New study ‘finds genetic links to same-sex behavior’: Three facts you need to know
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 30 August 2019
⏱️ 8 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR AUGUST 30, 2019
A new study focused on the question of genetics and same-sex sexual attraction is generating headlines. Today's podcast discusses this report, offers three facts we need to consider, and calls us to sexual purity as God's best for us.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.9 | LGBTQ advocates have long sought evidence for the claim that same-sex sexual attraction |
| 0:25.6 | is genetically conditioned. |
| 0:27.6 | God made me this way is a common claim. |
| 0:30.6 | If it could be proven that same-sex sexual attraction is inherited, many would find it |
| 0:35.6 | even easier to liken homosexual persons to racial minorities |
| 0:39.6 | and castigate those who affirm biblical sexual morality as prejudiced and homophobic. |
| 0:45.7 | We should therefore not be surprised by the way a new study of same-sex sexual behavior is being |
| 0:50.7 | reported. Research finds genetic links to same-sex behavior, |
| 0:55.4 | headlines the Wall Street Journal. The New York Times headlines the story a bit differently. |
| 1:00.6 | Many genes influence same-sex sexuality, not a single gay gene. If these headlines were all you |
| 1:07.4 | read, you'd assume that the God Made Me This Way claim has finally been proven. |
| 1:12.2 | The opposite is actually true. |
| 1:17.1 | Researchers studied 408,000 men and women from a large British database, |
| 1:22.4 | and nearly 70,000 customers of the Genetic Testing Service 23 and Me. |
| 1:27.3 | They found that common genetic variants |
| 1:29.3 | account for between 8% and 25% of same-sex sexual behavior. They then estimated that another |
| 1:36.5 | 7% might involve genetic effects they could not measure. These findings are what led the times |
| 1:42.8 | in the journal to make their announcements. |
| 1:45.1 | We can expect them to be used by others to make the case for genetic causation of same-sex |
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