{"id":7752,"date":"2005-08-22T18:59:53","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T01:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/08\/22\/what-makes-people-gay.html"},"modified":"2005-08-22T18:59:53","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T01:59:53","slug":"what_makes_peop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/22\/what_makes_peop.html","title":{"rendered":"What makes people gay?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary of the latest science on the matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While confessing to an academic interest in the matter, the Bigger, Unstated Question (“Is it a choice, or is it a compulsion?”<\/em>) gets a huge “Who cares?” from me, at least insofar as folks seem so eager to either make it an excusable genetic hardwiring or a voluntary delving into blasphemous sin. Frankly, claiming it’s the way one’s brain is designed seems a feeble justification to righteousness, and I conversely find claims of homosexuality as an evil and debauched choice both unconvincing and more, to my mind, a matter of the “ick” factor than an unassailable theological position, let alone good science.<\/p>\n

In other words, I sympathize with those who want to discover the origins of their sexuality for themselves, or for scientific reasons — but not with it being used as the as-yet-ill-informed grist for socio-theo-political posturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summary of the latest science on the matter. While confessing to an academic interest in the matter, the Bigger, Unstated Question (“Is it a choice, or is it a compulsion?”)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-stuff","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13406,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/29\/creation_science_for_dumm.html","url_meta":{"origin":7752,"position":0},"title":"Creation Science for Dummies","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 29-Dec-08 1:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A visit to The Creation Museum and the wonders seen there.\u00a0 Um ... yeah, don't think I'm going to go out of my way to visit. 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