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64. "if it was a proven disease"
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it would make this discussion interesting...maybe we'd arguing whether to allow gay people to keep having gay sex or prevent them from having sex and giving them forced treatment.
gayness might be genetic. but then aren't some diseases heridtary anyway?
i'm just reaching here...but the thing is even we did find the "gay" gene and a way to "treat" it, i don't think the gay community would take kindly to the issue. Finding out that your lifestyle is a disease could be quite a shocking revelation.
Just for clarification if I recall correctly, the argument for "gayness" as a disease goes something like this:

"Chemical imbalances in the brain can cause a man to compulsively wash his hands 40 times a day or to become schitzophrenic. In either case, a mixture of psychology and medicine are used to treat it or at least curb its worse mainfestations. What if being gay could be similarly treated?"

These are not the exact words but I thought about this and I have no way of strongly refuting the logic. At fist I thought this argument implies that maybe we can arbitrarily throw the disease label at a lot of things. and then I thought if something was perfectly normal(a good majority of the population)
then it would not have to be treated in the first place.
My second argument was that homosexuality could not be a disease because diseases usually have an underlying health consequence or effect on the body. But homosexuality is harmless, right?
Possibly...but one could argue (like chillin above) that the consequence of homosexuality is the inability to reproduce naturally. Reproduction is part of the human life cycle.

Besides the obvious, "But that's just ridiculous", is there a clear cut way to refute this logic or should we at least entertain the possibility?


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Why No Response? [View all] , Chike, Sat Apr-21-01 06:30 AM
 
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I heard dat!
Apr 21st 2001
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Apr 21st 2001
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Apr 23rd 2001
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Apr 23rd 2001
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that's what I was thinking n/m
Apr 23rd 2001
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Apr 23rd 2001
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Apr 23rd 2001
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Apr 24th 2001
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Apr 23rd 2001
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Apr 23rd 2001
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Apr 24th 2001
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      uh huh...
Apr 25th 2001
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           RE: uh huh...
Apr 25th 2001
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                RE: uh huh...
BookWorm
Apr 25th 2001
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                what do you mean...
Apr 26th 2001
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                     RE: what do you mean...
BookWorm
Apr 26th 2001
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                          plenty graphic
Apr 27th 2001
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Apr 26th 2001
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Apr 27th 2001
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RE: Why No Response?
Apr 24th 2001
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question 4 original poster
Apr 24th 2001
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Apr 24th 2001
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Apr 25th 2001
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Apr 25th 2001
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zcees73
Apr 26th 2001
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      RE: question 4 original poster
Apr 27th 2001
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           also,
Apr 27th 2001
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           so easy 2 B misunderstood...
Apr 28th 2001
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Stop Judging
Apr 26th 2001
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RE: Stop Judging
Apr 26th 2001
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      @ Abduhu....
CoolV
Apr 26th 2001
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      better known to yall as........
Apr 26th 2001
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      RE: Stop Judging
Apr 27th 2001
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           RE: Stop Judging
Apr 27th 2001
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                Good question
Apr 27th 2001
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Apr 27th 2001
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                     RE: Stop Judging
Apr 28th 2001
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excellent discussion!
Apr 26th 2001
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RE: excellent discussion!
Apr 28th 2001
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shwei
Apr 30th 2001
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May 01st 2001
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shwei
May 01st 2001
68
interesting topic....
Apr 27th 2001
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ga is not always a choice
mixturevans
Apr 27th 2001
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RE: ga is not always a choice
BookWorm
Apr 28th 2001
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Apr 28th 2001
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Apr 29th 2001
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Apr 29th 2001
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           cant say
Apr 29th 2001
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shwei
Apr 29th 2001
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Apr 29th 2001
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shwei
Apr 29th 2001
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Here We Go
Apr 28th 2001
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shwei
Apr 29th 2001
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      RE: Here We Go
Apr 29th 2001
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Apr 29th 2001
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shwei
Apr 30th 2001
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the 'choice' issue
Apr 30th 2001
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shwei
Apr 30th 2001
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May 01st 2001
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shwei
May 02nd 2001
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shwei
May 02nd 2001
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      RE: the 'choice' issue
May 11th 2001
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May 11th 2001
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ha!
May 01st 2001
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      Response (also to the Queen who thought no one would)
May 02nd 2001
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May 02nd 2001
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My homophobia question
May 10th 2001
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May 10th 2001
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May 11th 2001
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