Guess what I learned in Bio today about gay people, mommy!
So my biology instructor decided to spend today's lecture discussing biological aspects concerning specific propositions up for ballot--the energy one, the animal cruelty one, and the gay marriage one.
Despite the inscindiary commentary of "Yes" versus "No" people going at each other's throats today in the classroom (I personally prefer the drawn-out quiet approach to debates where we, you know, actually let people finish their sentences), I discovered something quite informative that I'm not sure if other people in the class quite picked up on.
Apparently, there IS a biological difference between a gay person and a straight person--aka, on a cellular, scientific, biological level, there is something that differentiates a straight person from a gay person--much like melanin content differentiates someone with dark skin from someone with white skin.
Located on the brain stem is a gland that connects the nervous system with the endocrine system, the hypothalamus. It regulates things like thirst, hunger, body temperature, fatigue, and most relevant to this subject, attraction.
The shape of the hypothalamus in a gay person is different from that of a straight person--the exact difference I don't know (my teacher didn't say), but the discrepancy between shapes is significant enough that if you were to be handed pictures of people's hypothalamuses, you could tell which ones were gay and which ones were straight.
Basically?
Proposition 8 is part of the new generation of Jim Crow laws that focus on homosexuals.
Funny--last time I checked, the reasons for the establishment of Jim Crow laws, i.e. the reasoning that black people were lower than whites had to do with religion, too.
Despite the inscindiary commentary of "Yes" versus "No" people going at each other's throats today in the classroom (I personally prefer the drawn-out quiet approach to debates where we, you know, actually let people finish their sentences), I discovered something quite informative that I'm not sure if other people in the class quite picked up on.
Apparently, there IS a biological difference between a gay person and a straight person--aka, on a cellular, scientific, biological level, there is something that differentiates a straight person from a gay person--much like melanin content differentiates someone with dark skin from someone with white skin.
Located on the brain stem is a gland that connects the nervous system with the endocrine system, the hypothalamus. It regulates things like thirst, hunger, body temperature, fatigue, and most relevant to this subject, attraction.
The shape of the hypothalamus in a gay person is different from that of a straight person--the exact difference I don't know (my teacher didn't say), but the discrepancy between shapes is significant enough that if you were to be handed pictures of people's hypothalamuses, you could tell which ones were gay and which ones were straight.
Basically?
Proposition 8 is part of the new generation of Jim Crow laws that focus on homosexuals.
Funny--last time I checked, the reasons for the establishment of Jim Crow laws, i.e. the reasoning that black people were lower than whites had to do with religion, too.