Bulletins
IS HOMOSEXUALITY CAUSED BY GENETICS?
In his book, Born Gay?, Dr. John Tay, clinical geneticist and former head of the Division of Human Genetics at the National University of Singapore, talks about the contrast in opinion between the public and the scientific community, on whether gays are born this way. He noted how the public's popular belief stems from how the media played up the early scientific studies in the 1990s on brain structures, twin studies, and the Xq28 gene. These studies have in fact been heavily criticized by fellow professionals to be flawed and biased. It must be noted, too, that other than the media headlines, the very same researchers of these studies have themselves confessed that they have not found anything genetic that is deterministic of the homosexual orientation.
Dr. Tay gave insight to the question of whether gays are born that way and they cannot change by explaining what genes really do to us: "The effects of genes on behavior are very indirect because genes make proteins, not preferences. The scientific truth is that our genes do not force us into anything. Genes are responsible for an indirect influence, but on average, they do not force people into homosexuality. The startling conclusion is that genetic factors are much less important than environmental ones in the causation of homosexuals. On this basis, the claim by homosexuals that 'I am born that way, so I cannot change' is simply not true."
-via Homosexuality and Science, cited in Words of Life, Feb. 25, 2024, Vol. 16, No. 8
God's word says:
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God
(1 Corinthians 6:9-11).
(Taken from Lenexa Edifier, edited by Jim Stauffer; Scripture quotes are from the NKJV)
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