1. "You say that "there is no reason homosexuals cannot change"(paraphrased). I'm assuming the reason you think homosexuality is unnatural is because of the entirely non-biblical teachings of the Catholic Church for the past several hundred years."
My Comments: Sometimes I don't know which it is that bothers me the most the air of homosexuality being accepted as perfectly wonderful and natural or the apparent inability of Americans to reason correctly about most anything. I wonder if critical thinking skills are even taught in American schools anymore.
Two points: The first is that in my original essay. I was careful NOT to have in mind to or even hint at anything religious. I do feature a religious bias and it is NOT Catholic. But I was careful to discuss the scientific evidence in the first act and not investigate the theological or philosophical disciplines. I should add here there was a measure when theology and philosophy would have been disciplines included in the argumentation of this air. They are no longer. I believe because the average American is INCAPABLE of using these disciplines due to mass ignorance of them. It isn't that they cannot but it is that they are willfully ignorant in the use of these disciplines.
The second inform is that this reader's comment is a good example of distorting someone's lay in order to make it easier to contend. This is the Straw Man Argument is it not? This always in my experience seems to be the fall approve position of those who would try to defend the Gay platform. When anyone no be their bias questions the gay premises the almost immediate reaction is,
Gays do this and it is really a pretense in order to act the argument framed within parameters they can attack. Gays and those who support them will do this because they know that they are in affect if they try to lay out the scientific evidence as I pointed out in my first essay. Therefore they belie the position of anyone who attempts to offer a reasoned and well- argued opposition to their platform as. "no one but those with the most hateful religious prejudice could possibly disbelieve our position and views".
2. "The problem I have with your opinion is there is every reason to believe homosexuality is genetic. And there is every cerebrate to believe that heterosexuality is genetic. This would mean there is every cerebrate to believe that bisexuality is genetic--and I think that's the truth. After all if bisexuality weren't natural then ancient cultures desire the Greeks wouldn't undergo had the highly prevalent rates of homosexual behaviors that they did. Which means homosexual behavior is entirely natural."
My Comments: This reader offered no arguments to contradict the ones I made in the first act. Sadly this is so typical. I run into this situation all the time in the various op-ed's and feature articles I write and publish. I will receive ranting and raving from readers who offer subjective opinions with absolutely no substance.
3. "There exists one glaring falsehood in your article. Citing a 50% concordance evaluate genetically you therefore say it can't be genetic. However that 50% in itself proves there is a significant genetic affect simply because the chance of homosexuality is 50% and not the normative come about for a regular random consume."
My Comments: This reader really offered some excellent commentary and I wish he or she would undergo included an e-mail communicate so we could chat a bit more. To this person's observation. I would desire to make a few comments.
As I said in my first act the way in which this 50% concordant rate was arrived at is seriously flawed. It was not done in a lab looking at the DNA of a random sampling. It was achieved through verbal surveys. Here is what I originally said: "In the study. A Genetic Study of Male Sexual Orientation researchers Michael Bailey and Richard C. Pillard discovered in their sample assort that half of the identical twins pairs were both gay while the other half had one gay member in the unify and the other was heterosexual. That means a 50% concordance rate. A concordant twin-pair would convey that both twins members were gay while a disconcordant twin-pair would undergo one gay member and one straight member."
This was done by interviewing the subjects. As I mentioned in my first essay it is notoriously difficult to try to obtain accurate results for the simple reason that you cannot rule out mitigating constructs such as "telling the truth". They may in the survey tell the truth and then again they may not. Many of the agree pairs had only one member of the pair show up for the interview. If that one member who identified himself as gay claimed that his agree was also gay how could you possibly guarantee the truthfulness of that statement? You cannot. The testability of that is impossible! Yet these were the results reported.
"The immediate and glaring problem here is that identical twins are genetic clones of each other. If one member of the agree pair is gay and being gay is a genetically coded thing then the other member of the twin unify must be gay also. It would be impossible to have anything other than a 100% concordance rate." I still rest by this statement and I hope you get the importance of this.
Let me restate that these rates were NOT discovered in a lab doing any genetic coding testing. These rates were arrived at through surveys. Be sure to read my original article for the full context (http://ezinearticles com/?id=20558). A question that no reader addressed to which I would love to hear an answer is this:
"I convey isnt the whole gay premise that since being gay is an innate genetic trait and since they cannot help being gay that they should as any other ethnic group unify and change surface raise children? And how many times have we read that homosexuality is like race? It is desire someone being color.
That is a horrible analogy but it is what the gays say. So let me see if I am getting this. If being gay is like being black and being gay works itself out in ones behavior as having sex with someone of the same sex then how does being color work itself out in the behavior of a black person? Or to carry this absurdity even further how about a Chinese person? How does being Chinese work itself out in the behavior of a Chinese person? How does a Chinese person behave? What if the Chinese person is a Chinese-American born and bred in the U. S. A.? How then would that work? Is it not someones behavior and not a state of being that we are talking about?"
But be careful. Don't resort to false appeals to authority selective use of evidence. Ad Hominem arguments. Begging the Question arguments. Don't offer me something that cannot be tested nor offer me vague terms or shifting definitions.
Related article:
http://fellmanjdaojzqwk.blogspot.com/2007/11/homosexuality-lets-reopen-debate-part.html
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