{"id":36251,"date":"2016-08-31T09:39:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T15:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=36251"},"modified":"2016-08-31T17:09:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T23:09:52","slug":"have-we-been-grossly-misled-on-questions-of-gayness-and-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/08\/have-we-been-grossly-misled-on-questions-of-gayness-and-gender.html","title":{"rendered":"Have we been grossly misled on questions of gayness and gender?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_36252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36252\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Hopkins_hospital.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36252\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-36252\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/08\/Hopkins_hospital.jpg\" alt=\"Hopkins Hospital\" width=\"596\" height=\"447\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Johns Hopkins Hospital has often been ranked the best in the United States<br>(Public domain photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Is the new orthodox consensus on homosexuality and gender issues wrong? \u00a0Even harmful?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s something worth considering:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/docLib\/20160819_TNA50SexualityandGender.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/docLib\/20160819_TNA50SexualityandGender.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The authors are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/authors\/lawrence-mayer\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lawrence Mayer<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_R._McHugh\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Paul McHugh<\/a>, both of whom are associated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johns_Hopkins_School_of_Medicine\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Johns Hopkins School of Medicine<\/a>, which consistently ranks among the most distinguished in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I expect them to be dismissed as bigoted haters. \u00a0As I will be.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That won\u2019t be a cogent response.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 Is the new orthodox consensus on homosexuality and gender issues wrong? \u00a0Even harmful? \u00a0 Here\u2019s something worth considering: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.thenewatlantis.com\/docLib\/20160819_TNA50SexualityandGender.pdf \u00a0 The authors are Lawrence Mayer and\u00a0Paul McHugh, both of whom are associated with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, which consistently ranks among the most distinguished in the world. \u00a0 I expect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Have we been grossly misled on questions of gayness and gender?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; Is the new orthodox consensus on homosexuality and gender issues wrong? 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