Happy Anniversary, gay marriage!

[TheEschaton]

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Unfortunately, the article is pretty depressing, but it's been 3 years, and our homes haven't fallen apart and the world hasn't ended. Gays around Massachusetts have proven themselves as loving parents and partners:

Gay Marriage Milestone (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10221380)

Congrats, guys and gals!

-TheE-

[Sean of the Thread]

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Unfortunately, the article is pretty depressing, but it's been 3 years, and our homes haven't fallen apart and the world hasn't ended. Gays around Massachusetts have proven themselves as loving parents and partners:

Gay Marriage Milestone (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10221380)

Congrats, guys and gals!

-TheE-

You act surprised? I don't remember the public masses saying it was the end of family life as we know it.

It's a very interesting subject when you start talking about their children and what effect if any it has on them.

I can name five gay friends which all have one gay biological parent and three of those have a gay life partner. Now is it genetic or related to their upbringing? How could anyone tell?

[TheEschaton]

And I have hundreds of gay friends with straight parents...

...and straight friends with gay parents....

I think we still have a few years to see if there's a significant upswing in gay people due to being raised in a gay household. But it's to be expected - for hundreds of years, gay people lived straight lives because that's what they were brought up...:P

Hopefully, we live in an age where if the kid of gay parents grows up thinking gay is normal but finds out (s)he's straight, the gay parents will be as understanding as many straight parents have been in the past 50 years.

And not as bigoted as some straight parents have been.

-TheE-

[Bobmuhthol]

The discovery of a gay gene in flies seems pretty indicative.

[xtc]

The discovery of a gay gene in flies seems pretty indicative.

I am not sure it is a "gay gene". The researchers took a gene from a female fly and transplanted it into a male fly. When they transplanted the gene the male fly displayed female behaviours.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983027,00.html

[Bobmuhthol]

Wouldn't the gene that says "Have sex with dudes," when in a dude, be a gay gene? It's the same gene exhibiting the same response.

[Skeeter]

you make a valid point.

[xtc]

Wouldn't the gene that says "Have sex with dudes," when in a dude, be a gay gene? It's the same gene exhibiting the same response.

Hmmm, I guess I don't see it that way. I would see a gay gene, a gene found, by a researcher, in a male fly that causes it to act like a female sexually.

If you take a gene from a female fly and put it into a male fly and the male fly displays female sexual behaviour. I would say you have isolated the female gene for sexual behaviour.....just my take.

[TheEschaton]

Since there are no genes associated with women that men don't have, it's just a matter of genetic expression.

Now, if they found something on the Y gene that made men gay, that would be interesting.

-TheE-

[Jayvn]

Don't forget about those lizards...i forgot their name :( but they are only females... and they have to do the motions of sex..aka mounting and stuff to get the egg going and then they self fertilize it or something... female grinds female has baby. someone finish up the facts for me

[Bobmuhthol]

It'd be crazy if it was as simple as a basic Punnett square, with G being heterosexual.

Gg + Gg = 25% chance of gg.

If only.

[TheEschaton]

It's probably at least a triple allelle, with ggg being gay.

And Ggg being Metro. ;)

-TheE-

[Jayvn]

make that like 15 species of it.. the whiptail.. go go google

[Parkbandit]

Unfortunately, the article is pretty depressing, but it's been 3 years, and our homes haven't fallen apart and the world hasn't ended. Gays around Massachusetts have proven themselves as loving parents and partners:

-TheE-

Yes, because that was the argument against Gay marriage... that the world would end.

Dumbass.

[Bobmuhthol]

lol

Way to focus on the first sentence and TOTALLY IGNORE the second...

Since that one actually was an argument against gay marriage.

[DeV]

And I have hundreds of gay friends with straight parents...

...and straight friends with gay parents....

Yeah, that.

And of course there is a gay Gene. There's also a gay Mike, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. The list is endless.

There's been no scientific evidence to support the notion that there exists a gay gene in humans. I, for one, agree for the time being.

[Latrinsorm]

I would see a gay gene, a gene found, by a researcher, in a male fly that causes it to act like a female sexually.

If you take a gene from a female fly and put it into a male fly and the male fly displays female sexual behaviour. I would say you have isolated the female gene for sexual behaviour.....just my take.You should really put "act like a heterosexual female sexually" in there.