let me rephrase. ****** NO! I wouldn't. Though I could almost be temped to support the treating of fetuses for what results in the devlopement of homophobic douchebag adults... Almost.

I would support this at about the same time I would support abortion... Never.
 
Originally posted by: Future Shock
Originally posted by: thepd7
you are assuming the genome project will find a gay gene then?
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There IS NO SUCH THING as a "gay gene". However, there are assemblances of standard genes (which we all have) that favor development of gay traits and leanings - like a lower level of testosterone, and/or an increased level of estrogen in a male body. The genetic coding for those hormones, and their levels, exist in all of us - the precise combination of this trait and that trait is probably pretty complex and may even vary between people - one gets his gay leanings from this combination (let's say depressed levels of testosterone), another gets their leanings from a different one (raised levels of estrogen). Obviously those ratios are reversed for lesbians...

At any rate - no gay gene, but most probably a VERY complex relationship between genetic coding at many sites across several genes.

I wish the fundies would stop trying to simply nature down to their ideological level of simple solutions for complex problems - we are far more complex and evolved creatures than we can even understand at present...

Future Shock
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Sounds like some Lego sets I've seen. Very advanced. But at the end of the day, it still comes down to basic building blocks.
 
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