Originally posted by: outriding
Ok I have a question for the anti gay people here...
Do you know what the percentage of being gay when ....
You are an identical twin is gay?
or Your faternal twin is gay?
I will post the answer and my source later tonight.
I can't answer those two questions - but I DO know that 10% of the human population is "gay" or homosexual. This statistic is invariate across populaitions, educational systems, cultures, religions, and time periods.
More importantly, this 10% have been shown to respond differently than straight people to phermones - they are attracted to the phermonal scent of the same sex, not the opposite sex. Man are attracted to the scent of sweaty men, women to other women's scents. This again is consistent across study populations.
Homosexuality DOES run in families, and appears to be an inherited trait.
There is, therefore, a quite strong arguement that 10% of the population is just biologically homosexual. It doesn't mean that they are exclusively homosexual - a friend of mine married a woman that for most of her life was lesbian - but really liked him as a person, and they wanted to have children together, and did enjoy straight sex with him as well. But she admitted that she was still attracted to women too...and he was fine with that.
You can't "hide your children" from it - 10% of the population, cutting across all racial and income lines, is a pretty large swath of people to shield them from. One out of every 10 teachers they have will be gay. A fair number of priests are gay (oh my GOD - don't take your children to church!!!).
IMHO - these parents are idiots, and shouldn't have reproduced...
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