A scientific study of a Danish population of homosexual men and women (see: https://www.newscientist.com/…/2155810-what-do-the-new-ga…/…)
shows a significant statistical linkage with a gene called TSHR associated with certain thyroidal pathologies in homosexual men and women, notably, “in a genetic condition called Grave’s disease, which causes the thyroid gland to become over-active, accelerating metabolism and leading to weight loss. Grave’s disease is more common in gay than straight men, and some research suggests that gay men tend to be thinner — which might be the result of thyroid overdrive.”
shows a significant statistical linkage with a gene called TSHR associated with certain thyroidal pathologies in homosexual men and women, notably, “in a genetic condition called Grave’s disease, which causes the thyroid gland to become over-active, accelerating metabolism and leading to weight loss. Grave’s disease is more common in gay than straight men, and some research suggests that gay men tend to be thinner — which might be the result of thyroid overdrive.”
Other notable pathologies in that homosexual population linked to a higher hospitalization rate than is so for a straight population are: Hashimoto's thyroiditis, primary biliary cirrhosis, psoriasis, rheumatic fever, myasthenia gravis, and localized scleroderma (with an exception being Dupuytren's contracture).
So, we may conclude that a tendency for choosing the homosexual lifestyle may be itself as much a God-disapproved, sinful aberrant in the human genome as are the God-disapproved, sinful inheritances of any of the other diseases afflicting humans, as for example, alcoholism. But just as we may rightly and Scripturally hold that alcoholics should respond to education for overcoming any tendency for being a drunkard, so also may we rightly hold that persons inheriting a predisposition to homosexuality should also refrain from practicing it. In fact, we rightly and Scripturally hold that all straight men and women should educate themselves to what is God’s will in order to refrain from premarital and extra-marital sexual relations, even though the natural, normative, and God-approved inheritance of heterosexuality can result in a powerful drive to engage in sexual relations with a member of the opposite sex.
Just the same, however, is the fact that the right kind of environment (parental nurture, and our free-will choice of friends/associates) is crucial as respects conformity to God’s will no matter whatever happens to be the inherited sexual tendency in any individual. The bottom line is that genetics is not determinate as respects the likelihood that the homosexual lifestyle may be practiced, for we are reminded that not even all men who have the “gay” variants of certain genes are gay! One group of scientists (Alan Sanders at North Shore University, Illinois, and his team) investigating homosexuality reminds us that many other factors play a role, including the environment. Also, says Sanders (see article in the NewScientist journal quoted above), “There are probably multiple genes involved, each with a fairly low effect . . . There will be men who have the form of gene that increases the chance of being gay, but they won’t be gay.”
Another report (https://www.huffpost.com/…/lgbtq-genetics-study_n_5d692f62e…)
echoes the material presented above as follows:
“The researchers said thousands more genetic variants likely are involved and interact with factors that aren’t inherited, but that none of them cause the behavior nor can predict whether someone will be gay.
”The research “provides the clearest glimpse yet into the genetic underpinnings of same-sex sexual behavior,” said co-author Benjamin Neale, a psychiatric geneticist at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“We also found that it’s effectively impossible to predict an individual’s sexual behavior from their genome. Genetics is less than half of this story for sexual behavior but it’s still a very important contributing factor,” Neale said.
”The study was released Thursday by the journal Science. Results are based on genetic testing and survey responses.”
Jehovah God has not left us in ignorance as to what is his will for us irrespective of our sinful (imperfect) genome. The Bible puts it this way: “For this is the will of God, that you should be holy and abstain from sexual immorality. Each one of you should know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not with greedy, uncontrolled sexual passion like the nations have that do not know God. No one should go beyond proper limits and take advantage of his brother in this matter, because Jehovah exacts punishment for all these things, just as we previously and strongly warned you. For God has called us, not for uncleanness, but for holiness. So, then, the man who disregards this is disregarding, not man, but God, who gives you his holy spirit” (1 Thessalonians 4:4-8).
