# Is there a such thing a the "gay gene"? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 25, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292 "2000-10-25T19:21:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![Rook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Rook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rook)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/361 "2000-11-04T04:15:42Z")
I told you i wrong about a few things and also said i was enlightened about some info. But the fact is that there is no concrete proof that homosexuality completely genetic and restricts you from any other sexual preference. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/362 "2000-11-04T04:17:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rook \* > \*\*I told you i wrong about a few things and also said i was enlightened about some info. But the fact is that there is no concrete proof that homosexuality completely genetic and restricts you from any other sexual preference. \*\* Conversely, there is no proof that heterosexuality is the default and that restricts you from any other sexual preference. ---
**Author:** ![Rook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Rook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rook)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/363 "2000-11-04T04:18:26Z")
Obviously, JUST LIKE MORALITY, you can mold the bibles translation to mean just about ANYTHING. So when i explain my view of what the Bible means in some places, other people have different ideas. But the difference is i read them and addressed many of them without getting hostile ---
**Author:** ![Rook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Rook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rook)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/364 "2000-11-04T04:22:43Z")
“Conversely, there is no proof that heterosexuality is the default…………” WOW! When I go back to the default on my computer……it’s goes to the original set-up. If homosexuality was the original “set-up” your ass wouldn’t be here. So what the hell are you talking about??? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/365 "2000-11-04T04:24:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rook \* > \*\*“Conversely, there is no proof that heterosexuality is the default…………” > > WOW! When I go back to the default on my computer……it’s goes to the original set-up. If homosexuality was the original “set-up” your ass wouldn’t be here. So what the hell are you talking about??? > \*\* If heterosexuality was my default, I would have had sex with women at some point. I never have, so heterosexuality is not my default. You are using flawed logic. ---
**Author:** ![Rook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Rook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rook)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/366 "2000-11-04T04:24:43Z")
It’s those type of comments that just don’t make ANY sense to me and i think you know why ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/367 "2000-11-04T04:26:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rook \* > \*\*Obviously, JUST LIKE MORALITY, you can mold the bibles translation to mean just about ANYTHING. So when i explain my view of what the Bible means in some places, other people have different ideas. But the difference is i read them and addressed many of them without getting hostile \*\* Without getting hostile? Bullshit. Perhaps we should say BOY again and see you spit blood, hypocrite. Say anything you want, it will not make you right. You keep saying the same thing over and over again, but you say nothing that supports you, and everything else you do say shows how narrowminded and prejudiced you are. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/368 "2000-11-04T04:27:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rook \* > \*\*It’s those type of comments that just don’t make ANY sense to me and i think you know why \*\* Because you’re a narrow minded pigfucking moron who refuses to consider any other point of view than his own? ---
**Author:** ![Rook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Rook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rook)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/369 "2000-11-04T04:31:17Z")
“If heterosexuality was my default……” So are you talking about mankind or just YOU? Obviously it’s by default for mankind CORRECT?! ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/370 "2000-11-04T04:32:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rook \* > \*\*“If heterosexuality was my default……” > > So are you talking about mankind or just YOU? Obviously it’s by default for mankind CORRECT?! > \*\* Not necessarily, and neither or us, nor anyone else has the answer to that. ---
**Author:** ![Rook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Rook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rook)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/371 "2000-11-04T04:35:47Z")
can i know how you view the quote “men shall not lie with men”? Or are you going to change the subject to my mom having sex with a donkey or something? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/372 "2000-11-04T04:38:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rook \* > \*\*can i know how you view the quote “men shall not lie with men”? Or are you going to change the subject to my mom having sex with a donkey or something? \*\* I see it as a bunch of followers of Yahweh who had prejudices wrote that in the Bible to support their narrowminded hatred. Christianity is also not the default. ---
**Author:** ![Rook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Rook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rook)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/373 "2000-11-04T04:40:31Z")
So then you don’t believe in the bible??? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/374 "2000-11-04T04:44:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rook \* > \*\*So then you don’t believe in the bible??? \*\* No, I don’t. One cannot experience divinity or learn of divinity through a book, only through direct experience. ---
**Author:** ![Rook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Rook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rook)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/375 "2000-11-04T04:47:30Z")
Quote from MC Scratch Knee: “I never said that everyone in S&G were rapists……” I thought the reason the city was destroyed was because they were forcing homosexual sex. ISN’T THAT RAPE?! Why did God destroy EVERYONE IN THE CITY IF EVERYONE WASN’T COMMITING RAPE!!! I’ll tell you why……because they were SODOMITES ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/376 "2000-11-04T04:49:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rook \* > \*\*Quote from MC Scratch Knee: > “I never said that everyone in S&G were rapists……” > > I thought the reason the city was destroyed was because they were forcing homosexual sex. ISN’T THAT RAPE?! > > Why did God destroy EVERYONE IN THE CITY IF EVERYONE WASN’T COMMITING RAPE!!! I’ll tell you why……because they were SODOMITES > \*\* And thus you show your bigotry. Think about all the black people who were dumped off of slave ships so as not to get caught… was that God’s work as well? How about all the KKK members who said that they were carrying out God’s work in murdering black people? ---
**Author:** ![Rook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Rook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rook)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/377 "2000-11-04T04:52:27Z")
Thank You. That was one of the few straight answers I’ve received through this entire threat. Now another question. Do your feel that a homosexual who does believe in the bible is a hypocrite? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/378 "2000-11-04T04:54:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rook \* > \*\*Thank You. That was one of the few straight answers I’ve received through this entire threat. Now another question. Do your feel that a homosexual who does believe in the bible is a hypocrite? \*\* To a point. Though I think the Bible was written by men and not by a deity or a deity speaking through men, so the biases in it are very much a product of their time and still affect ours. ---
**Author:** ![Rook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Rook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rook)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/379 "2000-11-04T04:59:14Z")
Hastur- the bible doesn’t say, “man shall not be black” - it’s really not that simple to define racist from the bible even though I’m sure many delusional people have. But the bible seems extremely clear when it comes to homosexuality. In S&G, Abraham asked God if he would save the city if 1 good man was there. God said yes, then destroyed the city. So what does that mean to you? To me, it meant that there was no good people in the city and thanks to MC Scratch Knees response of not everyone in S&G were rapist……that means the only logical reason EVERYONE was destroyed was because of homosexuality. That’s what I personally get out of it. How else can you decipher it? ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292/380 "2000-11-04T05:01:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rook \* > \*\*Hastur- the bible doesn’t say, “man shall not be black” - it’s really not that simple to define racist from the bible even though I’m sure many delusional people have. But the bible seems extremely clear when it comes to homosexuality. In S&G, Abraham asked God if he would save the city if 1 good man was there. God said yes, then destroyed the city. So what does that mean to you? To me, it meant that there was no good people in the city and thanks to MC Scratch Knees response of not everyone in S&G were rapist……that means the only logical reason EVERYONE was destroyed was because of homosexuality. That’s what I personally get out of it. How else can you decipher it? > \*\* 1. This is not to say it really happened, it very well could just be a cautionary tale 2. As someone else pointed out… the problem was not homosexuality but rudeness and inhospitability. They were destroyed for being bad hosts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-a-such-thing-a-the-gay-gene/38292.md?page=20)