The following comes from an August 24 Christian Newswire article:
A new exhaustive scientific study conducted by two Johns Hopkins University scientists reveals that scientific evidence does not support the “born that way” claim regarding homosexuality or the “trapped in the body” so-called transgender claim. Written by Dr. Lawrence S. Mayer and Dr. Paul R. McHugh, this study evaluates data from over 200 peer-reviewed studies regarding sexual orientation and gender identity.
Regarding “sexual orientation,” the study concludes: “The understanding of sexual orientation as an innate, biologically-fixed property of human beings – the idea that people are ‘born that way’—is not supported by scientific evidence.”
Regarding “gender identity,” the study states: “The hypothesis that gender identity is an innate, fixed property of human beings that is independent of biological sex – that a person might be ‘a man trapped in a woman’s body’ or ‘a woman trapped in a man’s body,’—is not supported by scientific evidence.”
Regarding health, the research reveals non-heterosexuals experience 1.5 times more anxiety and depression, 1.5 times more substance abuse, and 2.5 times the risk of suicide than heterosexuals. Suicide attempts by transgender individuals are estimated at 41 percent compared to less than five percent of the overall population. The study shows a very small portion of the population, less than one percent, identify as transgender. It also concludes there is no evidence to suggest that children should be encouraged to become transgender if they act or speak in a way that is typical of their opposite gender and warns against any treatments or surgeries on young people who identify with the opposite gender.
“We are uniquely created by God as male and female. There are not multiple variants of gender. The human race is binary – male and female. It’s time to stop pushing this deceptive agenda and enabling such mental confusion,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. “The scientific facts do not support the harmful LGBT agenda. Common sense demands we stop rebelling against nature,” said Staver.
Of course it is nearly impossible to actually read the original article. I have read the summary. It’s not a peer reviewed journal. It’s published in a journal who’s mission is to “shake things up”. That is hardly what constitutes a reputable publication. It presents no new information, but is a summary of unstated work by others. And then, of course, CCD and articles like this one say things that the article apparently doesn’t even say. It makes no claim to “debunk gay gene myth”, it simply says there isn’t enough evidence yet.
“Peer reviewed” means “biased toward LGBT” in contemporary social and health sciences. Hardly any scientists or practicioners who advocate for the normalization of LGBT are reaching objective conclusions; the science is thoroughly corrupt by non-scientific, ideological worldviews that are filtering what counts as acceptable. The “peers” filter out anything that opposes their ideological agenda.
Society’s laws have been turned upside down by false LGBT claims that they are born that way and that it is normal. The rush to enact laws based on fraudulent claims has been astonishing. Such is the LGBT tyranny of “peer-reviewed” pseudo-science.
Nobody can support LGBT and be a faithful “fellow” Catholic.
Accusations slammed against entire fields of study with out a single shred of evidence. You simply have no idea what you are talking about, you just make things up as you go along.
The evidence is in the teleology of sex, which is so simple that even a dim-witted teenager can understand it.
It is an obvious truth that males are sexually ordered toward females and vice versa. Sexual desire for the same sex doesn’t accord with the teleology of sex; it is disordered.
Any claim or effort to normalize disordered sexual desires must deny the obvious teleology of sex, but to do that would be to distort reality and reach a false conclusion. The teleology of sex is real and unalterable; it is an inherent, fixed component of sexual nature.
Therefore, every scientist and doctor, every professional body that claims homosexuality is not a disorder is contradicting the obvious teleology of sex, which makes them all…
… which makes them all obviously wrong.
It takes a lot of edumacation for LGBTers to deny reality.
It only takes a little bit of scare tactics to persuade decent people who know better in their hearts to go along with the false reality because most people have no spine and simply want to be nice and then left alone. They also don’t know how to refute propaganda from the likes of YFC and people with academic degrees.
The gay lobby is replete with lies, falsehoods, distortions and coercion.
If I may interject something here: as an on-and-off commenter here for at least 8 years now, I am just struck sometimes that when I ask folks to substantiate their claims (most recently their false claims about me), they have not been able to substantiate it. It is the nature of anonymous comments that anyone can just make claims here, promote and excuse dissent and disobedience, attack clerics, spew heresies and not have to give an account for it. Most careless and most unethical.
yep. Sometimes it is carelessness or sloth, a lot of times it is just anger and pride.
AMEN!
To clarify: My little AMEN above is for Sawyer, NOT YFC. You speak true. The wise know and listen. The PC crew, not so much.
(Sorry but — Why do responses end up in the wrong spot?)
I guess what it comes down to is why the LGBT crowd, especially in Catholic circles, so desperately hangs on, hope against hope, whether or not they were born “that way,” that they have moral justification to pursue their sexual proclivities. It’s just tough to understand why even tragically confused individuals conclude that it makes sense to roll the dice on their salvation in the face of thousands of years of teaching. This group comes along, and they say they know better than the saints.
“Almost without exception, the gay men I know (and that’s too many to count) have a story of some kind of sexual trauma or abuse in their childhood – molestation by a parent or an authority figure, or seduction as an adolescent at the hands of an adult.
The other reason actually discussed in the community is that, because of the Aids crisis and the emergence of drug resistant strains of contagions like herpes and gonorrhea, gay men are compelled to seek new, untouched young men.”
The gay community must face the truth and see sexual molestation of an adolescent for the abuse it is, instead of the ‘coming of age’ experience many regard it as being.”
Tammy Bruce – ‘The Death of Right & Wrong’
Pride precedes the Fall.
Bishops confuse the faithful through their silence, ambiguity, failure to oversee correct catechesis on this topic, and counterproductive diocesan and parish LGBT ministries that frequently are the source of the false hope that you describe.
‘gay gene denial’ is the scariest thing for believers in the gay gene religion. a transition ministry may be required to help to help former believers work their way back to a time when they functioned without this worldview.
“not supported by scientific evidence.”
Ah – but it is the Agenda of the ‘anonymous’ (Paid?) Homosex Trolls who regularly trash this board, and of course the CA Government and Democrat Party.
Get ready for an uptick in Abomination as the election nears, and more of the same afterwards.
The caving by certain legislators who would not even abstain on SB 1146 – after it failed to pass the first time, is a SSAD Warning of the pressure tactics targeting Catholic Institutions.
Listen, Michael, there may be many things together that can cause a homosexual orientation. But not one of them is choice. I have never met anyone who chose to be gay. Having said that while the orientation is not a choice, what people do with that is. How they chose to live their life is their choice. But the orientation is NOT a CHOICE. A person does not one day flip a switch and says, “i think I will be gay.” Thats stupid. I am not an expert on what actually causes it whether their may be a genetic pre disposition or not, but I have know many many people who have gone to heroic lengths to try and change to no avail. So Michael, as Catholics we need to do as the Catechism says, “embrace them and welcome them into our…
If choice isn’t an element at least some of the time, why are there high-profile examples of celebrities flipping back and forth (Ann Heche), announcing they are suddenly bi-sexual (Bella Thorne) and so forth?
Did circumstances alter their “orientation” without any influence of their own free will? Does the orientation inexplicably flip sometimes?
Are you stating that choice plays no role at all? That initial, mild homosexual desires freely acted upon don’t strengthen and solidify those desires? That such initial desires freely and virtuously resisted don’t reduce those desires?
Perhaps the greater incidents of homo and bi-sexuality in our society are because people are no longer counseled to resist such desires as sinful…
Is that what all this about about – homosexuals complaining that they aren’t “embraced”? I wish somebody would embrace me. Tell them to go pick up their cross and follow Christ and quit complaining. Nobody is ever going to be embraced by Him unless they turn their back on their sin. The problem is the homosexuals don’t want to do that, and instead want to make endless excuses like they were born “that way.” Embrace is quid pro quo.
‘Gay gene’? No scientific evidence for it
https://www.onenewsnow.com/science-tech/2016/08/23/gay-gene-no-scientific-evidence-for-it
“The understanding of sexual orientation as an innate, biologically fixed property of human beings – the idea that people are ‘born that way’ – is not supported by scientific evidence,”
The 143-page report recognizes a corollary between same-gender attraction and sexual abuse as a child
The Johns Hopkins experts also emphasize that sexuality is fluid – which means homosexuals can change; and many have, mostly through Christ.
May the gates of HELL, opened wide in America, thru BO’s immoral legislation, close. Thru the grace of God, we are born male & female. ANYTHING else is a man-made mess. Usually created by the experiences of broken marriages, families, relationships & other unresolved mental/emotional issues. Don’t mock God by NOT accepting His special design for you. Anything else is a waste of this life & harmful to your health & soul. Thank you John Hopkins for being brave enough to publish this study against the rising TIDAL wave of Sodom & Gomorrah in society. The wise listen. The PC, not so much to their own determent. Pray for them.
Making a difference: California MassResistance’s fight to stop LGBT anti-religion bill: Here’s how to lobby your state legislators.
https://www.massresistance.org//docs/gen3/16b/CA-bill-SB1146/protests_Aug2016.html
Out to stop SB 1146 – the worst bill in the country
Breaking the mold of the mushy and ineffective pro-family movement
State Police brought in to intimidate us, but it didn’t work!
To claim that God creates homosexuals is pure blasphemy!
God is infinitely ordered and has created an ordered creation. Disorder was introduced by the Fall.
Homosexuality is a disorder, so it cannot be a “gift” nor a directly willed condition imputed by the infinitely ordered God, who can only do good. To create directly and willfully a disordered creature would be to commit evil, and God is incapable of doing evil.
Just for the record everyone, fornication (a sin between opposite genders) is judged by the Church to be a disorder as well. Any sinful inclination is a disordered inclination such as lying, calumny, lust, masturbation which are examples listed in the Catechism. Ascribing the Church’s term “disorder” to mean only same-sex attraction is WRONG! And this seems to have been Sawyer’s pathological obsession.
Sawyer, Thank you, for all of your patient efforts to teach and especially for that beautifully worded, (August 28, 2016 at 6:00 pm,) Catholic post. This simple yet so very eloquent explanation will help many readers who ARE interested in learning the truth. The Catholic Faith is the One True Faith and when readers hear it explained so clearly it becomes so very easy to recognize Christ’s teachings.
John 10: 14-15 “I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and mine know me. As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down my life for my sheep.”
The entire ‘LGBT’ narrative just crumbled
J. Matt Barber https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/mbarber/160829
ironically, lesbian activist and writer Dorothy Allison who once wrote, “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
a series of new peer-reviewed studies have just been released that serve to utterly debunk and deconstruct key “progressive” homosexual-activist talking points.
‘Sexuality and Gender: Findings from the Biological, Psychological, and Social Sciences’
CDC – just released this month a report establishing and detailing the devastating effects of “LGBT” identity and behaviors on teens “grades 9-12.”
“Self-labeled homosexual and bisexual teens were twice as likely as…
The entire ‘LGBT’ narrative just crumbled
By J. Matt Barber https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/mbarber/160829
“Self-labeled homosexual and bisexual teens were twice as likely as heterosexual teens to have been victims of sexual or physical dating violence =
“They are more than twice as likely to have had sexual intercourse before age 13. Can we just have a heart and ask: with whom? Were these adult ‘partners’? (aka molesters).”
It’s notable here that, in past studies, researchers with the CDC have indeed discovered that “gay” men are “at least three times more likely to report CSA (childhood sexual abuse),” while the left-leaning Archives of Sexual Behavior similarly determined in a 2001 study that nearly half of…
CDC says: Gay Men are 2% of the Population but 55% of HIV Cases, 67% of New Cases!
https://constitution.com/cdc-says-gay-men-2-population-55-hiv-cases-67-new-cases/
In a startling story that is sure to be overlooked by the mainstream media, the CDC’s latest report on HIV and AIDS reveals some important truths-
Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men made up an estimated 2% of the population but 55% of people living with HIV in the United States in 2013. If current diagnosis rates continue, 1 in 6 gay and bisexual men will be diagnosed with HIV in their lifetime, including 1 in 2 black/African-American gay and bisexual men, 1 in 4 Hispanic/Latino gay and bisexual men, and 1 in 11 white gay and bisexual men.
In 2014:
Gay…
Of course, this study doesn’t exactly say what the Christian based summary suggests. For example, while the paper does say that the theory of”gender identity” is an innate “born that way” trait “is not supported by biological evidence”, this doesn’t mean that science has “debunked” this idea. What they’re saying is that there’s “NOT ENOUGH EVIDENCE”. For example, the paper also says that the idea that cross-gender hormone fluctuations in the developing embryo can cause gender dysphoria “might be true” and warrants further study.
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/conclusion-sexuality-and-gender
Like ‘anonymous’ (Paid?) homosex Trolls across the net, our own ‘Resident Harpies’ will deny and obfuscate anything in service of their real agenda of disruption and destruction, in service of an ersatz fraud of ‘tolerance;.
The John Jay ‘Study’ is typical of the pathetic farce of academentia – and could have been done at a fraction of the cost by simply asking the participants who wanted to lose their job and become a pariah for acknowledging the Truth of the Homosex Ephebophile infiltration and attack on Adolescent Boys at the root of the Church ‘abuse scandal / coverup’.
Just scroll past the Troll – the Truth is being Told by others not hiding their identity
MIchael your constant harping on the HIV rates and rates of victimization by molesters ought to inspire in any good Christian a sense of compassion. Instead, you turn those numbers into a sword to wield against people.
Michael McDermott, McHugh does also come out against surgical intervention in gender dysphoria cases on the basis that science lacks enough evidence to support such a drastic treatment. They don’t say science has determined that “it’s all in their head”.
Review by a real scientist in the field:
“Published by the Ethics &Public Policy Center, a conservative think tank “dedicated to applying the Judeo-Christian moral tradition to critical areas of public policy…Mayer has never published a single article on human sexuality or gender (his name doesn’t even appear in the paper’s bibliography) & McHugh actually has a long history of blocking such efforts, beginning with his closure of the pioneering gender identity clinic at Johns Hopkins in 1979. McHugh claimed that his decision was based in science, but his real motivation became clear through his… decision to explain his actions not in a scientific journal but in a conservative Catholic publication.”https://bit.ly/2bYrqVe