Isn't this the same hope that Christian right lives in, that homosexuality can be "overcome, supressed, muted, renedered trivial" by cultural re-programming? Acknowledging the likelihood of homosexuality's natural origins not only illuminates the futility but also the cruelty of such attempts.
> Charles writes:
>
>> But is all instinct, including especially heterosexual
> instinct, obliterated in all members of the human
> species? By obliterated I mean overcome, suppressed,
> muted, rendered trivial by socially constructed/socio-historical
> or cultural or "nurtured" rules and codes?
>
> We live in hope Charles, we live in hope.
>
> Brian Dauth
> Queer Buddhist Resister