tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post7295785349217359918..comments2024-03-24T21:25:13.059-07:00Comments on Inductivist: Approval of homosexuality continues to climbRon Guhnamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-45855758673698558502008-06-05T17:01:00.000-07:002008-06-05T17:01:00.000-07:00Could I ask where you got this from? I've been sea...Could I ask where you got this from? I've been searching and not finding anything. I'm doing a paper on this topic.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-12992186955416420002007-08-12T11:20:00.000-07:002007-08-12T11:20:00.000-07:00I question I've long pondered is: what are the lon...I question I've long pondered is: what are the long-term consequences of social tolerance/intolerance on the rate of homosexuality in the general population?<BR/><BR/>If homosexuality has any significant genetic basis, intolerance could have the paradoxical effect of increasing the percentage of the population predisposed to homosexuality by coercing gays into heterosexual marriage where they will reproduce and pass on their genes. In other words, intolerance unwittingly mitigates the severe evolutionary fitness disadvantage that homosexuality would otherwise confer.<BR/><BR/>However, since it's politically incorrect to suggest a hereditary basis for any behavioral characteristic, this irony is seldom commented upon.<BR/><BR/>-Old Pete (Not the same person as Peter.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-27037294304404150532007-08-12T08:02:00.000-07:002007-08-12T08:02:00.000-07:00I see a couple of interesting things on this graph...I see a couple of interesting things on this graph:<BR/>1) Acceptance of homosexuality may be on the rise, but more than half of respondents still think it's "always wrong."<BR/>2) Neither of the "sometimes" choices gets much support. Attitudes toward homosexuality tend toward either extreme.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com