This, to me, is another excuse to justify ones choice.  Some scientific
studies will remain a theory because of the blinders they apply to
justify their research.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Borgman [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 11:22 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Choice or Biology


From the 11/30 issue of the Indianapolis star, article by Ronald Kotulak
of
the Chicago Tribune.  I will print excerpts here, I'm sure someone can
find
the article online.

"university of Chicago scientists have used high-tech imaging to confirm
that the hypothalamus - sex center of the brain - functions differently
in
gay men than in heterosexual men"

"Scientists have searched for ways to determine whether sexual
preference is
a matter of choice or biology.  Still, they have failed to develop
convincing evidence one way or the other.   Genes once touted as
prompting
homosexuality, for example, have fizzled out, and studies of hormonal
influences during fetal development are inconclusive."

It goes on to indicate that the UOC scientists are theorizing that
homosexuality has multiple development pathways.  They presented a paper
at
the annual meeting of the society for Neuroscience in New Orleans.

It also indicates that a grand total of 8 straight men, and 8 queer men,
were used in the 'positron emission tomography" to monitor the
neurochemical
function of the hypothalamus.  This is where their results were drawn
from.
No women were tested at all.

They are trying to say that gay people are 'hard-wired' based on the
activity of the hypothalamus.  What I am trying to find out, is how you
can
determine if the hypothalamus activity is a result of homosexual
activity,
or was different at the outset....and if different, did it 'cause' it..



-----Original Message-----
From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 1:46 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Choice or Biology


One person, apparently a devout church-going Protestant, wrote and asked
me
(in part) privately the following. I'm going to respond publicly:

> do you have some sources for this information that this condition is
> biological?

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