Source: http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8802
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April 38 10.17.08 at 11:21 am
At VirtueOnline - News, dated 28/8/5,
A series of homosexual — not heterosexual — activists are quoted who assert that there is no gay gene; that it is a life-style choice. It's nice to get the word from those who live it.From the article by by Bill Muehlenberg:
The tendency is to deny choice, to make it appear that homosexuals cannot help it, and to argue that any criticism of the gay lifestyle is as silly as criticism of being left-handed or red-haired. And this has been a deliberate strategy by homosexual activists. They have done a very good job to convince a gullible public that homosexuals are born that way and cannot change.
Among a number of homosexual activists quoted, Australian activist and Latrobe University lecturer, Dennis Altman, wrote in 1986: " 'To be Haitian or a hemophiliac is determined at birth, but being gay is an identity that is socially determined and involves personal choice.' "
Another Australian gay activist comments, "I think the idea that sexuality is genetic is crap. There is absolutely no evidence for it at the moment, and I think it is unhealthy that people want to embrace this idea. It does reflect a desire to say, 'it's not our fault', as a way of deflecting our critics. We have achieved what we have achieved by defiance, not by concessions."
There is no gay gene. And therefore no legitimacy in the demand that gays and lesbians be treated as some sort of predetermined, ethnic group.#
Added quote from same online article:"And a leading Australian feminist and lesbian has also made it clear that choice is a major component of the lifestyle. Melbourne University academic Sheila Jeffreys became a feminist in her twenties, when she was involved in "perfectly good" relationships with men. She then decided to become a lesbian: "At the time," she says, we "made the decision to become political lesbians, as we called it.""She says that "you can learn to be heterosexual and you can learn to be lesbian". When challenged by an interviewer that sexuality is more innate than that, she continues, "I don't think there's anything natural about sexuality; you do learn it. And you can unlearn it, go in a different direction, change it." She says that her own experience proves this, as does that of many other women who decided to switch to lesbianism in the '70s."
