Rob Wade wrote:
Does a "gay gene" really exist?
Nathan Tabor
"Wonderful Husband. Loving Father. Former Homosexual. Jesus Christ
Changes Lives."
So read the billboards sponsored by Stephen Bennett, the head of a
Christian family advocacy group based in Huntingdon, Connecticut. The
ad, part of a nationwide campaign last year opposed to same-sex
marriage, features a large photo of Bennett with his lovely wife and
two children.
Some advertising companies refused to accept Bennett's ads because of
their "controversial content." Wherever the ads were posted, gay
rights
activists rose up in anger to protest the very idea that homosexuals
can change, or even should want to.
But Bennett is one of thousands of practicing homosexuals who has
reversed his sexual orientation and found fulfillment in heterosexual
marriage. His message is simple: unhappy gays do have hope because
real
change is possible.
Why do the radical gay activists resent Bennett's message so much?
Because it clearly refutes the urban myth they have so carefully
crafted: the lie that about 10 percent of the population is "born
gay"
and simply can't help it. Many today are being taught to believe that
homosexuality is a genetic condition, like skin or eye color. This
deception has been nurtured over the years by the pro-homosexual
major
media. But like other urban myths, this is a lie. (To learn more
about
how this myth got started, go to
http://www.narth.com/docs/istheregene.html.)
Supporters of this "born gay" thesis frequently refer to a series of
scientific studies in the 1990s, particularly one by a homosexual
activist researcher named Dr. Dean Hamer of the National Cancer
Institute, a study that supposedly identified an "X chromosome"
possibly linked to homosexuality. Published in the journal Science
back
in July of 1993, that report said merely that researchers were
studying
the linkage between certain genes and homosexual behavior.
National Public Radio quickly trumpeted the news, followed by the
Wall
Street Journal and other major newspapers. Next Newsweek emblazoned
"Gay Gene?" across its cover. The average layperson reading these
reports clearly got the message that science had discovered a gene
that
causes or determines homosexual behavior. But that is not what the
research actually revealed, as even Dr. Hamer himself admitted.
Establishing a possible linkage does not prove causality, as all real
scientists know.
In their Fact Sheet on Sexual Orientation (published in 2000), the
American Psychiatric Association contradicts the "born gay" claim.
"There are no replicated scientific studies supporting any specific
biological etiology for homosexuality," the APA said. So much for the
pseudo-science of the New Gay '90s.
We should remember that until 1973, the APA classified homosexuality
as
a deviant mental disorder. But 1973 was not a good year for morals
and
values in America, being the year that abortion was legalized and the
APA revised its DSSM manual.
Then, in ironic twist of fate, Dr. Robert Spitzer, the very same
doctor
who got the APA to change its stance on homosexuality in 1973, came
back in 2003 and changed his own mind. Why did this formerly zealous
pro-homosexual reformer have a change of heart? Because - although he
described himself as "initially skeptical" - he personally
interviewed more than 200 former homosexuals who had changed to
heterosexual through what he called "reparative therapy"!
To his credit, Dr. Spitzer dared to tell the truth about his
findings,
despite the rabid rantings of the radical gay activists who foresaw
the
dire implications of this revelation. Dr. Spitzer's report, entitled
"200 Participants Reporting a Change from Homosexual to Heterosexual
Orientation," was published in the October 2003 edition of the
prominent journal Archives of Sexual Behaviour.
"Almost all of the participants reported substantive changes to the
core aspects of sexual orientation, not merely overt behaviour," Dr.
Spitzer wrote. In other words, they didn't just change their
homosexual
actions, but their unnatural attractions as well!
What's more, they were better off mentally for doing so. "For the
participants in our study, there was no evidence of harm," he added.
Dr. Spitzer described these 200 conversion decisions as a "rational,
self-directed goal" that was achieved. Not a single one committed
suicide through guilt-induced self-loathing.
"Mental health professionals should stop moving in the direction of
banning therapy that has as its goal a change in sexual orientation,"
Dr. Spitzer concluded. "Many patients can make a rational choice
toward
developing their heterosexual potential and minimizing their
homosexual
attractions."
Coming from the man who was responsible for redefining homosexual
deviancy as "normal" more than three decades ago, that's quite a
turnaround.
Conservatives need to stand up and hold homosexuals accountable to
the
facts. They will have to acknowledge that their lifestyles are
personal
choices, before anyone else should be expected to grant them the
legitimacy they seek.
The Gay Gene doesn't exist. Whether it's through "reparative therapy"
or through a higher power, the fact remains: homosexuals CAN change .
..
. if they want to.
For more information please visit http://www.sbministries.org/
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Check for Gene here.
The history of the homosexual community in North America is a very
interesting one. It dates back to the colonial days. This web page will
reveal some of the major events that have shaped gay culture over the
years.
Colonial days yet? Was Gene a Minute Man?
1528-36- Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca writes about
finding effeminate Indians in what is now Florida.
1566- Guillermo, a French interpreter, is murdered by the Spanish in
Florida for being a "great Sodomite".
1610- The Virginia colony passes the earliest American sodomy law,
making the practice punishable by death, usually by hanging. However,
women are excluded from the law.
1613- Francisco de Pareja, Spanish missionary in Florida, records in
his Confessionario the likelihood of sodomy amond native American
Indians. Apparently, homosexuality was rampant in the culture and
probably helped fuel the opinion that Indians were savages and less
human than the European invaders.
1624- With very little evidence, Richard Cornish, the master of the
Ambrose, is hanged in Virginia for "buggery" of one of his indentured
servants, the ship's steward, William Cowse.
1629- The first record of gender ambiguity by Thomas/Thomasine Hall in
Virginia.
- On the Talbot, Reverend Francis Higginson records "5 beastly
Sodomiticall boys" who confess to their alleged misdoings.
Massachusetts supposedly hanged them, as any male over the age of 14
years could be hanged if caught or even suspected of committing sodomy.
1636- Reverend John Cotton of Massachusetts proposes the death penalty
for 16 crimes, including sodomy. Massachusetts rejects the code.
- Codification of laws in Plymouth colony include eight death penalty
offenses - treason, murder, witchcraft, etc.
1641- Massachusetts makes sodomy a capital crime, but excuses
lesbianism as a crime. They cite Lev. 20:13, which condemns "man lying
with mankind as he lies with a woman."
1642- Connecticut includes sodomy in its 12 capital crimes.
- Salem, Massachusetts: Elizabeth Johnson recieves a whipping for
lesbianism.
1646- Jan Creoli, a negro, is choked to death in New Netherland for
supposedly sodomizing a ten year old boy named Manuel Congo. Congo
recieves a flogging for his participation in the crime.
- William Plaine, one of the original settlers of Guilford, Connecticut
is accused of committing sodomy twice in England and of corrupting "a
great part of the youth of Guilford by masturbations". He is executed
in New Haven.
1647- Rhode Island makes sodomy amongst men a capital offense, but
excuses lesbianism.
1648- A young soldier in Montreal is charged with "the worst of crimes"
(sodomy). The Jesuit Church intervene on his behalf and his sentence to
hard labor is commuted on condition that he become New France's first
executioner.
1649- Plymouth: 2 married women, Sara Norman and Mary Hammon, are
charged with lewd behavior. The 15-year-old Hammon is cleared; Norman
(who was older) acknowledged publicly her behavior as punishment, ala
The Scarlet Letter.
1656- New Haven: A law is passed that makes the death penalty
applicable to both men and women.
1660- New Netherland: Jan Quisthout vander Linde is drowned on
suspicion of sodomy. Hendrick Harmensen, the boy supposedly sodomized,
is whipped.
1665- New Netherland becomes New York after the British takeover, and
imposes the death penalty for anyone over the age of 14 who breaks a
capital offense law.
1668- New Jersey passes a capital crimes law. Plymouth and Connecticut
later amend theirs to match that of New Jersey.
1673-77- Father Jacques Marquettes, on his first voyage down the
Mississippi River, observes cross dressers in the tribes of the
Nadouessi and Illinois indians.
1680- New Hampshire passes its first capital crimes laws.
1682- Pennsylvania: A Quaker colony, Pennsylvania is the first state to
make sodomy a non-capital offense, limiting punishment to whipping,
forfeiture of 1/3 of one's estate, and six months of hard labor. The
law was amended in 1700 to life imprisonment or castration.
1712- Mingo, a slave of Wait Winthrop, the chief justice of
Massachusetts, is executed in Charlestown for "forcible buggery", ie.
male rape.
- South Carolina implements the English buggery law.
1718- Pennsylvania revises its laws, making sodomy a capital offense.
1719- Delaware adopts a sodomy law.
1721- Jesuit explorer Pierre Francois Xavier de Charlevoix records
effeminacy and widespread homosexuality and lesbianism among the indian
tribes in what is now Louisiana. The most prominent tribes in the area
at the time were the Iroquois and Illinois indians.
1776- Fleury Mesplet, Ben Franklin's good friend, publishes the play
Jonathas et David, or Le Triomphe de l'amitie, the first book ever
published in the city of Montreal. It is a three-act tragedy describing
the thinly veiled homoerotic relationship of the Biblical characters,
David and Jonathan.
- The Thirteen Colonies issue the Declaration of Independence from
England.
1778- In the newly formed Continental Army, Lieutenant Frederick
Gotthold Enslin is court martialed for a sodomy attempt.
1782- Deborah Sampson, descendent of Governor William Bradford, is
excommunicated from the First Baptist Church of Middleborough,
Massachusetts for lesbianism.
1792- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Moreau de St. Mery, a French lawyer
and politician, writes about widespread lesbianism among the women of
the city.
1804-10- Nicholas Biddle of the Lewis & Clark expedition notes that
among the Minitaree Indians the effeminate boys are raised as females.
Upon reaching puberty, the boys are then married to older men. The
French call them Birdashes.
1811- Fort Astoria, Oregon: Gabriel Franchere finds the first known
Kutenai lesbian amongst the Kutenai indian tribe.
1824-26- Louis Dwight writes the first documented report on homosexual
acts in U.S. prisons.
1839- Montreal: Thomas Clotworthy, 17, and Henry Cole, 11, are found
sharing a bed. The two boys are prosecuted in a court of law.
1846- New York City: Edward McCosker is dismissed from the New York
Police Department for sexually harrassing other male officers on duty.
1848- Seneca Falls, New York: The First Women's Rights Convention
officially begins the feminist movement, and jettisons several probable
lesbian and bisexual women into the spotlight, including Susan B.
Anthony.
1857- Washington, DC: James Buchanan becomes president of the United
States - the only bachelor president and likely homosexual.
1860- Gay poet Walt Whitman publishes the homoerotic Leaves of Grass.
1866- Brewster, Massachusetts: Horatio Alger, the author of several
popular boys' books, including the popular "rags to riches" novels, is
accused by the Unitarian Church of Brewster, Massachusetts of
practicing "deeds too revolting to relate" on young boys. Alger leaves
town to avoid the scandal.
1870- Bayard Taylor's Joseph and His Friend is the first U.S. novel to
touch on homosexuality.
1886- Montreal's La Presse reports on the gay nightlife in the city,
including the Champs-da-Mars, and the arrest of Clovis Villenevue
through police entrapment.
1892- Tennessee: Alice Mitchell found insane after murdering her lover
and fiancee Freda Ward. The story goes that Freda's sister found out
about the relationship and broke them up. Alice retaliated by slashing
Freda's throat.
1896- For the first time on an American stage, two women kiss in a
scene in A Florida Enchantment. At the intermission, ushers were sent
up and down the aisles to offer ice water to people who felt faint.
1897- Havelock Ellis writes in Sexual Inversion about the great numbers
of homosexuals living in U.S. cities.
1901- Influential New York politician Murray Hall dies, and then is
revealed to actually be a woman!
1912- At Polly Halliday's restaurant in New York, Herterodoxy, becomes
a feminist luncheon club for lesbians. Helen Hull, Katharine Anthony,
Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, Elisabeth Irwin, and Mabel Dodge Luhan all
eat there.
1914- Portland, Oregon: A dictionary of criminal slang is published.
The first recorded use of the word "*****" to describe homosexual men
is defined in the dictionary.
1916- New York City: Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village is the
first major off-Broadway theater. One of its first plays was Charles
Busch's Vampire Lesbians of Sodom.
1917- Montreal: 19-year-old Elsa Gidlow starts an artists salon in her
parents home. Roswell George Mills becomes her mentor.
1919- Newport, Rhode Island: The US Navy uses a squad of young enlisted
decoys under the command of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to initiate a
search for "perverts" at the Newport Naval Training Station. 20 sailors
and 16 civilians are arrested.
1920-1935- New York City: The Harlem Renaissance included gay works by
Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey,
Alain Locke, Bruce Nugent, and Ethel Waters.
1924- Illinois: Henry Gerber helps found the Society for Human Rights
in Illinois, the first homosexual rights organization. They publish
Friendship & Freedom.
1926- Humphrey Bogart's wife Helen Menken stars in the lesbian play,
The Captive. William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper magnate, uses the
play to promote intolerance. The Captive is raided and shut down.
1927- Wade "Padlock" Law enacted to prevent homosexual depictions on
Broadway, one of its first victims is The Captive.
- Mae West writes the play The Drag, the first gay male play that
debuts in Connecticut.
1929- New York City: Publisher Covici-Friede convicted of obscenity for
publishing Radclyffe Hall's lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness.
Conviction is appealed and then overturned.
1930- Hollywood's Motion Picture Production Code prohibits homosexual
references in any of its motion pictures. This code is supported by the
Catholic-led Legion for Decency.
"Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they
are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, 'Who'd you call a
*****?'" -- Jon Stewart
"My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out
there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share." -- Rita Mae
Brown, Venus Envy
Mary to her boy Jesus:
"I know you lean to magic, walking on water, wine from water, etc.. But
I have never heard you mention getting laid.
"People are talking about you and those twelve guys you run with. Is
there something you want to tell your mom?"
MORE COMING SOON...
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