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Lesbian Study Misreported
by Steve Jordahl
Headlines tout a new study reaveals a biological link to homosexuality, but the author says her research is being taken out of context.
A Swedish team claims that lesbian brains react differently to the smell of pheromones than do the brains of straight women. Is this the “gay gene” activists have been waiting for? Grove City College Psychologist Warren Throckmorton responds.
“This study has nothing to say about the cause of that response. It has nothing to say about how those findings got the way they did.”
Throckmorton says the differences could be a conditioned response. But an AP reporter wrote “It’s a finding that adds weight to the idea that homosexuality has a physical underpinning and is not learned behavior.” To that statement, study author Ivanka Savic replied, “This is incorrect and not stated in the paper.”
“The most charitable explanation is that he simply didn’t understand it.”
Throckmorton says it’s more likely the media was looking for a simple answer like, ‘You’re born that way.’ Exodus International (edit - Membership Director) Randy Thomas is used to the media bias.
“What usually happens is that the media spins it into some sort of social-political statement, instead of actually looking at the science that is going on.”
The study does open the possibility that homosexuality has a biological component.
“Either way, as a former homosexual, I know that my genes are not tyrannical over me. Even if it were proven to be genetic, I am free in Christ.”
At this point, science is a long way from that proof.
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