Quote Originally Posted by Dream of the iris
"Being gay is no more a "genetic disorder" than being born with blue eyes, or blonde hair.

It's a hidden genetic trait that aids in population control (imagine how many ppl there'd be in the world today if all homosexuals in history had reproduced), and is merely one in a countless ways our species, and many others species, keep up it's variety."

First off vej 33 I'd like to thank you for your contribution. Rather than saying something retarded you've actually contributed an interesting counter argument. Well here's my counter argument to your statement above....If being gay was a new phenomenom comming into existance with the rising population, then I would say this is very likely to be a trait but because being gay has been around for thousands of years it discredits the notion of being a population controller. Up until recently there has been no need for a population control because other events such as climactic changes, famines, diseases from lack of sanitation and the countless amount of wars has kept previous generations under control. Though being gay is just as threatening as being brunnette or blond it is still a genetic trait that serves absolutely no purpose whatsoever much like color blindness.

I appreciate your willingness to actually discuss this rationally. It's hard to find people who want to debate homosexuality through a scientific lense in both corners. Usually I'm up against Creationists. You bring up good points. I guess when it comes down to it, every variation in nature can be seen as a "genetic disorder". Hypothetically, if the first two people to ever reproduce (i want to stress that I am not referring to Adam, Eve, or any religious archetype of the like) both had brown hair, only a genetic mutation of cells could have caused blonde hair. That mutation would get passed onward, until years later it was just another variation.

I guess calling homsexualaity a genetic disorder is merely semantics. Maybe at one time it was truely a genetic disorder, a mutation, but now, like blonde hair, it is merely one of the many variaties.

The thing that makes me sad is that I think we will just never know... even if there is a gene found that causes homosexuality (or even proof that it is NOT a gene) there's just no way to go back in time and link it to any mutant cause.