Are we born that way?

Another scientific study has come out in favor of this theory in the ongoing debate on whether gays and lesbians choose their homosexuality or it chooses them.

This same group of scientists had already carried out a similar study a year ago, whose results clearly showed how gay men's brains behaved more like those of straight women then straight men (DUH!!).

This study concentrated on lesbians' brains, and although the results were less pronounced than in the previous study, it still concluded that lesbians' brains behave more like those of straight men that straight women.

Homosexuals' brains respond differently from those of straight men and women when exposed to sex hormones, but researchers now say the difference is less pronounced in lesbians than in gay men.

Lesbians' brains reacted somewhat, though not completely, like those of heterosexual men, a team of Swedish researchers said in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A year ago, the same group reported findings for gay men that showed their brain response to hormones was similar to that of heterosexual women.

In both cases the findings add weight to the idea that homosexuality has a physical basis and is not learned behavior.
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"The important thing is to be open to the likely situation that there are biological factors that contribute to sexual orientation," added Witelson, who was not part of the research team.

This is naturally very good news for us, since it enforces our long held position that we shouldn't be criminalized or marginalized for who we're attracted to, because for us it's only natural, and these studies prove exactly that.

We're as normal as heterosexuals are and therefore should be treated as such.

Not something any religious zealot would ever agree on, and certainly a position they'll fight hard to keep out of the mainstream way of thinking.