08-15-2004, 01:23 PM
NOTE: Please dont bother telling me how whatever psyciatric organization has delared it not a mental defect - they voted on that. Anything you vote on is an opinion and not backed up by fact.
In my opinion being gay is a mildly harmful mental defect, probabely with both genetic and envirmental causes.
The main negative effect is that it inhibits(not prohibits) procreation.
Its not unlike having only one hand from the perspective of how your genes carry on in the gene pool.
Some people suggest that there is a gene which in males that causes homosexuality thus decreasing a males chancees of reproducing increase while in females chances of reproduction.
This is logical from a population genetics standpoint. But making special social provisions for this isnt logical, especially seince it is likely that not all homosexuallity has such an origen.
In my opinion being gay is a mildly harmful mental defect, probabely with both genetic and envirmental causes.
The main negative effect is that it inhibits(not prohibits) procreation.
Its not unlike having only one hand from the perspective of how your genes carry on in the gene pool.
Some people suggest that there is a gene which in males that causes homosexuality thus decreasing a males chancees of reproducing increase while in females chances of reproduction.
This is logical from a population genetics standpoint. But making special social provisions for this isnt logical, especially seince it is likely that not all homosexuallity has such an origen.