A report published Tuesday by a group of scientists has put forward a new theory that epigenetic marks may play a key role in determining why people are gay.
According to press reports, these “epi-marks” determine how genes are expressed and are normally “erased” between generations, but in cases where they are not erased, they may be passed on from a mother or father in a way that can lead to a child becoming gay.
Which means, according to Bryan Fischer, spokesperson for the American Family Association, homosexuality might be a “birth defect” which could lead prospective parents to choose abortion:
As I have said before, I suspect that not even homosexual activists today want the gay gene to be found, even if it exists, because of advances in prenatal genetic testing. It is now possible to routinely screen for 3500 genetic defects while a child is still in the womb.
So these activists rationally fear that preborn children who are detected with this gene will be aborted before they even have the chance to be born. After all, if 90% of babies in the womb who are diagnosed with Downs syndrome never draw their first breath, what are the chances that parents disposed to abortion will not exercise the same choice with regard to the gay gene?
The scientists in Koebler’s article, in my view, are now resorting to genetic subterfuge and are coming dangerously close to saying that homosexuality is the result of a genetic defect, a genetic abnormality. In other words, read from one angle, these same scientists are saying that homosexuality is the result of a birth defect.
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So in other words, when something goes wrong genetically, and these markers are not erased, the epi-markers which provide an evolutionary advantage to parents instead do evolutionary damage to their offspring.
Now these researchers are quite at pains to avoid saying anything like this, but the logic to me seems inescapable: Homosexual children, on this theory, are born evolutionarily and genetically disadvantaged. They have been overexposed or underexposed to testosterone because something has gone wrong in the process of genetic transmission. In other words, they are the product of a genetic abnormality at best, a birth defect at worst.
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I expect many abortion-minded parents will want to know exactly how strong this epi-marker is in their unborn children so they can decide whether or not to exercise reproductive choice.
In fact, I expect that if this theory gains some currency, it will not be long before we have legislation from the homosexual lobby prohibiting “sex-selection” abortions on any child carrying this epi-marker.
Fischer reiterated many of these same points on his radio program today:
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How about Bryan Fischer has a birth defect. First Letter B last letter S
He’s still talking out of his ass?
funny …… he say homosexuality is “A” birth defect…….
heterosexuality has about 10 birth defects -(my theory)
you know, making shit up doesnt constitute a theory…especially since this bizarre binary monogamy of social sexuality is not actually the evolutionary staple of the human animal.
Eat my ass Fischer
I think my brain hiccuped a little…O_O
Maybe he has a birth defect! This pissed me off. Why can’t people leave this alone. We don’t need your fucked up theories.
I think his birth is a birth defect.
WHAT A MORNON THIS MAN IS
Oh how I would love to take a piss in this man’s Cheerios. Even if this crack pot was correct, homosexuality is not a defect, for it does not cause harm to a person’s quality of life or overall health.
Was wondering how long it would take someone to go there
Maybe his parents should have chose the abortion
HE’S THE BIRTH DEFECT
D= wow..
Stop the madness AFA…seriously.
So, is he does this meanhe thinks we’re born this way?
Dimples are a mutation, nobody complains, a widows peak is a mutation, nobody complains. How is this a birth defect?
Homosexuality = birth defect? Cool! Americans with Disibilities Act makes it a felony to discriminate against us! ;-)
So bisexuals are only partially defected? Ha lame theory and bad research
Don’t worry about it, these are the same people who probably still think being non-white is a birth defect too.
Defective mind gives shit ideas…. fuck off… i was born straight… after the age of 25 i became bi sexual, and in 36 iam a pur lesbian… so, any theory behind this…
First, Kill all the religionists.
I love it when people like this don’t “believe in evolution” until they can warp it all to support their worldview.
I also like that he is trying to draw this back to anti-abortionism, but can’t bring himself to the intention of saving a gay fetus.
wait…. so to me this…. would mean…. that being gay is natural…. because wouldn’t erasing this gene be unnatural….. either way wtf does it matter…… wish people would let us gays be what we should be…. and leave it the hell alone :)
Gay hating Bastards !!!!
give me a MAJOR BREAK !
Even if this does explain why some people are gay, it’s still perfectly natural. To call it a birth defect is highly offensive, and at best nothing more than an opinion and a judgement.
Brian Fischer IS a birth defect!
oh my…. the tea party won’t like this…. “should I abort my gay child and be damned by my church & community for killing a baby with birth defects?” awkward!
Jackass. Watch him try to issue a “recall” later on….
And there are people dumb enough in this country to believe this crap!
Well that’s just lovely… Even if it were a birth defect, that doesn’t make it a reason to chastise them… Do we degrade, deny equal rights, and condemn to hell those with handicaps, or mental disabilities? What a lop of s#$*….
Oh, good! Now I qualify for government benefits for my disability, since I have a birth defect.
BS….untrue not all LGBT and their children are healthy no birth defects and even straight people their child had birth defect. He had mental illness and so weird pastor. My sis is straight and married, both are not drug, and anything just happened baby was become birth defect as Down S’s heart had stop and body not grow and need take baby out right away that way my baby sis not going died either.. Thank god my baby sis is alive. We called our baby niece ” NOEL”.. Amen….Hey pastor you are Moran so sickkkk…what wrong with some pastor and Christian not thinking in their head.. Peas brain …
Go to bed, old man!
Can somebody tell me why all these homophobic illiterate pple worry and complain all time coz of our sexual orientation did we as gays ever harassed them for wat they are or how they feel for the opposite sex oh pliz live yo lives and allow us space to breath. GAYS FOR LIFE WHETHER U LIKE IT OR NOT
xyy and xxy is the chromosomes.
Man someone please slap some sense into this guy !!! Where did he come up with this !! You are born gay !!!
Mr. Fisher is a liar, fraud and bigot. All gay people should get togther and sue him and his Family Association. And as for the Federal Judge who blocked the ban for minors I hope every gay youth who dies haunts him for the rest of his worthless life. And a few lawsuits against him would be good as well.
Blowhard
Fuck. I hate both sides of this argument.
So, what? Is he now going to change his position on abortion? What a pig!
Its simple….Who honestly gives a flying Fuck what this Asshole thinks?…seriously.
Hes a waste of space on my wall.
He speaks nonsense in circles. What IS his point?!
So, God thinks birth defects are an abomination? Or, did God not know? Can’t wait to see how this one pans out, how Fischer and the far right close this circle of un-reason.
Here’s the article he’s “trying” to understand.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/12/11/scientists-may-have-finally-unlocked-puzzle-of-why-people-are-gay