New study questions Born This Way narrative

Last updated on: September 7, 2016 at 8:38 am by Dave Griffey

New study questions Born This Way narrative 2016-09-07T07:42:48-04:00 Dave Griffey

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This might be tough to accept, but the popular idea that everyone is ‘born this way’ relative to our sexual orientation might not be as scientifically sound as we would like to think. It’s never been ‘proven’ by science. If you go to a respectable site, such as the American Psychiatric Association, for information about sexual orientation and look for an answer to the question ‘why do people have certain sexual orientations’, you end up with some variation of ‘there is no consensus, but most people experience little or no sense of choice.’ Most people? Little or no sense of choice? The fact that one of the most vocal advocates for our current understanding of LGBT issues says something along the lines of ‘we don’t know, but they seem to think they can’t help it’ isn’t proof.

It certainly isn’t strong enough evidence to warrant turning on its head everything we’ve understood about human sexuality, human nature, and the role of marriage in society for the last 2000 years. Even if we think it is, we certainly can’t use such evidence to justify punishing people who question the popular assumption, or who don’t want to be forced to compromise the right to exercise their religious values.

With suggestions that there could be a hole in the Gaga theory, it should never have come to where it is today, with people and institutions being punished for rejecting what is not demonstrated. Now we have a new study further questioning the assumption behind much of the push to compromise liberty and religious freedom in the name of tolerance.

Oh, one more thing. I get that the actual journal in question is affiliated with a social conservative group. If the scientific community was in one voice proclaiming that we have proven people are ‘born this way’, then I can see some skepticism. But in honesty, this is merely putting out in study form what organizations such as the APA say in the first place, that when it comes to why people are this way or that, there is no consensus.

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