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ilikeverin
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« on: March 20, 2012, 12:31:15 PM »

Let's assume that homosexuality is -at least in part- genetically based.  Which it probably is -we're merely awaiting conclusive scientific evidence to prove it.

If you find that your future son and/or daughter has the 'gay gene', what would you do? 



There will never, ever be a single gene which would indicate with 100% certainty that someone would be gay.  According to 23andMe, I have 23 genetic variants (NOTE: "genetic variants", not "genes"; we all have the gay genes, in all likelihood, we just don't all have the gay variants of those genes) which put me at a higher risk for a variety of diseases that I don't have; just because I have the variant doesn't mean I have the disorder.  The current response, regardless of religious orientation, is here to say that having the gene doesn't actually tell you much at all about what your child will be like besides making it a higher probability event.  Even for "slam dunks" like Down Syndrome, sickle-cell, and so on and so forth are never as slam dunky as they seem, because the genome is a weird and wonderfully complex thing (though that's not to say they're not so close to 100% that they essentially can be treated as such).
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