Homosexuality and Genetics

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HomosexualityandGenetics

• Do science and the bible agree?

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I am not Homophobic

• I am not afraid of homosexuals. I am
• a musician,
• actor,
• performer
• and have worked extensively in the theater
• I am not against homosexuals.
• College roommate
• Many students
• Because I choose a biblical life I am opposed to
  homosexuality.

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Some Christians think its all right!

• So what does the bible say?
• 'If there is a man who lies with a male as those
  who lie with a woman, both of them have committed
  a detestable act they shall surely be put to
  death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.
  Leviticus 2013

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Some Christians think its all right!

• So what does the bible say?
• For since the creation of the world His (G-ds)
  invisible attributes, His eternal power and
  divine nature, have been clearly seen, being
  understood through what has been made, so that
  they are without excuse. For even though they
  knew G-d, they did not honor Him as G-d, or give
  thanks but they became futile in their
  speculations, and their foolish heart was
  darkened. Professing to be wise, they became
  fools, and exchanged the glory of the
  incorruptible G-d for an image in the form of
  corruptible man and of birds and four-footed
  animals and crawling creatures.

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Some Christians think its all right!

• So what does the bible say?
• Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of
  their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies
  would be dishonored among them. For they
  exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and
  worshiped and served the creature rather than the
  Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this
  reason God gave them over to degrading passions
  for their women exchanged the natural function
  for that which is unnatural, and in the same way
  also the men abandoned the natural function of
  the woman and burned in their desire toward one
  another, men with men committing indecent acts
  and receiving in their own persons the due
  penalty of their error. Romans 120-27

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But Jesus is love and mercy!
and

• Arent they born that way?

If G-d made them that way why would He judge
them to hell?
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Response

• There probably is a gene for homosexuality.
• There probably is also a gene for adultery and/or
  perversion, for being a thief, a liar even
  murder.
• The condition of the flesh is an open door to
  Satan and demonic manifestations in every
  conceivable form. The choice is to obey even
  when the flesh desires a wrong thing.

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How can you say its a wrong thing?

• I dont see that a same-sex family in my
  community effects me and my household at all?

Its not determinately against you, its against
The Creator Himself!
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The Truth

• In 1993 Dean Hamer and colleagues published
  findings from a linkage analysis of a sample of
  76 homosexual brothers and their families. Hamer
  (and his colleagues) found that the homosexual
  men had more homosexual male uncles and cousins
  on the mothers side of the family than on the
  fathers side. Homosexual brothers who showed
  this maternal pedigree were then tested for X
  chromosome linkage, using twenty-two markers on
  the X chromosome to test for similar alleles
  (ah-leels, any of several forms of a gene,
  usually arising through mutation, that are
  responsible for hereditary variation).

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The Truth

• In another finding, thirty-three of the forty
  sibling pairs tested were found to have similar
  alleles in the distal region of Xq28, which was
  significantly higher than the expected rates of
  50 for fraternal brothers. This was popularly
  dubbed as the 'gay gene' in the media, causing
  significant controversy. Sanders et al. in 1998
  reported on their similar study, in which they
  found that 13 of uncles of gay brothers on the
  maternal side were homosexual, compared to 6 on
  the paternal side.

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The Truth

• A later analysis by Hu et al. replicated and
  refined the earlier findings. This study
  revealed that 67 of homosexual brothers in a new
  saturated sample shared a marker on the X
  chromosome at Xq28. Although two other studies
  (Bailey et al., 1999 McKnight and Malcolm, 2000)
  failed to find a preponderance of homosexual
  relatives in the maternal (mothers) line of
  homosexual men, a rigorous replication of the
  maternal loading was reported on samples in Italy
  and England. One study by Rice et al. in 1999
  failed to replicate the Xq28 linkage results.
  Meta-analysis of all available linkage data
  indicates a significant link to Xq28, but also
  indicates that additional genes must be present
  to account for the full heritability of sexual
  orientation. A recent study of 894 heterosexual
  and 694 homosexual men found no evidence of sex
  linkage.
• Wikipedia Chromosome linkage studies

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But Oprah said
Youre not going to get the truth on television
talk shows
because its not expedient for the social agenda
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Can Changes Occur within a Lifetime?
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EPIGENETICS

• The modern usage of the word in scientific
  discourse refers to heritable traits (over rounds
  of cell division and sometimes transgenerationally
  ) that do not involve changes to the underlying
  DNA sequence. The Greek prefix epi- in
  epigenetics implies features that are "on top of"
  or "in addition to" genetics thus epigenetic
  traits exist on top of or in addition to the
  traditional molecular basis for inheritance.

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Molecular basis of Epigenetics

• The molecular basis of epigenetics involves
  modifications of the activation of certain genes,
  but not the basic structure of DNA. Additionally,
  the chromatin proteins associated with DNA may be
  activated or silenced. This accounts for why the
  differentiated cells in a multi-cellular organism
  express only the genes that are necessary for
  their own activity. Epigenetic changes are
  preserved when cells divide. Most epigenetic
  changes only occur within the course of one
  individual organism's lifetime, but, if a
  mutation in the DNA has been caused in sperm or
  egg cell that results in fertilization, then some
  epigenetic changes are inherited from one
  generation to the next. This raises the question
  of whether or not epigenetic changes in an
  organism can alter the basic structure of its
  DNA, a form of Lamarckism.

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Epigenetic Studies

• A recent study suggests linkage between a
  mother's genetic make-up and homosexuality of her
  sons. Women have two X chromosomes, one of which
  is "switched off." The inactivation of the X
  chromosome occurs randomly throughout the embryo,
  resulting in cells that are mosaic with respect
  to which chromosome is active. In some cases
  though, it appears that this switching off can
  occur in a non-random fashion. Bocklandt et al.
  (2006) reported that, in mothers of homosexual
  men, the number of women with extreme skewing of
  X chromosome inactivation is significantly higher
  than in mothers without gay sons. Thirteen
  percent of mothers with one gay son, and 23 of
  mothers with two gay sons showed extreme skewing,
  compared to 4 percent of mothers without gay
  sons.

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Epigenetic Conclusions

• Epi-genes can be turned on or off within an
  individuals life-time based on their environment
  (and choices).
• Epi-genes can be passed down (mother to son)
• Epi-genes may possibly effect permanent changes
  in DNA.

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Generational Curse

• You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any
  likeness of what is in heaven above or on the
  earth beneath or in the water under the earth.
  You shall not worship them or serve them for I,
  the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the
  iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the
  third and the fourth generations of those who
  hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands,
  to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
  Exodus 204-6

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Body, soul and spirit(s)
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A Closer Look
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• For this commandment which I command you today is
  not too difficult for you, nor is it out of
  reach. It is not in heaven, that you should say,
  "Who will go up to heaven for us to get it for us
  and make us hear it, that we may observe it?"
  Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say,
  "Who will cross the sea for us to get it for us
  and make us hear it, that we may observe it?" But
  the word is very near you, in your mouth and in
  your heart, that you may observe it. See, I have
  set before you today life and prosperity, and
  death and adversity in that I command you today
  to love the L-RD your G-d, to walk in His ways
  and to keep His commandments and His statutes and
  His judgments, that you may live and multiply,
  and that the L-RD your G-d may bless you in the
  land where you are entering to possess it.
• Deuteronomy 3011-16

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• I call heaven and earth to witness against you
  today, that I have set before you life and death,
  the blessing and the curse. So choose life in
  order that you may live, you and your
  descendants, by loving the L-RD your G-d, by
  obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him
  for this is your life and the length of your
  days, that you may live in the land which the
  L-RD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac,
  and Jacob, to give them.
• Deuteronomy 3019-20

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Where does this leave us?

• Its still each individuals choice and in the
  end we will be judged according to what we chose.
• The United States and all the nations are
  pressing forward down the road of
  self-destruction, and everyone thinks the changes
  they are making will make things better.
• People go about saying G-d bless America while
  defiantly pushing behaviors that are against His
  nature and being in His face.

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Where does this leave us?

• Let the United States do what it wants, as for
  me and my house we will serve the L-rd. Joshua
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• And as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of
  heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, raise the
  dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons freely
  you have received, freely give. Matthew 107-8

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DELIVERANCE IS AVAILABLE!

• Choose life!