The Best Theories On Everything (Volume IV)
The “Believing In Religion” Theory: I respect religion for inspiring men to overcome untold adversity by hitching themselves to a cause greater than themselves and trying to help others. I disrespect religion for inspiring men to subjugate women and minorities, wage crusades and unspeakable persecutions in the name of a cause greater than themselves.
I don’t believe in religion. I believe in the hopelessly pragmatic. I believe in whatever-gets-you-out-of-bed-in-the-morning-to-help-others.
I believe you don’t need an aged book to tell you to respect your neighbor. I believe in the Book of John Stuart Mill, “The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.”
The “Church Is Wrong About Gays” Theory: Christianity rails against homosexuality as unnatural, against God’s plan, and seeks to “save” gays.
Reference
“You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination. . . . If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them” –Leviticus. 18:22, 20:13
Scientists have pinpointed gay genes in humans as well as in animals.
Reference(s)
^ a b c d e Bruce Bagemihl, Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity, St. Martin’s Press, 1999;ISBN 0-312-19239-8
^ Harrold, Max (1999-02-16). “Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity”. The Advocate, reprinted in Highbeam Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
^ Gordon, Dr Dennis (10 April 2007). “‘Catalogue of Life’ reaches one million species”. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
^ Calvin Reid Gay Lib for the Animals: A New Look At Homosexuality in Nature. Volume 245 Issue 5 02/01/1999, Feb 01, 1999
^ “Same-sex Behavior Seen In Nearly All Animals, Review Finds”, Science Daily
^ “Same-sex behavior seen in nearly all animals”. Physorg.com. 2009-06-16. Retrieved 2010-11-17.
^ Levay, Simon (1996). Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. p. 207.
^ a b Animal Homosexuality: A Biosocial Perspective By Aldo Poiani, A. F. Dixson, Aldo Poiani, A. F. Dixson, p. 179, 2010, Cambridge University Press
^ a b Levay, Simon (2011). Gay, Straight, and The Reason Why The Science of Sexual Orientation. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Oxford University Press. pp. 70–71.
^ a b Smith, Dinitia (February 7, 2004). “Love That Dare Not Squeak Its Name”. New York Times. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
^ The first known use of the word Homoseksuäl is found in Benkert Kertbeny, K.M. (1869): Paragraph 143 des Preussichen Strafgesetzebuches vom 14/4-1851 und seine Aufrechterhaltung als Paragraph 152 im Entwurf eines Strafgesetzbuches fur den Norddeutschen Bundes, Leipzig, 1869. Reprinted in Jahrbuch fur sexuelle Zwischenstufen 7 (1905), pp. 1-66
^ Dorit, Robert (September–October 2004). “Rethinking Sex”. American Scientist. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
^ a b Bagemihl 1999, pp. 122-166.
^ Joan Roughgarden, Evolutions rainbow: Diversity, gender and sexuality in nature and people, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004; pp.13-183
^ Vasey, Paul L. (1995), Homosexual behaviour in primates: A review of evidence and theory, International Journal of Primatology 16: p 173-204
^ a b Sommer, Volker & Paul L. Vasey (2006), Homosexual Behaviour in Animals, An Evolutionary Perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-86446-1
^ a b Douglas, Kate (December 7, 2009). “Homosexual selection: The power of same-sex liaisons”. New Scientist. Retrieved 2009-12-21.
^ a b Gailey, D. A.; Hall (J.C.). “Behavior and Cytogenetics of fruitless in Drosophila melanogaster: Different Courtship Defects Caused by Separate, Closely Linked Lesions”. Genetics (The Genetics Society of America) 121 (4): 773–785.PMC 1203660. PMID 2542123. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
^ Bagemihl, Bruce (1999). Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity. New York, New York: St. Martin’s Press.
^ a b Bagemihl, Bruce (1999). Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity. New York, New York: St. Martin’s Press. pp. 164. (…etc.)
And Finally, The “2013 America At Its Finest (Even If The Car’s European) Super Bowl Ad” Theory: As Told By Kate Upton
