{"id":1812,"date":"2013-08-19T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/08\/we-dont-know-causes-homosexuality.html"},"modified":"2013-08-19T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T22:44:00","slug":"we-dont-know-causes-homosexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2013\/08\/we-dont-know-causes-homosexuality.html","title":{"rendered":"We don’t know causes homosexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

After I posted my comment below<\/a>, I just had to step back and post the footnote again. \u00a0I mean, really. Think on this. \u00a0This is the American Psychiatric Association. \u00a0The go-to source for all gay advocates because of its clear promotion and support for homosexual normality. \u00a0Think of it. \u00a0The assumption is that if you\u2019re against homosexuality, it\u2019s like begin against Blacks or Jews. \u00a0It\u2019s like racism. \u00a0Since being gay is like being Black or Jewish. \u00a0You\u2019re born that way, to quote St. G-. \u00a0That\u2019s taught. \u00a0That\u2019s affirmed. \u00a0That\u2019s assumed in almost every media outlet, educational curriculum, entertainment venue. \u00a0It is taught in churches. \u00a0It\u2019s affirmed by some Catholics. \u00a0It\u2019s a fact: being gay is like being Black or White or Asian. \u00a0And not accepting it is the same as not accepting Blacks or Asians (we\u2019re still out on the whole not accepting Whites). <\/p>\n

Except, it\u2019s not. \u00a0It\u2019s all a lie. \u00a0I saw something like this on a Homosexual Advocacy website a few years ago. \u00a0In the Q&A; section, first question \u2013 why are people gay \u2013 was answered with \u2018we don\u2019t know.\u2019 \u00a0I also read something about it in an article linking to the New England Journal of Medicine. \u00a0But those were passing references or agenda driven non-profits. \u00a0This is the APA, one of the key scientific and medical foundations for \u2018born to be gay\u2019 justification for not only allowing gay marriage, but increasingly punishing anyone who doesn\u2019t accept it. \u00a0And yet it\u2019s a lie. \u00a0A great big, giant, massive, huge lie. \u00a0And how do we know? \u00a0Because this \u2013 THIS! \u2013 is what that same APA says about the subject on its very own Freaking website:<\/p>\n

What causes Homosexuality\/Heterosexuality\/Bisexuality?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No one knows what causes heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality. Homosexuality was once thought to be the result of troubled family dynamics or faulty psychological development. Those assumptions are now understood to have been based on misinformation and prejudice. Currently there is a renewed interest in searching for biological etiologies for homosexuality. However, to date there are no replicated scientific studies supporting any specific biological etiology for homosexuality. Similarly, no specific psychosocial or family dynamic cause for homosexuality has been identified, including histories of childhood sexual abuse. Sexual abuse does not appear to be more prevalent in children who grow up to identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, than in children who identify as heterosexual.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The 21st Century. \u00a0A time of unparalleled stupidity when people are quite prepared to flush liberty and freedom down the toilet when the very agencies used to support the reasons to do so contradict the reasons used. \u00a0And in the age of \u2018the Information Highway!\u2019 no less. <\/p>\n

Some generations have done so for meat and circuses. \u00a0Others have done so for bread and peace. \u00a0Some have gone so far as to sell their birthright for a bowl of stew. \u00a0But post-modern hipster brilliant enlightened types? \u00a0We\u2019re taking one of the greatest political gifts in human history and tossing it for some legal drugs, unlimited orgasms, the latest iPad app, and the ability to abort or someday euthanize whatever stands in the way of our libidos. \u00a0I mean, dumb and wicked generation.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After I posted my comment below, I just had to step back and post the footnote again. \u00a0I mean, really. Think on this. \u00a0This is the American Psychiatric Association. \u00a0The go-to source for all gay advocates because of its clear promotion and support for homosexual normality. \u00a0Think of it. \u00a0The assumption is that if you\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nWe don't know causes homosexuality<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After I posted my comment below, I just had to step back and post the footnote again.  I mean, really. 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