We are all people. People who love, cry, eat and breathe just like everybody else does. If homosexuality is not "normal," then what is it? Homosexuals, and heterosexual as well, argue that it is not a choice, but inherent to who they are. With certain qualifications for people of confused identify, it is acceptable to believe that homosexuality is rooted in biology, and that the individual doesn 't choose it. “The American researcher Dean Hamer published research that seemed to prove that homosexual orientation could be genetically transmitted to men on the x chromosome, which they get from their mothers” (Am I Gay?). If it is rooted in biology, and is not normal, then therefore, homosexuality must be a genetic quirk, a genetic mutation that causes a person to have a sexual identity that is innately in contradiction with that person 's physical self and with the natural instinct to pass one 's genes to the next generation through procreation with a person of the opposite sex. “If science
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