HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE

This is an academic site but accessible to interested readers

Huge amounts of impartial scientific evidence now make it abundantly clear that homosexuality is not biologically hard-wired and that change is possible. The burden of proof now lies on those who are convinced homosexuality is biologically imprinted.

Sexuality is fluid. The brain is plastic. It is changed by what we habitually think and do.

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The book, My Genes Made Me Do It! Homosexuality and the Science was the outcome of a 20 year research project conducted by Dr Neil Whitehead, a man with a 40-year career in science and statistics and a PhD in biochemistry. It drew on research from all sides of the debate and showed - in the end - that homosexuality was not biologically imprinted, but was predominantly environmental (90%) and therefore greatly responsive to therapy and support. It showed that gays were not born gay and didn't have to stay gay if they didn't want to.

It ran into a tsunami of opposition from a swathe of western institutions committed to  human rights and increasingly unable or unwilling to listen to carefully derived, objective facts. Throughout the West mental health professionals followed their governing boards' new policy directives, led by the American Psychological Association, itself led by its activist gay and lesbian caucus who relished their success. The United Nations sent out recommendations  to participating nations to enshrine gay rights in their legislation. Even the Church was not able to withstand the tsunami and steadily evolved a theology that protected widespread homosexuality at highest levels and through the ranks: any attempts to help people out of unwanted homosexuality could only cause harm and should be strenuously resisted. The truly redemptive act became celebration of homosexuality rather than an informed understanding of contributing environmental factors that could be resolved as part of the church's mandate to share the Good News. 

The Linacre Quarterly - the official publication of the Catholic Medical Association - published a research paper (10 years in the making) showing men with unwanted same-sex attraction benefited considerably from assisted support - but one year later retracted the paper and retained the copyright, making the research paper impossible to publish in that form anywhere else. (Behaviour almost unheard of from a professional journal! - and just another example of unwillingness to tolerate open scientific discussion on this most "sensitive" of subjects!)

More recently "Conversion Ban" legislation has followed in the West, making any attempt of any kind at assisted change of homosexual orientation a criminal offence carrying penalties of fines and up to 3 years imprisonment (at least in New Zealand), consent being no defence - though the same legislation opens wide the process of assisted sex change to any transsexual seeking help to do so.

My Genes Made Me Do It! has somehow weathered the storm. Like seed it has found good ground all over the world - and over the last 20 years has had seven translations. You can't keep the simple truth out forever.

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