... them perceive sexual orientation. Offering people, this choice of sexual orientation does not mean (as some church people insist) that we would be opening the door to legalizing bestiality, rape, exploitation of minors, etc. Homosexuals are not asking to engage in polygamy, incest, or bestiality. They are simply asking to engage in monogamous non-incestuous relationships with people ... there is no basis on which to assume that a parental homosexual orientation will increase likelihood of or induce a homosexual orientation in the child." American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry...

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... begin to cause them to feel shame, lonliness, and rejection. The Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Youth Suicide discovered that "suicide is the leading cause of death among gay male, lesbian, bisexual, and transsexual youth" (Blumenfeld, 88.) To ease their depression, they sometimes turn to suicide, and often turn to drugs, alcohol, and promiscuousness. A study found that ... deems it impossible for a homosexual to be unnatural (Hartinger, 61). Homosexuality is not comparable to other chosen courses of sexual action. Says Brent Hartinger, "Unlike specific behaviors of, say rape ...

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... . For an inventory of some of the most frivolous lawsuits see the Stella Awards.) (1) These rhetorical questions can also be worded around a little differently to discuss the topic of the "gay" gene. Now scientists are trying to tell us the reason why people are homosexual is that they are carriers of the gene and they were predisposed to become a homosexual. Where ... my argument with these studies comes in is that many people say they are homosexual but are not carriers of the "gay" gene, or some people might be exemplary, upstanding citizens who have never broken a law in their life b...

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