Two distinguished scholars at Johns Hopkins University have released a lengthy, three-part report that concludes there is not sufficient evidence to prove homosexuals and transgenders are born in that condition. In other words, there is no “gay gene.”
“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,” says the executive summary.
“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,” it adds.
Melonie Wood, of the Heritage Foundation, points out that the report is based on science, not politics, hence the scholars don’t have a political point of view.
The study also recognizes a corollary between same-gender attraction and sexual abuse as a child, and that gender identity is fluid which suggests that homosexuals can change.
“I think the evidence is becoming so overwhelming that there is no gay gene that even liberal-minded academics are forced to concede this point,” says Peter LaBarbara of Americans for Truth about Homosexuality. “The homosexual lobby and a lot of people in it banked on the gay gene theory to win sympathy. It worked … but the evidence continues to mount against that theory.”
“Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot…” Luke 17:28.