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Homosexual Myths Exposing the Lies of the Radical Gay Agenda Speak the Truth in Love • Don’t compromise the Biblical standard • Remember Jesus saves homosexuals and died for them • Truth comes from the Bible • The Bible, not science is our source of authority Science and the Bible • Homosexuality is not an “inborn trait” or genetically determined • The handout – excellent Biblical foundation regarding the passages on homosexuality Homosexuality is Genetic/Inherited “I Was Born This Way” • “Show me the study” • “People are born gay” – Ann Landers said it and millions believed it Homosexuality is Genetic/Inherited “I Was Born This Way” • Dr. Neil Whitehead and Briar Whitehead state regarding various cultures: “If homosexuality were significantly influenced by genes, it would appear in every culture, but in 29 of 79 cultures surveyed by Ford and Beach homosexuality was rare or absent.” -- My Genes Made Me Do It: A Scientific Look at Sexual Orientation Homosexuality is Genetic/Inherited “I Was Born This Way” • My Genes Made Me Do It: A Scientific Look at Sexual Orientation • Based on a 15-year review of more than 10,000 scientific papers and publications on homosexuality Homosexuality is Genetic/Inherited “I Was Born This Way” I will prove: • There is no genetic proof that people are born homosexuals • Many of the studies that the media claimed definitively proved that homosexuality is an inborn trait were either rigged studies, or even studies that proved nothing, but the media spun the conclusions Homosexuality is Genetic/Inherited “I Was Born This Way” • A handful of studies, none of them replicated and all exposed as methodologically unsound, have linked sexual orientation to everything from differences in portions of the brain, to genes, finger length, inner ear differences, eye-blinking, and prenatal hormonal influences, or “neuro-hormonal differentiation.” Homosexuality is Genetic/Inherited “I Was Born This Way” • What does PFLAG say? • From “Why Ask Why? Addressing the Research on Homosexuality and Biology.” • “To date, no researcher has claimed that genes can determine sexual orientation. At best, researchers believe that there may be a genetic component…No human behavior, let alone sexual behavior, has been connected to genetic markers to date” Homosexuality is Genetic/Inherited “I Was Born This Way” • J.O.N.A.H. - Jews Offering New Alternatives to Homosexuality • “No bodily correlates of homosexuality have been demonstrated. Like with the monster of Loch Ness, there are periodic claims that a biologic factor has been spotted, but upon closer inspection, the claims evaporate.” Homosexuality is Genetic/Inherited “I Was Born This Way” Three main studies: 1.Brain study (hypothalamus) by Simon LeVay 2.A twin study by Michael Bailey and Richard Pillard 3.Genetic study by Dean Hammer having to do with the X chromosome • “All were announced with great fanfare; all were greeted unskeptically in the popular press; all are now in disrepute.” Charles Mann, Science Magazine Homosexuality is Genetic/Inherited “I Was Born This Way” • “There is no evidence at present to substantiate a biologic theory… The appeal of current biologic explanations for sexual orientation may derive more from dissatisfaction with the present status of psychosocial explanations than from a substantiating body of experimental data.” -- William Byne and Bruce Parsons, “Human Sexual Orientation: The Biologic Theories Reappraised,” Archives of General Psychiatry, Vol. 50, March 1993: 228-239. Homosexuality is Genetic/Inherited “I Was Born This Way” • American Psychiatric Association (APA) issued a Fact Sheet, “Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Issues,” which includes this statement: • “Currently, there is a renewed interest in searching for biological etiologies [causes] for homosexuality. However, to date there are no replicated scientific studies supporting any specific biological etiology for homosexuality.” Homosexuality is Genetic: Dr. LeVay • Dr. Simon LeVay, claimed that he found a difference in homosexual’s hypothalamus compared with heterosexual men • An area called INAH3 that “proved” this caused them to be “gay.” • LeVay himself later admitted a number of serious flaws in his research which you can read about in “Born or Bred” by Concerned Women for America – link on website. Homosexuality is Genetic: The Brain and Dr. LeVay • The media promoted LeVay’s findings but left out LeVay’s conclusion: • “The results do not allow one to decide if the size of INAH3 in an individual is the cause or the consequence of that individual’s sexual orientation.” • He later admitted that he wasn’t sure about the sexual orientation of all of his cadavers. Homosexuality is Genetic: The Brain and Dr. LeVay • “It’s important to stress what I didn’t find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn’t show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain. …Since I looked at adult brains, we don’t know if the differences I found were there at birth, or if they appeared later.” --LeVay -- David Nimmons, “Sex and the Brain,” Discover, Vol. 5, No. 3 (March 1994): 6471 and cited in A. Dean Byrd, Ph.D., Shirley E. Cox, Ph.D., and Jeffrey W. Robinson, Ph.D., “The Innate-Immutable Argument Finds No Basis in Science,” National Association of Research and Therapy for Homosexuality Homosexuality is Genetic: The Brain and Dr. LeVay • Two later studies debunked LeVay’s research. • William Byne in the Hormones and Behavior Journal corrected LeVay’s conclusions. • He concluded, “Sexual orientation cannot be reliably predicted on the basis of INAH3 volume alone.” • Another study, done by three Swedish scholars – Savic, Berglund, and Lindstrom showed: “changes in the hypothalamus at times are the result of sexual behavior rather than the cause of it.” Homosexuality is Genetic: The Brain and Dr. LeVay • “People who think gays and lesbians are born that way are also more likely to support gay rights.” -- LeVay • LeVay is an open homosexual, and in various interviews revealed he was trying to help the gay-agenda • LeVay gave up on finding the gay gene after years and then on research Homosexuality is Genetic: The Brain and Dr. LeVay • Dr. Jeffrey Satinover: Fellow in Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry at Yale University, a past president of the C.G. Jung Foundation and was a William James Lecturer in Psychology and Religion at Harvard University. • He holds degrees from MIT, the University of Texas, and Harvard University. He is the author of Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth (Baker Books, 1996). Homosexuality is Genetic: The Brain and Dr. LeVay • “We will see…the falsity of activists’ repeated assertions that homosexuality is immutable. They seek to create the impression that science has settled these questions, but it most certainly has not. Instead, the changes that have occurred in both public and professional opinion have resulted from politics, pressure, and public relations” – Dr. Satinover Homosexuality is Genetic: The X Factor and Dr. Hamer • In 1993, a group of medical researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) led by Dr. Dean Hamer released a study of 40 pairs of brothers that allegedly linked homosexuality to the X chromosome. • Science journal study reported that 33 of the pairs of brothers had DNA markers in the chromosome region known as Xq28 – inherited from the mother to homosexual son. Homosexuality is Genetic: The X Factor and Dr. Hamer • The study won an enormous amount of media attention • Hamer’s activities as a homosexual activist within NCI were covered up because Hamer offered interviews only when reporters agreed not to identify him as a homosexual. Homosexuality is Genetic: The X Factor and Dr. Hamer • He says in his book Science of Desire: The Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior, “We knew that the genes were only part of the answer. We assumed the environment also played a role in sexual orientation, as it does in most, if not all behaviors.” -- Dean Hamer, The Science of Desire (New York, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 82. Homosexuality is Genetic: The X Factor and Dr. Hamer • Hamer said in an interview, “Homosexuality is not purely genetic…Environmental factors play a role. There is not a single master gene that makes people gay…I don’t think we will ever be able to predict who will be gay.” • Hamer also admitted that in his study, he found that this supposed gene only plays a role in 5 to 30% of gay men. • Are there more “gay genes” and a lesbian gene left to find? Homosexuality is Genetic: The X Factor and Dr. Hamer • Dr. Byne argues that in order to prove anything by this study, Hamer would have had to examine the Xq28 sequence of homosexual men’s heterosexual brothers. • Hamer insisted that such an inclusion would have confused his study. • In a journal article “The Biological Evidence Challenged,” in Scientific American Journal (May 1994) Dr. Byne responds: “In other words, inclusion of heterosexual brothers might have revealed that something other than genes is responsible for sexual orientation.” Homosexuality is Genetic: The X Factor and Dr. Hamer • In 1999, Drs. George Rice, Neil Risch and George Ebers published their findings in Science after attempting to replicate Hamer’s Xq28 study. • “We were not able to confirm evidence for an Xq28-linked locus underlying male homosexuality.” • “These results do not support an X-linked gene underlying male homosexuality.” -- Rice, George, Carol Anderson, Neil Risch, and George Ebers (1999), “Male Homosexuality: Absence of Linkage to Microsatellite Markers at Xq28,” Science, 284:665-667, April 23. Homosexuality is Genetic: The X Factor and Dr. Hamer • Two other groups could not replicate Hamer’s findings Homosexuality is Genetic: The X Factor and Dr. Hamer • What happened to Dr. Hamer and his flawed study? • The National Institutes of Health’s Office of Research Integrity investigated Hamer over allegations by a colleague that he intentionally ignored evidence that conflicted with his hypothesis. • Hamer was under investigation for scientific fraud and transferred to a different department. Homosexuality is Genetic: Identical Twins: Bailey and Pillard • In 1991, J. Michael Bailey and Richard C. Pillard published a study that examined identical and fraternal twin brothers and adopted brothers in an effort to establish a genetic link to homosexuality. • Identical twins (monozygotic ) have an identical genetic makeup, 100% the same DNA. Homosexuality is Genetic: Identical Twins: Bailey and Pillard • According to BAILEY AND PILLARD: • 52% of male identical twins were both gay • 22 percent of fraternal twins fell into the same category • Since identical twins have the same genetic code why aren’t both twins homosexuals 100% of the time if homosexuality is genetically determined? Homosexuality is Genetic: Identical Twins: Bailey and Pillard • Since 100% of identical twins were not both gay, Bailey admitted, “there must be something in the environment to yield the disconcordant twins.” • Bailey is an open homosexual, and an outspoken proponent of the pro-gay agenda, and his bias is apparent in his research. Homosexuality is Genetic: Identical Twins: Bailey and Pillard • “This finding alone argues for the enormous importance of nongenetic factors influencing homosexuality because … in order for something to be genetically determined, as opposed to merely influenced, the genetic heritability would need to approach 100 percent.” -- Dr. Satinover Homosexuality is Genetic: Identical Twins: Bailey and Pillard • Most didn’t report a finding in Bailey’s study: that fraternal twins who share no more genetic material than non-twin brothers were twice as likely to both be homosexuals than non-twins. • Whatever the reasons, it can’t be genetics, therefore choice and environment are involved. Homosexuality is Genetic: Identical Twins: Bailey and Pillard • Three other studies were made and came to different conclusions than Bailey and Pillards’. • Bailey took samples by advertising in popular homosexual media so it was not a random sample of identical twins. The study also doesn’t prove that 52% of the time, both identical twins will be homosexuals. It merely proves that out of the small sample he studied, that was the figure. Homosexuality is Genetic: Identical Twins: Bailey and Pillard • Byne, who is for “gay rights” states: • “Most of the links in the chain of reasoning from biology to social policy [regarding homosexuality], do not hold up under scrutiny.” -- T. Lidz, “A Reply to ‘A Genetic Study of Male Sexual Orientation,’” Archives of General Psychiatry 50 (1993): 240. Homosexuality is Genetic: Identical Twins: Bailey and Pillard • Bailey: “Let’s try again!” • He used the Australian Twin Registry, one of the largest in the world with over 20,000 twins registered. • March 2000 study in issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology showed less possible genetic influence on homosexuality than the first twins study. Homosexuality is Genetic: Identical Twins: Bailey and Pillard • The study showed that 11% of the identical twins were both homosexuals. • Of the 16 fraternal male twins, none of the pairs was both homosexual. Bailey found similar results for lesbians. -- Stanton L. Jones, “The Incredibly Shrinking Gay Gene,” Christianity Today, 4 October 1999, p. 53. Homosexuality is Genetic: Identical Twins: Bailey and Pillard • A better sampling showed that only 10% of identical twins were both homosexuals. • If homosexuality were genetic, than why aren’t identical twins both homosexuals 100% of the time? • 9 out of 10 times, one is gay and the other isn’t. Homosexuality is Genetic: Identical Twins: Bailey and Pillard • Neil Risch and colleagues in the Science Journal pointed out: “The biological brothers and adoptive brothers showed approximately the same rates. This latter observation suggests that there is no genetic component, but rather an environmental component shared in families” -- Risch, Neil, Elizabeth Squires-Wheeler, and Bronya J.B. Keats (1993), “Male Sexual Orientation and Genetic Evidence,” Science, 262:2063-2064, December 24. Homosexuality is Genetic: Identical Twins: Bailey and Pillard • King and McDonald in The British Journal of Psychiatry said the low odds of identical twins being homosexuals “confirmed that genetic factors are [an] insufficient explanation for the development of sexual orientation.” Homosexuality is Genetic: Identical Twins: Bailey and Pillard • Two other world-renowned genetics researchers “While the authors interpreted their findings as evidence for a genetic basis for homosexuality, we think that the data in fact provide strong evidence for the influence of the environment.” -- Billings, P. and Beckwith, J. Technology Review, July, 1993. p. 60. Homosexuality is Genetic: Identical Twins: Bailey and Pillard • Other studies trying to prove that homosexuality is genetic examine prenatal hormone exposure, finger lengths, eye blinks, and other factors and every single one has been proven to be utterly false. • The “gay gene” has not been found and will not be found because there isn’t one. Homosexuality is Genetic: Identical Twins: Bailey and Pillard • Researchers conclude, after reviewing literally 1000s of research papers that there is no evidence that shows homosexuality is genetic and that none of the plausible research even makes this claim. The homosexual research has been debunked, and the other research never makes the claim that homosexuality is genetic (although the media spins it that way). Dr. Satinover Myth: Homosexuals Can’t Change • Psychiatrist, Robert Spitzer, who first lobbied the APA (American Psychological Association) in 1973 to remove the listing of homosexuality as a clinical disorder, has affirmed that through psycho-therapeutic efforts or through ex-gay ministries like Exodus International, that homosexual men and women have changed. (Archives of Sexual Behavior). Myth: Homosexuals Can’t Change • In his in-depth study 66% of men and 44% of women experienced a powerful change and were happily functioning as heterosexuals. • Another study, by Jones and Yarhouse, concluded that about 38% changed successfully and that the change did not harm the person as secular psychologists claim. – Homosexuality: Scientific Research Myth: Homosexuals Can’t Change • 1 Cor. 6 makes it clear that homosexuals did change after being saved by Christ • 1 Cor. 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. Myth: Homosexuals Can’t Change • NARTH released a study last week, a comprehensive overview of 125 years of scientific literature on this topic. • The evidence overwhelmingly refutes the claims made by factions within the American Psychological Association (APA) that change is impossible. • http://www.narth.com/ What Causes Homosexuality? • If it’s not genetic, what causes it? • Males seeking affirmation from another male because they either lacked affection and affirmation from their father • Sexual abuse • Domineering mother What Causes Homosexuality? • In his book Male Homosexuality Dr. Richard Friedman cites 13 independent studies from 1959 to 1981 on the early family lives of homosexuals. • In 12 out of 13, they all concluded that the parent-child interaction with the parent of the same-sex was anywhere from a range of distant to abusive for those in the homosexual lifestyle. Homosexuals Can’t Change • All the passages in Scripture make it clear that homosexuality is a sin and therefore a choice just like any other sin. • But there is hope and freedom in Jesus Christ. Resources • Various books give testimonies of people who left the homosexual lifestyle • Coming Out of Homosexuality by Bob Davies and Lori Rentzel • Various books by Joe Dallas • Coming Out Straight by Richard Cohen • You Don’t Have to Be Gay by Jeff Konrad • Love Won Out, a ministry of Focus on the Family is a successful conference that helps homosexuals change Resources • Other Helpful Resources: • Bringing Up Boys by James Dobson • A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality by Joseph Nicolosi • Someone I Love Is Gay: How Family & Friends Can Respond by Anita Worthen • 101 Frequently Asked Questions About Homosexuality by Mike Haley • The Gay Gospel?: How Pro-Gay Advocates Misread the Bible by Joe Dallas • Restoring Sexual Identity: Hope for Women Who Struggle with Same-Sex Attraction by Anne Paulk Resources • See our website for more resources