Thread: North Carolina Pastor calls for the deaths of gays and lesbians

Originally Posted by expatriate

actually, my question was aimed at the "nature" piece and not the "nurture" one. If a lesbian woman got artificially inseminated by the sperm from a gay man, would THAT child be more likely to be homosexual simply by the genetics of the parents?

I think the most honest answer to that question is that we don't know, because it hasn't been studied. This is where I trot out my reminder that genetics isn't simple. The simple model of inheritance that many of us learned at school barely scratches the surface.

Originally Posted by expatriate

I would imagine so... I just wonder if both parents having the gene would increase the probability of passing it on.

Geneticists have not discovered a "gay gene". It's not like a recessive trait where a child of gay parents has a 1 in 4 chance of being gay. There is more to genetics than this. A LOT more.

Originally Posted by Unifier

Dishonest thread premise is dishonest. He advocated segregation. Nowhere in that video did he say anything about killing anyone. He even went so far as to talk about "dropping food" to ensure that they wouldn't starve. You can hate his position all you want, but at least have the integrity to represent it honestly.

How would you intrepret his 1978 sermon in which he rails in anger at gays and lesbians gaining public support, and reminds us that 40 years ago they would have been hung from a White Oak tree?

You are also missing the point: the end goal, while not immediate extermination was still the eventual elimination of homosexuality. I don't find that any less offensive, quite frankly.

Sounds like this preacher is a child molestor over compensating for his sins.