Gay Cure MERGED

A few years ago a lot of suspicious 'Scientific evidence' started being tossed about suggesting that people are actually 'Born Gay'.
The idea has been extremely popular and most all of the 'Gay Orgs' and self-appointed reps are very much touting this as the unofficial position to be taken.
Gays and Lesbians are really a sort of 'type of human' in the sense of a third and fourth Gender. (so to speak).

What if we do find and isolate a 'Gay Gene'?
With all the advancements in DNA and the Human Genome Project maybe we do find ourselves asking:

Do you then cure it?

Presuming some gene therapy can be perfected you have two possibilities:
- Expecting Parents could choose to have the child 'innoculated' beforehand and hence guaranteeing a 'Hetero' baby.

- People who are already born 'a gay' might be able to receive some sort of genetic threapy which would counter or 'cure' the gay genes in them which cause them to want to have gay sex etc.

Keep in mind - if our hypothetical unborn baby has the gay genes removed before birth (and puberty) then its not gonna change anything for them in the sense they will simply understand that they are Hetero is all.
They wont know any different anyways.

Would you do it?
If not - why?

Comments?

 

I say no. I have no comment. The notion is ridiculous. Being heterosexual is not the big bargain in life.

 

The world's already overpopulated as is.

Let queers be queers, I say. They don't make babies.

 

you know tool, it can be said that that is exactly the cause.

It is theorized that when a species becomes overpopulated
that more and more will be born homosexual to stop the
expansion.

Besides, if you can be born hetero, why cant you be born homo?

Sex is sex and love is love, let it be.

 

I say no as well.

If I were suddenly to be "cured" of my homosexuality, I would lose a part of myself that I felt I had a strong grasp on. I accept it, and I'm not about to change everything to fit the "norm".

 

Spartans were gay, i dont think theres was a overpopulated problem in greece 2.400 years ago.

 

agreed.

 

What's to 'cure'?

 

I haven't seen anything to indicate that China or India have been giving birth to increasingly gay babies?
A country like Canada with a rather low population density has a fair amount of homosexuals per capita.

The point is that IF the truth is that people are 'born gay' then there might be a way to reverse it. Eliminate it.
Given that the child would not 'know any better' - then it seems it would be ideal if they were given the best possible scenario of heterosexuality.
If its true that homosexuality is a burden on the individual?

A good question on using the 'gay gene' to create gay children.
Would you choose that option?
In the near future maybe it will be possible to decide to add the gay gene to an otherwise heterosexual baby?

What about it?

 

I don't understand the point of this thread.. Why would anyone change the dna of their child. Let them be who they are supposed to be; As "god" intended.

 

same idiots who circumcise them "sort of the same mentality group" i think they are the ones who needs to be eliminated from the gene pools.

 

Only because of society.

If there were a "cure" for being black, would people take it?

sounds fucked up huh.

"but what if its a burden to be black"

see?

dont "cure" people, accept them.

 

I completely agree with what hipunk said in another thread:

What we need is not a cure for homosexuality but for homophobia.

Lol, if scientists found a homophobia gene, would you manipulate your child's DNA in order prevent it from becoming a homophobe?

 

What will I think be interesting will be the abortion question. Long before there is a "cure" (which I am against) there will be an in vitro test to determine if a child is gay before birth. That will make for some interesting changes in position. Will all the good little Christians become pro abortion? Will our position change to anti abortion? Something to think about.

 

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Yeah, I had two anoles, Fred and George, that would always fuck each other.

But I think they were just lonely.

 

And I don't think it's so much a gene as a personality trait... eh.. for lack of a better term. It's just how you roll. Not your genes.

 

Worked for Michael Jackson.

The gay community doesn't want to be cured, it just wants to be left alone. Live and let live.

 

LOL guess it did huh Raven.

Its a shame that its the straight white right that
are the standard by which the world is judged.

I am pagan, bi, and polyamorous, maybe i need a cure too =)

 

1. The "gay" gene has not been found, just as the "left handedness" gene has not been found.

2. If it is found it would have to be determined that it is a defective gene in order for it to be "repaired", just as "left handedness" would have to be discovered to be caused by a defective gene in order for it to be repaired.

3. It is unlikely that the "gay gene" is defective. Since scientists consider it unethical to alter non-defective genes in a human being, like eye color for instance, it is unlikely that anyone but a Nazi would want to change the "gay gene" of an infant.

4. You're "hypothetical" question is preposterous and self defeating. I wish you wouldn't feed into folks self loathing. Why don't you just come out with what ever it is you want to say about gay ppl rather then try to shroud it in some kind of mumbo jumbo?

Listen, God made me gay. I ain't gunna fool with His perfection.

p. s. Like rain_in_summer said, If there was one gene that I wish would be cured it would be the assholeness gene; then there wouldn't be any homophobia and this conversation would be moot.

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