A Stitch in Haste

A comment I left at John Tierney's blog on the return of the great gay fruit fly debate:

Given that we still allow parents to mutilate their newborn baby boys for no legitimate medical reason (and "legitimate religious or cultural reason" is of course an oxymoron), it's not hard to deduce that parental "compulsory heterosexualition" of their offspring would also be allowed today -- if it were scientifically possible. (See also the movie "Twilight of the Golds.")

Tomorrow, meanwhile, is an open question.

My thesis is unchanged: To the bigots, this sort of research is irrelevant, because to them if being gay is genetic (or "neurochemical"), then it's a "disease;" if it isn't, then it's a "choice." Either way, they have an entire canon of lies with which to respond. Which means gays and the gay-friendly need to be prepared for either potentiality.