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Is Being Gay in Your DNA? Scientists Keep Trying to Find a Genetic Basis for Sexual Orientation

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From Boston Review: Know Thy Futurist. It’s an attempt to classify and analyze various types of futurism, in much the same way that a Jack Chick tract could be described as “an attempt to classify and analyze various types of religion”. I have more disagreements with it than can fit in a blog

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Being gay could be in the DNA. Scientists have found two stretches of DNA linked to homosexuality in men. The confirmation of the existence of a ‘gay gene’ or genes will strengthen arguments that homosexuality is a matter of biology, rather than choice.

Dawn of the designer babies with THREE parents and no hereditary diseases. By Fiona Macrae for the Daily Mail Updated: 05:02 EDT, 15 April 2010

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