The CotoBuzz Journal
Community Journalism, Newsletters and Blogs Covering South Orange County, CA
The CotoBuzz Journal is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) and NAHJ
SEPTEMBER 2007 ISSUE
We do not make jokes, we simply watch the LA Times, the Orange County Register and the Coto de Caza Board of directors and report the facts!
Is GLBT a Character, Flaw, or a Function of Genetic Composition?
Not too outlandish to conclude that the promotion of the GLBT lifestyle without an abstinence component is socially irresponsible
August 23, 2007
Is the predilection
for the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender life style an
indication of a flawed character, or a function of
genetic composition?
“Researchers
from the Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Research
Institute, Northwestern University, University of
Chicago, and University of Illinois at Chicago are
searching for genes that influence male sexual
orientation” reads the introduction to the Molecular
Genetic Study of Sexual Orientation
(MGSSO
website. The
MGSSO is the most extensive study yet to search for a
genetic basis for homosexuality and may provide clues
to the questions previously asked – or will it?
Consider
the debate over the evil twins, Abortion and
Murder: JOHN
J. DONOHUE III from the Yale Law School;
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and STEVEN
D. LEVITT from the
University of Chicago; National Bureau of
Economic Research (NBER); American Bar Foundation
claim in their The
Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime paper to
“…offer evidence that legalized abortion has
contributed significantly to recent crime reductions.
Crime began to fall roughly 18 years after abortion
legalization”, while Steve
Sailer
interprets the fact
that the age group 14-17, that started enjoying the
crime-stopping benefits of abortion rights in 1987 or
so, responded to this improvement by going on a
significant murder spree. So is the incidence of the
Evil Twins a cause-and-effect issue, or is there a
genetic basis for murder?
What about Alcoholism, or Fraud?
The
results of the MGSSO “ may ignite controversy, the
researchers acknowledge, both by providing ammunition
in the raging cultural war over homosexuality and by
raising fears about ethically questionable
applications like genetic profiling and prenatal
testing” reports August 12, 2007 issue of the Chicago EDGE
Boston Contributor Kilian Melloy writes in the Monday Aug
13, 2007 issue The MGSSO “…is a scientific
inquiry into what gays and naturalists already know,
but which religious leaders and social conservatives
don’t necessarily want to hear: that a certain
percentage of all animal forms of life are attracted
sexually to members of their own gender, that it’s
not a matter of conduct but rather an innate
characteristic--and that while it may constitute a
variation, it’s not a pathology”
In the Politically Correct realm,
alternative terms are used to minimize a
transgression, for example “having an affair”,
over fornication.
Some say that the use of the term :having an
affair” not only condones the act, but encourages
it.
Consider the battle between Gay rights
activists and Mayor Jim Naugle:
"We
are encouraging people to mail either a roll or
several sheets of toilet paper to the mayor at City
Hall to help him to wipe his dirty mind clean,"
said Brian Winfield, spokesman for Equality Florida, a
gay rights organization that helped start a toilet
paper protest after
Mayor Naugle's comments in a July 4 article in
the South Florida Sun-Sentinel about the city's plan
to buy a $250,000 self-cleaning robotic toilet for
beachgoers. The device could be programmed with a time
limit, after which the door would fly open. In the
article, Naugle was quoted as saying the toilet could
prevent "homosexual activity" that has
occurred at other public restrooms.
Mayor Jim Naugle’s cited his concern that
Fort Lauderdale is ranked number third in Highest annual AIDS rates (number of new reported
cases per
100,000 population), just behind New York and Miami
(echoes reports by the Body
Health Resources Corporation) as the motivation
behind his efforts to reduce high-risk practices in his city.
Responding to the question, What advice can one give to the
world?, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger writes in his book
Values in times of upheaval: “The
inviolability of man ought to be an unassailed pillar
of ethical regulations…I should like to add that
this must be linked to respect for the origin of man
and the sexual union of man an woman:
main may not become a product, he may not be
produced, but only begotten.
An this is why the one of the constant elements
of every human society is the protection of the
special dignity of the fellowship of man and woman on
which the future of the human race depends”
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