Hamer Study
April 28, 2010 // afaofpa // Homosexual AgendaAdditional ‘gay gene’ studies can be found here.
Hamer Study:
Dean Hamer, et al., of the National Cancer Institute, “A Linkage between DNA markers on the X Chromosome and Male Sexual Orientation,” reported in Science magazine, July 1993. The media reported that the “gay gene” was discovered as a result of this study. The researchers studied 40 pairs of homosexual brothers and suggested that some cases of homosexuality are linked to a specific region on the X chromosome (Xq28) inherited from the mother to her homosexual son. Thirty-three pairs of brothers shared the same pattern variation in the tip of one arm of the chromosome. Hamer estimated that the sequence of the given genetic markers on Xq28 is linked to homosexuality in 64% of the brothers.
- There was no control group. This poor scientific methodology. Hamer and associates failed to test the heterosexual brothers. What if the heterosexual brothers had the same genetic markers? Source: Cohen, Richard (2000). Coming Out Straight: Understanding and Healing Homosexuality, Chapter 2.
- One of Hamer’s fellow research assistants brought him up on charges, saying that he withheld some of the findings that invalidated his study. The National Cancer Institute is investigating Hamer. (To date, they have not released the results of this investigation.) Source: (1995) NIH “Gay Gene” Study Questioned. Science 268:1841.
- A Canadian research team using a similar experimental design (This study used 52 pairs of gay siblings from 48 families. Hamer’s research used 40 homosexual brother pairs.) was unable to duplicate the findings of Hamer’s study. Source: Rice, G., Anderson, C., Risch, N., Ebers, G. (1995) Male Homosexuality: Absence of Linkage to Microsatelite Markers on the X Chromosome in a Canadian Study. Presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of Sex Research. Provincetown, MA.
- Hamer states, “These genes do not cause people to become homosexuals…ultimately, it is the environment that determines how these genes will express themselves.” Source: Time, April 27, 1998, p. 60-61.
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS CONCERNING HAMER STUDY:
1993 Hamer announces there is a “gay gene,” as reported in Science magazine.
1993 November 21, PFLAG meeting in Maryland: According to an eyewitness account by Peter LeBarbera, Dean Hamer told the audience that he was pleased with media coverage.
Hamer said, “If you tell the press what to write about a scientific study, they’ll write it.” He added that he told reporters that his study’s findings show that sexual orientation is like being “left-handed,” and that they obliged him: “That’s what I told them to say, and they said it.” Source: Peter L. LaBarbera, “’Born Gay’ Researcher Explodes at LR,” Lambda Report on Homosexuality, December-January 1994, p. 17
1994 The National Cancer Institute investigates Hamer.
1998 Hamer acknowledges that there is no “gay gene.”
PFLAG has created a booklet, entitled “Why Ask Why?,” addressing the research on homosexuality and biology. The pamphlet says: To date, no researcher has claimed that genes can determine sexual orientation. At best, researchers believe that there may be a genetic component. No human behavior, let alone sexual behavior, has been connected to genetic markers to date…sexuality, like every other behavior, is undoubtedly influenced by both biological and societal factors.
Topics: Dean Hamer, gay gene
Since God made us in His image, and said He wants ALL who come to Jesus, to be saved, why would he create those to never have a chance, Homosexuality is a choice. God is not a homosexual. He just declares it an abomination and will not enter into Heaven
what if i’m a homosexual and i do come to Jesus? how do you know that God is not a homosexual?
If God was a homosexual why would he want to create a woman for Adam? Genesis 2:18,22-24 say, “The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone, I will make a helper suitable for him.’ Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.’ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.”
Jesus never said that homosexuality was an abomination first of all. the first five books of the Bible were written to create some type of order over the people of the land because their was no order, so laws were put into place.There are alot of contradictions about the Bible, and there is some of it that I believe to be true and some that I don’t believe.The Same way that God gave us the ability to know right from wrong , he gave us the insight to know that everybody is unique and different. What everybody needs to do is really see the Bible for what it is …a guide to how to live a peaceful life and get to God as close as you the individual can get. Jesus was so unlike man in that he DIDN’t turn away from those that society deemed as sinful or wrong. The woman that was caught having odultry was brought to him and the people were going to stone her,and mind you that was the LAW OF THE LAND to stone her, but it wasn’t Jesus’ law, we always want to say what we THINK JESUS would say or do, the fact of the matter is he said ” let he who is without sin cast the first stone” Nobody was able to stone her, the law said that she was to be stoned-The law of the land.The Bible says that if we are to look at another man’s wife, we are to have our eyes gauged out our head- another law of the land, the reason that we don’t follow that law today is because of two reasons, 1st it was written by a people for a specific people-the JEws. 2nd,We don’t follow that law today because it was man-made law to gain order, it wasn’t GODS law, as so many laws/rules in the Bible.We need to stop telling others what they should believe and what God feels towards them and just pray the each person has their own relationship with God.Just as Job was healed of sickness and had lost everything he had , and Lazurus was raised from the dead,the woman who was healed of a blood disease just by touching the hem of Jesus’s garment, we all have our own unique individual relationship with him an nobody has the right to tell me how my relationship with him doesn’t compare. Nobody has a heaven or a hell to put me in or you.
Jesus lived in 1st century Palestine, where homosexuality was known to be against the laws of nature and God. Jesus most definitely addressed the issue of homosexual “marriage,” when in Matthew 19 he quotes from Genesis 2:27 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.” Actually it was Jesus who said that about gouging eyes out! Jesus said in Matthew 5, “You have heard that it is said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. it is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.” Leviticus 1 starts with, “The Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting. He said, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them . . . .” Most of the chapters in Leviticus begin with “The Lord said to Moses.” Because of the sin of Adam and Eve we are all born with original sin. Jesus, the Son of God, was the only one to walk this earth who was not born into sin and never sinned during his 33 years on earth. Yes, Jesus did mingle with sinners whether it be cheaters, adulterers or the demon-possessed. The passage you refer to in your post – Matthew 8:1-11 is not found in the earliest and most reliable manuscripts. But note, if it did occur, (1) the Pharisees were trying to lay a trap for Jesus in presenting the woman to him and Jesus recognized their intent and (2) Jesus told the woman to go and sin no more. God is a holy God and will not allow sin in His presence. Agreed, we are all unique individuals, but God has the same plan of salvation for everyone. The same requirements apply to all. You describe the Bible as “a guide to how to live a peaceful life.” This is how Jesus described the future for those who followed Him, “Be on your guard against men; they will hand you over to the local councils and flog you . . . . All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.” (Matthew 10: 17, 22)