Aineo wrote:The reason you can't be bothered to look for empirical evidence is there is none. If practicing what Scripture labels immoral and carriers the same judgment as adultery, murder, stealing, and lying upsets you that is your problem. Like I have posted before you came here I did not seek you out.

If you can't stand the heat don't let the door hit you on the way out.

show me some empirical evidence from a non-aligned academic study that proves that people's unhappiness with being gay does NOT stem from the cultural and conditioning that they are imbued with from a very young age. THAT is the cause for people's unhappiness at discovering they are homosexual.

show me some empirical evidence from an unbiased source - a university or academic study - by someone who is not and has never been either (a) gay or (b) in any way connected at present or in the past with any Christian organisation that homosexuality is an illness.

here ya go. italian scientist had something to say, just last month.
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Study links genes, male homosexuality
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 Posted: 12:52 PM EDT (1652 GMT)

Genetic factors, along with cultural and early experiences, influence male homosexuality, Italian scientists said on Wednesday.

Researchers at the University of Padua said the genetic components are linked to the X chromosome which is inherited only from the mother. But they are probably on other chromosomes and could partly explain male homosexuality.

"The key factor is that these genes both influence homosexuality in men, higher fecundity in females and are in the maternal and not the paternal line," Andrea Camperio-Ciani, who headed the research team, said in an interview.

More than a decade ago scientists in the United States reported that they had found evidence of a "gay gene" in men. But other researchers questioned the finding when they could not duplicate the results.

Camperio-Ciani and his team suggest there several genes could be involved, including those on the X chromosome.

In their research, which is reported in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, they found an increase in homosexuality in the maternal line of gay men they studied which suggests the X chromosome.

"We know that at least one of these genetic factors in on the X chromosome but that it not enough, there must be other genetic factors that are important but are elsewhere," Camperio-Ciani added.

The results are based on a study of 98 homosexual and 100 heterosexual men and about 4,600 of their relatives. The scientists compared the frequency of gay men on the maternal and paternal lines of the families.

Among homosexuals there were a greater number of gay men in the maternal line of the family, as well as greater fertility in the female relatives.

An early interest in sex before the age of 10 was also a predictor of homosexuality, according to the researchers.

"We can no longer say that is it impossible to have a gene that influences homosexuality because we found out that genes might have different effects depending on gender," Camperio-Ciani.

But he added that cultural and individual experience also play a part.