homosexuality

Yesterday, on a lengthy car ride, I was involved in a discussion concerning the biblical position on homosexuality. The conversation eventually turned to the topic of genetics and whether or not our sexual preference is predetermined by our biology or dictated by one's experiences. My basic...

Quite a touching story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8081829.stm All the best to them, hope it all works out.

A law proposed in Alberta and supported by the Education Minister would require schools to notify parents in advance of "subject-matter that deals explicitly with religion, sexuality or sexual orientation,". The bill, if passed, would allow parents to ask that their children be excused from...

Mike Jones, the gay masseur who outed Ted Haggard's gay relationship and meth usage, wrote a letter to him, which was in turn read on Oprah and will air next week. Jones wrote: Source with full story The near last line was in reference to HBO's The Trials of Ted Haggard, which will air...

First the Pope finally admits it was wrong to persecute Galileo: I guess he was warming us up for hatin' on gays:

I wasn't sure whether this should go in Science or Social Issues. I've been trying to dig up something on this strictly for information's sake with respect to a research paper, but I haven't found anything that has the specific answers I'm looking for. My two questions: Why was homosexuality...

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08030703.html Apparently the word has been around since at least 2006 when Václav Klaus mentioned it in a short speech... What a lovely way to hate the sin and love the sinner; or more precisely, to hate the sin and the sinner without actually saying...

Here's why, even though homosexuality is genetic and homosexuals can't reproduce, evolution hasn't eliminated it. http://www.slate.com/id/2194232/

Extreme stuff like this always makes me curious; http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c040.html Is this as ********ty as I think?

http://www.usmagazine.com/michael_stipe Michael Stipe is gay? :eek: But how can this be? No, kidding aside, although the idea is good and I guess it can help some people but wasn't it obvious like ever since the eighties? Anybody seen the video Pop Song 89? I mean Elton John, KD Lang...

Disclaimer: I support gay and lesbian rights and all that jah. Something I've had religious folks tell me is that Homosexuals are bad because they're useless : IE they can't make babies, thus they can't continue life. Well, while I obviously think this is a load of crap, I retort: Surely...

Why is homosexuality wrong? We all know what gays are and what they do. All of God’s laws are responses to a victim of some sort. The one lied to is deceived. The one who is killed is deprived of life. The one stolen from looses his goods. In the case of homosexuals there does not appear to be a...

I just watched this gem of a movie from the AmazingAtheist. Basically, it's an argument he employs against the 'God has a reason to commit genocide'-excuse from the fundies justifying the Great Flood, the sacking of Jericho, and so on. He advises that you employ it, quote, when you're arguing...

I've been thinking quite a bit about the issue lately. I used to be against it (even though I'm a Liberal Atheist) just on the grounds that it didn't seem right. But I recently changed my mind (I seem to generally be drifting further to the left) because I now think it's a complete non-issue. I...

Second Statement of the Lex Vitae «All that oppose to the natural EVOLUTION of the things, produces an antithesis of greater force, something that usually called REVOLUTION» The Sexual Revolution untied with frenetic rhythm at the beginning of Century XIX, for many is enough singular...

Help refute an anti-gay essay "Beyond Soddom and Gammorah" masquerading as science This is my first thread (and one of my first posts), so I apologize about not being able to link directly. The author of the piece in question has been a subject of a thread on this website before, read here...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6507971.stm Hopefully someone rips it to YouTube...

http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/furor-over-baptists-gay-baby-article/20070315023809990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001 Article is about a Baptist seminarian who postulates that if a biological foundation for homosexuality could be proven...than development of a treatment in the womb to change...

As with everything else I know you all have been waiting with bated breath for my take on the subject. My feeling is this - the reason there is so much hysteria over homosexuality is we still harbor (here in the US) a huge amount of Victorian hysteria over sexuality itself. I realize I am not...

It seems to me that there are two different definitions of "homosexuality". Normal psychology: a general tendency towards affective, sexual, etc attraction towards people of your own gender Christians et al: having sex with people of your own gender So my question is this: Suppose that...

Let me say right at the beginning that I am not homophobic. Far from it, in fact. This question comes up from reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins recently. In it, he puts forth the hypothesis that a tendency for religion developed from an evolutionary need. He suggests that young...

Copied from another thread where it was borderline off-topic and got lost: http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8074843 A germinating challenge to the view that homosexually is an abberation of no benefit to a species. Unfortunately not well developed in this article...

I'm giving a speech on the boy scouts intolerance of Atheist and Homosexuals, I'm trying to find websites to cite certain information. 1. Does anyone know a study or anything showing what Career has the most child molestion (I'm hoping it's church related but still does anyone know one?) 2. Does...

http://www.senselessplanet.com/soyhomo.htm A saucy little piece, I think you'll find.

I've been having this argument with my mother. She states that, although she fully acknowledges that homosexuals are fine people, she is absolutely revolted at the thought of them even kissing, much less having sex, where she is not revolted at the thought of a man and woman kissing/having sex...

A young man has been expelled from a church-based college in Kentucky. Apparently, there was no official notice that homosexuality was a violation of college policy (based on church teachings) for the man's first two years of attendance at the school. The circumstances of his dismissal seem to...

I came across some unusual statistics recently from the Center for Disease Control government website: "In the United States, HIV and AIDS have had a tremendous effect on men who have sex with men (MSM). MSM accounted for approximately two thirds of all HIV infections among men in 2003"...

I have been googling for a little while and I was wondering if anyone found any interesting scientific sites that explained the biology of homosexuality. I am just curious if it could be a "natural" form of population control. Also I was wondering if there has been any studies about why...

I'm not sure what to make of this article. It claims that gays are created in the womb when the "gay genes" block testosterone from crossing the brain/body barrier. The site does not seem to be an Onionesque parody site, and if it is not, the researchers do have credentials, but still.... It...

I am in the middle of a study to discover exactly what the Bible teaches about homosexuality. This is what I've discovered so far: The Bible does not teach anything about homosexuality. Homosexuality, which affects a person's entire personality and outlook, is a modern concept. The Bible does...