Homosexuality, Nature or Nurture? Essays -- Homo Gay Lesbian

Homo knowledgeableity, Nature or Nurture? Homosexuality has become a large issue in our lives today. Gay Rights activists have been devising their voices heard this has attracted the attention of the population making them take notice of their cause. The church has not been able to get out-of-door from the powerful political and social pressure of homosexuality. Some churches have true homosexuality but many still do not remove homosexuals, saying it is unnatural and not what god intended of man. The church claims that what ever conclusiveness has been made, it has been done so on the basis of Christian moral principles. The grey Testament clearly forbids homosexual practices and in Leviticus 2013 it reads If in that location is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act they shall sure enough be put to death. (Pyne, 1992, http//www.probe.org/docs/homosex1.html) To address the issue of w hether homosexuality derives from biological determinism (nature) or from the influences experienced from the environment around them (nurture), in 1973 the APA (American psychiatric Association) through such(prenominal) pressure from the Gay Rights Activists, classified homosexuality under the heading of sexual orientation disturbance. Sexual orientation refers to an individuals sexual attraction towards persons of a bad-tempered gender. Heterosexuals show this attraction to members of the opposite sex, homosexuals show it to members who are the same sex. gibe to Gross, McIlveen, Coolican, Clamp and Russell, 2000, three to four percent of men are only homosexual compared to around one percent of women. Acc... ...new entranceway Hodder & Stoughton Pyne, 1992, http//www.probe.org/docs/homosex1.html, 04/2002 Saunders and Pickering, 1997, http//www.cmf,org,uk/pubs/nucleus/nucoct97/cause.htm 04/2002 Bibliography Bailey, 1991, http//www-2.cs.cmu .edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/ exploiter/scotts/bulgarians/nature-nurture/bailey-pil.html 04/2002 Blum, 1997, http//www.worldpolicy.org/americas/sexorient/twins.html 04/2002 Bourne, Russo, 1998,Psychology behaviour in context Norton. Cameron, http//www.familyresearchinst.org/FRI_EduPamphlet5.html 04/2002 McIlveen, Coolican, Clamp and Russell, 2000, Psychology, a new introduction Hodder & Stoughton Pyne, 1992, http//www.probe.org/docs/homosex1.html, 04/2002 Saunders and Pickering, 1997, http//www.cmf,org,uk/pubs/nucleus/nucoct97/cause.htm 04/2002