>On 27 Aug, 2007, at 2:17 AM, Michael Pollak wrote:
>>
>> As we saw with Bill Richardson last week, this line has become a
>> defining
> > taboo. If you cross it even by accident...a hue and cry
> > goes up,
>> because that's how society polices its norms.
> >
>
>I...find it...one of the few
>times when a politician said something sensible: not being a
>scientist (and here once can use that term in a broad sense), he has
>no clue of course on whether "gayness" is "inborn" or not. Further,
>as he accurately pointed out, it should not matter. If commentators
>in the gay community are betting their all on the theory that being
>gay is "inborn", that would be a pretty tired and stupid accident,
>indeed!
Yes, but how I wish that at least one of them had the wit to make the Shakespearean reply "Some are born gay; some achieve gayness; and some have gayness thrust upon them."
Shane Mage
"Human sexuality starts with polymorphous perversity"--Freud "By nature, humans are bisexual"--Jung