OK, that title is a stretch, but I'm currently bemused by the recent scientific finding that proves, somewhat definitively, that the brains of homosexuals are different from heterosexual brains. It's a neurological study, not psychological, so it really is the brains we're talking about, and what's been found is that -- for certain brain structures -- the male homosexual brain is closer to a female heterosexual's than to its straight male counterpart. (Try writing this without constantly reusing the same few words!) Similarly, the heterosexual male and lesbian brains are in many ways alike.
What does this prove? Perhaps nothing, but perhaps quite a bit. More and more evidence is confirming that "gay" is inherent rather than learned.
Which begs a few questions: Does this mean people will someday be able to select for (or, more likely, against) the 'gay' gene? Does this mean that hormones present in the womb are "to blame"? (Or to applaud?)
And why, selfishly, does this just seem to confirm that there's a reason I was always most comfortable working for, and with women? That I was a fundraiser, and am now in communications, and can't conceive of accounting or business or sports? It's not my emotive mother and sister? It's not the fault of the divorce?
So, no real revelations here, except that who I am is who I've always been, which I could have told you from my toddling memories of rapturous adoration of the male lifeguards at the pool.
But it is somehow comforting to know that if we are born this way, we are inevitably part of God's plan. That does feel good.
And hopefully will help sway some of those "God's-plan"-ers who have such a hard time with the homosexuals in their midst.
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