If they found a way in Europe to test for homosexuality while in the womb, cure it with chromosome therapy (or something like that) and give birth to a straight baby would you be in favor of doing it?
2007-08-26 17:11:25 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
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2007-08-26 17:22:00 · update #1
WHCwarrior - how can you argue that homosexuality is a lifestyle choice? Why would anyone CHOOSE to be the target of ignorant bigotry and hatred?
2007-08-26 17:50:57 · answer #1 · answered by Sageandscholar 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
There are many choices in life. Some that effect only ourselves and some that effect others. When it comes to choices that effect only ourselves then it is those choices that should remain between a man and his God. However, when it comes to the choices we make in life that effect others especially the innocent or those that have no voice it is up to us all to help and defend them.
This is obviously an attempt at a leading question. Your trying to create a situation that would seem to put a person of faith at odds with their own beliefs. Did it work? Are you satisfied with yourself?
While you may believe that human life doesn't begin until a child draw its own breath, science and human history would differ. So in order to further your own agenda you would devalue human life? Many peoples throughout history have done this most recently the Nazis. As for human sexuality, I won't argue the morality or whether homosexuality is normal. I will say this, that is between two consenting adults.
So, no I would not endorse stem cell research to "cure" homosexuality.
Let me ask you a few questions. Would you kill your own brother or son or father to save your own life? Would you kill a stranger to save your own life? How much more important is your own life than the life of an unborn child? How much money and time is an unborn childs life worth?
***If ONE child in all the aborted babies or embryonic stem cells were to become a doctor that would cure all forms of cancer, but you don't know which one, would you stop abortion/stem cell research?
2007-08-26 23:21:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course they would. Albert Mohler of the Louisville Baptist Seminary did just that on his blog. If you could convince them that global warming caused homosexuality, they would sudden be all over stopping global warming too. The truth is some conservatives hate freedom and America.
The simple truth is that it should not matter whether homosexuality is a choice or not. Ken makes the point no one is ever asked to defend if they were born liberal or conservative. Why should homosexuality be any different? Personally, I don't think there is anything to cure. People should have the right to make choices about their own sexuality but like I said (and some of these answers prove) many in the conservative movement hate freedom.
2007-08-26 18:11:46 · answer #3 · answered by God 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Answer the question folks; if there was a way (assuming that homosexuality was a genetic trait) to make a baby genetically destined to be gay, straight, would you support it?
Humans are different from their animal cousins, but when research finds that there could be a genetic tag that can show when a ram is not attracted to ewes, it is a possiblity that there is one in the human genome.
And my answer:
I am in favor of stem cell research, but would much rather have that time spent on curing actual illnesses rather than false ones.
2007-08-26 17:23:25 · answer #4 · answered by K 5 · 7⤊ 0⤋
How a great number of that funds would be taken from the undesirable and elderly to fund growing to be tumors on rats? "we are able to’t say how long it incredibly is going to take to locate new remedies for any particular sickness utilising embryonic stem cells. Biomedical learn frequently has a timeframe of 10, 20, even 30 years. Fourteen years elapsed between the 1st unsuccessful scientific trial of bone marrow transplantation and the 1st valuable transplant between unrelated sufferers. Now bone marrow transplants are broadly touted via fact the ideal occasion of a valuable stem cellular therapy."
2016-10-17 02:06:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer above by K hit the nail on the head.
It's a hypothetical question intended to ask religious conservatives to weigh and decide between their probable opposition to homosexuality and their probable opposition to stem cell research.
And my answer is also:
Stem cell research, even if it could reverse homosexuality, would be better used for the purposes of treating or curing true illnesses, rather than sexual preferences. I'd be in favor of stem cell research in any event.
2007-08-26 17:30:02 · answer #6 · answered by Buying is Voting 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Please do not capitalize the word Conservatives in this context, For some of us the capitalized version means almost exactly the opposite of the lower case version, as you are using it in this case. I am not part of your target audience but as long as I'm on here I'll answer.
I would make such a treatment available to any competent adult who wanted it, even though I believe it is a mistake, the same way I approve of sex change operations. I don't understand the rationale of the people who do that either, but it is their life and their choice. I don't know if I would allow parents to administer it to their unborn children, that is a new one on me and I'll have to think about it.
Sign me, "one of Heinlein's children."
edit: If we get genetic manipulation to the point my children could have wings, would you allow that? How about optimized for living in space?
2007-08-27 04:02:42 · answer #7 · answered by balloon buster 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not against stem cell research...I am against embryonic stem cell research...adult stem cell research is much more promising anyway...perhaps your cure is in there.
Otherwise my answer is no it would change nothing about where I stand on the issue. I am now and will always be against killing babies for research.
2007-08-27 01:41:31 · answer #8 · answered by Erinyes 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The only way I would consider Stem Cell Research is if it cured liberals ignorance.
2007-08-26 23:02:24 · answer #9 · answered by Rocman 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
whcwarrior_10, you really have no real clue on the roles that genes play in behavior do you? Or even what happens when a cell divides huh?
First you would have to teach them enough to understand what stem cell research really is, how genetic material can be altered during the cell cycle, and how genes play an important role in behavior.
2007-08-26 18:57:56 · answer #10 · answered by avail_skillz 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋