Why Promoting the Idea that Homosexuality is Related to Genes?

"There is no single gene responsible for a person being gay or a lesbian." That's the first thing Nsikan Akpan called people to consider about the most significant genetic investigation of sexuality in his article in PBS NewsHour.

Despite presumptions, arguments, and counter-arguments when discussing the biologicality of homosexuality, many researches proved that it is not derived from biological identity. It is instead the product of environmental influence.

So what are the reasons behind the misreport promoting the idea that homosexuality is related to genes?

 

Fake Reports

From time to time, scientific studies of the Gay Gene re-claim that homosexuality is innate. Such research or media news is one of the essential pillars of the atheistic discourse promoting that homosexuality is not a disease or a psychological disorder but rather a very legitimate option and an inherited nature in human DNA with which a person is born.

Supporting homosexuality promotes the idea that homosexuality is completely natural. According to these reports, there is a specific genetic code responsible for homosexuality, and sexual behavior in general, in the human DNA, and social factors have nothing to do with determining sexual orientation and identity.

However, a study of nearly a half million people put an end to the controversy of the so-called "gay gene."

The study reports confirmed that human DNA could not predict who is gay or who is heterosexual.

The findings revealed that sexuality cannot be pinned down by biology because human sexual attraction is decided by psychology and life experiences.

Two scientific writers, brothers Neil Whitehead and Briar Whitehead, believe that homosexuality is all about the learning process.

They said that reports claiming that homosexuality is completely natural and people have nothing to do but accept it has lost their credibility.

In their book, My Genes Made Me Do It! A Scientific Look At Sexual Orientation, the brothers said that the West had been the subject of a campaign of misinformation and deception in the last twenty or thirty years, which made its public institutions widely believe that homosexuality is inherited and therefore cannot be changed.

Media analyst, Mark Dice, agrees with Whitehead, saying that the liberal media has brainwashed its homosexual propaganda to convince people that homosexuals are on the rise.

 

How Do We Explain Homosexuality?

Newspapers and websites often make headlines, such as the discovery of the homosexuality gene or a study proving the genetic origin of sexual orientation. However, most of these headlines seem doubtfully authentic and credible.

The famous American geneticist and pro-homosexual Dean Hammer, for example, conducted a research claiming the link between genetics and homosexuality.

Nature, the American newspapers quickly adopt the news under the clear headline: A researcher discovers the gene of homosexuality.

Despite the attractiveness of this title and its explicit significance to the reader, Dean Hammer himself denied this conclusion and stated after the news spread that the gene responsible for sexual orientation was not discovered; rather, it does not exist at all.

Hammer, who is a staunch proponent of homosexuality, believes that any attempt to prove the existence of a single gene responsible for homosexuality is in vain.

In 2015, a group of researchers at the University of California announced the presence of some epigenetic signs directly affecting male homosexuality.

Nature magazine took the news with a standing ovation, and many scientific websites quickly adopted the same information.

However, a number of investigators reviewed the study and found many errors challenging the credibility of the recent study.

The British scientific writer Dr. Ed Young presented some of these errors and explained that the research missed a certain set of tests and did not provide a group to agree with the research algorithms previously established by the research team.

The research reliance on 47 twins for study was not enough to generalize the study or even to retry it because it does not guarantee sufficient statistics.

 

From Psychology's Point of View

Whether genes are responsible for sexual orientation or not—if any, the Whitehead brothers argue that homosexual attraction can be affected genetically by only 10%, which is indirect and weak.

The brothers gave the example of the genes that make a man tall, saying they won't make him a Basketball player; it is not a rule.

One of the studies suggests that the absence of a father or mother makes the percentage of homosexuality more than 20%.

As for companionship in childhood, studies have shown that homosexuals often had few same-sex friends and were rejected by large groups of the same sex.

As a result of the family's dysfunction or the rejection of their social environment, a state of gender non-conformity appears in some children, which contributes by 15% to their tendency to homosexuality, especially if this disorder is accompanied by sexual abuse of children at a young age.

In his interview, Dr. Nacer Nciri, a Psychologist in women's organizations, explained to Al-Estiklal that homosexuality was considered a natural orientation "because when going back to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, we won't found a mental illness called 'homosexuality.'"

Dr. Nciri continued: "However, psychologists have a different definition; the explanations depend on the medical institutions but lead to the same conclusion: homosexuality is never natural."

"Homosexuality is a psychological and behavioral disturbance; it usually goes back to the stage of building the child's personality; he goes through stages such as the Oedipus complex, Electra, narcissism, and the castration, from the age of two to the age of six."

Dr. Nciri also said that "the formation of the personality, the formation of sexual orientation and the formation of personality in general start to show during this period; going through these three and very important stages in the formation of the child determines the personality and the sexual orientation in the future."

"When they reach puberty, the child's sexual orientation is easy to be identified; they will be either gay or heterosexual," he added

"It is imperative to say that homosexuality is completely different from sexual diseases and is mainly related to the formation of the child's personality."