Homosexuality the Real Facts

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Because so many people remain negatively focussed on the question of homosexuality modern  medical research (not opinions) will hopefully clear any doubts behind the causes of the condition known as Homosexuality.   

The following comments were recently posted by Dr.Kate O’Hanlan* on a conservative U.S. based Catholic Website.  Following years of  indepth research by the North American medical profession shows that homosexuality is simple due to natural hormonic variation  instead of 'choice' by the individual.    Please note that Dr. O’Hanlan’s qualified observation is widely supported by numerious recognized medical organizations.   

 

Research published in medical journals in the National Library of Congress, (include Frontiers of Neuroendocrinology April 2011) consistently reveal that variable hormonal levels in the first twelve weeks of pregnancy permanently affect child’s neural circuitry for sexual orientation and gender identity to express on a spectrum between straight and gay, same or opposite gender. A little extra testosterone secreted from the adrenals during early pregnancy affects the baby girls’brains causing nearly half to be lesbian, a tenth to be transgender. Also, a girl twin baby simply sharing the womb with a boy co-twin, in which some of his testosterone from his amniotic fluid gets into her blood, causes about one fifth of girl co-twins to be lesbian. These girls also have the bone structure and physical coordination of boys, so they are good in sports, and thus the stereotype.
The opposite is also true: a bit less testosterone than usual in a boy’s blood during early pregnancy can make him gay or transgender. If a boy’s mother has delivered many older brothers before him, which caused her to make blocking antibody to his male proteins, resulting in about one fifth of boys with many older brothers being gay. Many of these boys have phonation, gait, physiology and linguistic and visual arts skills slightly more like girls, and thus the stereotype.
Most homosexuals and most heterosexuals believe that they had no choice to be how they are because they were born on the far ends of the spectrum. They can firmly claim they were “born that way.” But, for some straight and gay folks, it WAS and IS definitely a choice for them because they were born closer to the middle of the biological spectrum between straight and gay: they are simply bisexual. Their orientations don’t change from straight to gay when they date different genders, they simply have brain wiring that attracts them to both. All orientations are hard-wired prenatally and none can change it. It is all biological and innocent, and not contagious or changeable.

From the American Psychological Association: homosexuality is a normal sexual orientation; homosexual relationships are normal relationships.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association, American Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, National Association of Social Workers, Child Welfare League of America, North American Council on Adoptable Children have endorsed civil marriage/adoption for same-sex couples because marriage strengthens mental, physical health and longevity of couples, and having two parents (of any gender) provides greater health, legal/financial security for children. Research confirms that children develop perfectly normally. Even the American Academy of Anthropology has issued a policy statement that says access to civil marriage by same-sex couples will not harm our social order.
Visit the websites of these non-partisan, national professional and certifying associations for their policy statements and view their rationales based on published scientific research.
If we don’t listen to professional experts on national family health and welfare, then we are simply voting our religious beliefs or personal bias into state and federal laws, and harming the families of gay and lesbian couples, especially those with children.
Recall what the Catholic Church did to Galileo.
 

*This article was written with the kind permission of Dr. Kate  O’Hanlan, M.D. who is a Gynecological and Oncology surgeon at the Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, CA. specializing in laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery.
  

 

Aid for Pakistan

The following article first appeared in the La Presse de Montreal, By Patrice Lagace on Sept. 20/2010. Since that time is has appeared on various websites and has been widely circulated by e-mail. Ms. Lagace tells quite a convincing tale – or does she? The readers are invited to judge for themselves but with an open mind. My own response is included at the conclusion of the article. Please bear in mind that the tragic situation in Pakistan is far from over.


“Before talking about the disaster in Pakistan, I would like to tell you about this marvelous killing machine called an F-16. You know what a F-16 is, don't you? Well, it's one of the most popular fighter planes in the world.

They cost approximately $40 million each. And of course, during its lifetime, it will have cost one and half the purchase price for maintenance, repairs (and windshield washer, you wouldn't believe the insane price of each can of windshield washer that these toys use).

So, coming back to the disaster in Pakistan .

Terrible! If we weren't talking about a Muslim country, we could refer to the flooding as being of Biblical proportions: 20,000,000 disaster victims. Just appalling.

Over the last two or three days we've been hearing voices accusing the West ( Canada and United States ) of a lack of generosity towards a very seriously afflicted Pakistan . People are being told off in Canada , France and Great-Britain. In yesterday's La Presse, my colleague Marie-Claude Malboeuf mentioned that a humanitarian coalition had barely collected $200,000.00 for Pakistan whereas, during the same period of time, a phenomenal sum of $3,600,000.00 was collected for Haitians after the earthquake that devastated their country. The NGO (non-governmental organizations) are stamping their feet. They are getting impatient. They are clamoring of catastrophe and cholera. The most tragic thing is that they are probably right.

Internationally, the UNO has collected only 40% of the 460 million dollars needed for urgent aid. Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister of England has berated the international community for its stinginess: 'The reaction of the international community is deplorable.'

But I'm extrapolating. I was talking about the F-16. Quite recently, a country acquired a brand new fleet of twenty, or so, of these fantastic killers in the air.

Which country was this now?

Yep, PAKISTAN .

Before going any further, I'm warning you: the writer of this article is a naive journalist. A naive journalist who admits it candidly and who wants to know: If Pakistan had $1.4 billion to acquire fighter planes from Lockheed very recently, why doesn't Pakistan have $460 million to help its own 'drenched' citizens?

I apologize to the Red Cross, to CARE, to Oxfam and other non-governmental organizations, but I, for one, will not give one red penny towards the humanitarian relief in Pakistan .

I will NOT give a penny to help Pakistan because Pakistan never had any problem buying military equipment or getting financial help to buy some.

I don't mind helping Haiti , a small country that has nothing (except corrupted rulers). I don't mind giving for help to Africa ; it's the least I can do.

I will not give to Pakistan as I will not give to the New Orleans fishermen who have lost their source of income since the oil disaster caused by BP in the Gulf of Mexico .

Zachary Richard (a Cajun singer from New Orleans ) is going to produce, with the help of many Quebecois singers, a CD which profits will be given to the New Orleans fishermen. Then, they're planning a charity concert. Concerts are very nice. Musical charity is very nice too. And I do sympathize with the New Orleans fishermen.

But here again, it's your naive journalist who is talking. I wonder why I should give one penny to the inhabitants of the richest country in the history of humanity, whose source of income was annihilated by a giga-multinational company with a market valuation of $120 billion US, and belonging to one of the most lucrative industries 'energy' on this planet.

It seems to me that the United States of America , that BP, that the energy industry have enough money to compensate the New Orleans fishermen and their families and the offspring of their families until 2060, at least.

But let's come back to PAKISTAN . On July 19th, the New York Times published a condemning article on the tax system of Pakistan . A banana republic tax system, where the rich concocted a way to avoid paying taxes.

I'm not talking about not paying a little income tax, I'm talking about total tax evasion. I'm talking about a country where 10 million people should be paying taxes, but only 2.5 million do. And all of this is legal. The rich managed to come up with a plan which dispenses them from paying taxes. The New York Times mentioned that average 'average' worth (?) of Pakistani parliamentarians is $900,000. Nawaz Sharif, the Opposition leader, and a millionaire hasn't, for his part, paid any income taxes in 2005, 2006 and 2007. This system favors elitists, (a system by elitists for elitists) says Riyaz Hussein Naqvi, Pakistani a retired public servant who worked as a tax collector for 38 years. It is a distorted system in which the poor pays for the rich.

What The Times did not mention but which you probably already know, I know that you read the international news in dailies with great interest, is that Pakistan already has nuclear arms. In fact, it owns countless nuclear missiles.

So, if I recap all this:

Pakistan is an oligarchy (a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes) which exempts the rich from paying income tax. Pakistan has money to buy F-16's. Pakistan has money to keep an atomic arsenal capable of destroying half the planet!

I am not that naive after all. Pakistan has the means to help its own people.

Note from Pierre (the fellow who began sending this article around): If I remember well, on September 11th 2001, when the Twin Towers in New York were destroyed by terrorists, yes I do remember very well having seen live television coverage showing adults and children from Iran, Pakistan and other Muslim countries, dancing in the streets and having a whale of a time because the United States had been touched right in the heart. They were elated because thousands of Americans were killed.

Well now that they're in deep sh.., they ask for our help!!! And what will they do to us in five years, in ten years?

NO THANK YOU VERY MUCH”


MY RESPONSE
Accepting this argument, which on the surface seems completely logical, should teach us about the insanity of war. But somehow it doesn’t. Let’s consider an infant, who for no other reason than fate, is born to a poor family in Pakistan. This family is now suffering from a devastating flooding of biblical proportions. Is it the child’s fault that her government spent money (also of biblical proportions) on acquiring arms. Should we focus on giving aid to this child and her family, or should we just ignore them so that we can comfortably continue to live on the profits of manufacturing arms?
Perhaps we should ask why te news media provided inciteful pictures of celebrating but ignorant Pakistanis, Iraqis, and Iranians on the eve of 9/11? What was the purpose behind these pictures, and how does it make us respond to war? How does it make us respond to that unnamed infant in Pakistan? Am I defending Pakistan’s decision to purchase weapons – no absolutely not. This logic actually prevents us from seeking an end to all wars. We need to find ways to help our neighbour instead of building walls.

On the fall of Bishop Lahey

   As reported by the Catholic Register, Oct 1, 2009: OTTAWA - Antigonish  Bishop Raymond J. Lahey turned himself in to Ottawa police Oct. 1 to face charges of possession and importation of child pornography.

The mystics tell us that each of us chose the lives we live before we are born. Even though we may not consciously remember making that choice. What is important however, is that our choice, regardless of the outcome, is lived out to fulfill God’s ultimate plan to perfection. So why would we chose darkness? Again, the mystics tell us that without darkness we would not appreciate the Light that the Creator continually sends forth among us. The choice is ours.

The recent fall of Bishop Raymond J. Lahey was therefore no accident, and it is WE that need to learn from it. To help us to put this situation in its proper context, we might benefit from the following Kabbalistic teaching:

It is heartening to realize that the most negative situations invariably hold the greatest promise for positive growth, for ours is a world of exquisite balance. Therefore, the ultimate darkness is inherently transformable into the brightest of Light.

Each of us is born with the power to transform our nature completely and to achieve a personal state of [the Christ] within. Instead of experiencing guilt or shame- or even worse, apathy-as a consequence of our negative actions, we should be inspired by the opportunity to reshape our soul into the greatest [receptacle] for the Light [of God].

The events and circumstances that brought Bishop Lahey to this point will have to remain an mystery. However, we all share his ‘brokenness’ in one way or another. In a world of pain and suffering there is no scale which measures which ‘sin’ is greater than another. Neither are there any exceptions. Sexual deviations have been with us since time first began. But now is the time for all of us, especially the Church, to exercise Christ’s compassion and understanding. Perhaps we could begin by asking ourselves why we are faced with a pandemic of sexual abuse among the clergy? And, what is it saying about us as members of the world community? Is it perhaps time to bring Light to the situation, free of condemnation and full of compassion? For the Church, and all of us, It is time to explore a healthier approach to our God given sexuality! The Light is among us, we no longer need to hide in darkness.