Intro: The 1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay student, was murdered as a form of hate crime against homosexuals. Right now there are teenagers who are beaten and threatened by their parents for “being or choosing to be gay”. Stephen Fry a famous comedian, was condemned by a church for his nature saying you couldn’t be a member of our church. He is not being condemned for what he does, he is being condemned for what he is. “you're a child made in the image of god, oh no you are not, you’re a faggot. And you can’t go to our church and heaven. This is disgraceful, and obscene. Time and time again people are being condemned for what they are.
Contentions: “Despite almost a century of psychoanalytic and psychological speculation, there is no substantive evidence to support the suggestion that the nature of parenting or early childhood experiences play any role in the formation of a person's fundamental heterosexual or homosexual orientation. It would appear that sexual orientation is biological in nature, determined by a complex interplay of genetic factors and the early uterine environment. Sexual orientation is therefore not a choice.” Was stated by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2007.
“Sexual orientation probably is not determined by any one factor but by a combination of genetic, hormonal, and environmental influences. In recent decades, biologically based theories have been favored by experts. Although there continues to be controversy and uncertainty as to the genesis of the variety of human sexual orientations, there is no scientific evidence that abnormal parenting, sexual abuse, or other adverse life events influence sexual orientation. Current knowledge suggests that sexual orientation is usually established during early childhood.” This was stated by the American Academy of Pediatrics stated in Pediatrics in 2004
In July 2010 a group of geneticists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science an Technology altered the