Homosexuality is a gentic disorder, and should be treated like any other gentic disorder.

Before I begin I would honestly like to say that to anyone who opposes homosexuality, I would like to bring up that unless you have been "homosexual" or "bisexual" that you may never understand how homosexuals feel, when they are told they have a genetic disorder. I would also like to put out there, that in my opinion "souls do not have a gender" The real reasons people oppose homosexuality is because they are just not comfortable with the idea, it offends everything religion stands for, gay sex is unnatural, and that the thought of gay sex is repulsive, and they might recruit. Now something I find totally ridiculous is for someone to say homosexuality is a genetic disorder. I believe that everyone has at least mild homosexual thoughts and its just the nature of any organism and is not a genetic disorder as it can't be inherited and doesn't exist either its all a state of mind. "-If the person was born gay, and the parents weren't gay, then that states a genetic mutation within that persons gene's, that is not found within the parents (since the parents had to be hetro to have a child). This is a genetic disorder that should be treated." Now if homosexuality really was a genetic disorder don't you think it would be proved by now? I think the whole idea is to make homosexuals feel as if something is wrong with them, just because the majority of people are heterosexuals. Considering that for most of history, most societies shunned, tortured, or killed homosexuals, it's hardly likely that it was a choice they made. They could no more stop being homosexuals than other people could stop being heterosexual. "-1993 X Chromosome Study, Dean Hamer – also a gay man – said: "…environmental factors play a role. There is not a single master gene that makes people gay…I don't think we will ever be able to predict who will be gay." Now my opponent brought up a quote from a study of genetics causing homosexuality, but Dr. Dean Hamer, a gay researcher, attempted to link male homosexuality to a stretch of DNA located at the tip of the X chromosome, the chromosome that some men inherit from their mothers. Regarding genetics and homosexuality Hamer concluded: "We knew that genes are only part of the answer. We assumed the environment also played a role in sexual orientation, as it does in most, if not all behaviors.... Homosexuality is not purely genetic…environmental factors play a role. There is not a single master gene that makes people gay. I don't think we will ever be able to predict who will be gay." (http://www.dunamai.com...) Now when my opponent brought this up he failed to provide you with the whole quote, when Dean states that "Homosexuality is not purely genetic" this clearly shows that my opponent has contradicted himself. Also a follow up to Dr. Dean Hamers research is this, Dr. Simon LeVay, in his study of the hypothalamic differences between the brains of homosexual and heterosexual men, offered the following criticisms of his own research, "It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain." (http://www.dunamai.com...) IN CONCLUSION, Homosexuality has not been proved to be genetic, nor should it be treated as a disorder. Thanks for the opportunity to debate something so controversial. Good luck