The origin of homosexuality is no longer "inexplicable"
Reflections sent to us by Massimo Battaglio
An important one search On the origin of homosexuality it is making all the media fibrillars in the world. It is a study carried out at the General Hospital in Boston. Author is the Italian Andrea Ganna. With his working group, he examined the genetic heritage of almost half a million people of different sexual orientation. The conclusions, reported by the Science magazine, are interesting.
"5 specific points of the genome emerge significantly associated with non -heterosexual behavior". Moreover: "These 5 variants are linked to DNA areas associated with the perception of smells and sex hormones".
Scientists clarify:
It is not the phantom "gay gene". Casomai, some genetic combinations have been found among homosexual individuals. These are, and it is important, combinations of the same vital matter that we are all made. No sick or special genes. Simple combinatory variations of perfectly healthy genes.
These variations do not completely explain the origin of homosexuality but reveal an important part of it. Help "Understanding the heterogeneity of homosexual behavior". Allow you to "Studying how a genetic component changes the phenotype depending on the environment".
Genetics and "environment":
Our authors reiterate that they do not only be homosexuality on biological bases if they do not interact with "external" causes. Nor, on the contrary, the environment alone generates homosexuality. And be careful: "environment" does not mean culture, society or an ideology capable of inducing non -compliant behaviors. For scientists, "environment" simply means what is extraneous to the individual's cellular conformation.
It is an important punctualization because I have already happened to record reactions of a detestable gross. In particular, it was up to me to read the comment of an author that I will not name for decency, who speaks of "gay viruses":
"More than gay gene, it would be correct to speak of gay viruses. If nobody was born with the gene of homosexuality, everyone, and in particular the younger generations, are at risk of contamination from the ideology of gender".
Here is one who understood everything. Rather it seems to me that the search for dr. Ganna ingloriously send all the ghosts to the gender together with their inventors in the attic
including ecclesiastical ones.
After this study, it will be difficult to continue to say, as persuade to make the catechism of 1992, that the genesis of homosexuality "It remains largely inexplicable".
Not that this search gives all the answers but starts to propose a good part of it. If he didn't take it into account and continue to chase the now imaginative "Psychic origin" With which to explain everything, we would get to a paradox. The one for which catechism denies a truth. Which, for a text designed to explain the truth, is a bit serious.
It seems to me that this new scientific discovery also contributes to highlighting how fragile Catholic doctrine on our themes is. The writing references (sodom, levitic etc.) more and more misleading appear. The alive testimonies are not lacking. Thanks to the institutes of marriage Same Sex and civil unions, many homosexual love stories emerge certainly not definable as "Serious depravations". Now also biology contributes to demolish that "inexplicable".
It is appropriate to say that the notorious articles 2357, 2358, 2359 CCC must be reformulated. Not so much for sympathy or mercy towards us but for the love of truth.
