So maybe it is a sickness after all.

Professur

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Scientists look to straighten homosexual sheep
Gay rights campaigners slam US research

Former Wimbledon champion Martina Navratilova has come out in favour of the rights of homosexual sheep in a burgeoning row over tests carried out by two US universities aimed at "curing" ovine friends of Dorothy.

According to The Times, researchers at Oregon State University in the city of Corvallis and at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland were able to "pinpoint the mechanisms influencing the desires of 'male-oriented' rams by studying their brains".

Specifically, they cut open the offending sheeps' skulls, attached electonic sensors to their grey matter and monitored them while "varying the hormone levels, mainly by injecting hormones into the brain". They reported "considerable success" in getting previously gay rams to consider a bit of boy-on-girl.

The purpose behind these experiments is to "improve the productivity of herds" since "approximately one ram in 10 prefers to mount other rams rather than mate with ewes". The implications are far more sinister, opponents claim, since the acquired knowledge could in the future be used to "cure" human homosexuality, or may offer the prospect that "pregnant women could one day be offered a [hormone] treatment to reduce or eliminate the chance that their offspring will be homosexual".

Ms Navratilova weighed in with: "How can it be that in the year 2006 a major university would host such homophobic and cruel experiments?"

UK gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell declared: "These experiments echo Nazi research in the early 1940s which aimed at eradicating homosexuality. They stink of eugenics. There is a danger that extreme homophobic regimes may try to use these experimental results to change the orientation of gay people."

Udo Schuklenk, Professor of Bioethics at Glasgow Caledonian University, who has "written to the researchers pressing them to stop", added: "I don't believe the motives of the study are homophobic, but their work brings the terrible possibility of exploitation by homophobic societies. Imagine this technology in the hands of Iran, for example. It is typical of the US to ignore the global context in which this is taking place."

Professor Charles Roselli, the Health and Science University biologist heading the research programme, defended his work with: "In general, sexuality has been under-studied because of political concerns. People don't want science looking into what determines sexuality."

Michael Bailey, a neurology professor at Northwestern University near Chicago, risked the wrath of the gay community by stating: "Allowing parents to select their children’s sexual orientation would further a parent's freedom to raise the sort of children they want to raise."

As for the unfortunate gay rams subjected to the research teams' uninvited attentions, it remained for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to slam their sufferings as "a needless slaughter of animals, an affront to human dignity and a colossal waste of precious research funds". ®

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MrBishop

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Hey, maybe they can cure other offensive things while they're at it.

No more black sheep in the family.

Yeah, I can see a whole whack of homosexual men lining up for hormone injections into their brain to turn them from homosexual to bisexual.
 

highwayman

New Member
As for the unfortunate gay rams subjected to the research teams' uninvited attentions, it remained for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to slam their sufferings as "a needless slaughter of animals, an affront to human dignity and a colossal waste of precious research funds".

They are screaming that the animals rights have been violated...I can go for a leg of lamb for dinner tonight....
 

MrBishop

Well-Known Member
They are screaming that the animals rights have been violated...I can go for a leg of lamb right for dinner tonight....

Nothing about rights of animals...just a needless slaughter. You can't eat these rams, so it's a waste of meat.
 

MrBishop

Well-Known Member
Do i win a prize?

"Allowing parents to select their children’s sexual orientation would further a parent's freedom to raise the sort of children they want to raise."

Yeah...your first child can be the gender of your choosing, tall with blonde hair and blue eyes, pale complexion, with no freckles, naturally slim, intelligent and most importantly...straight. (Providing it's male...no guarantees if you choose female).
 

rrfield

New Member
true story: my dog (male) made another dog (male) suck his pee pee. funny as shit man, but now i call him a goddamn fagot when he pisses me off.
 

MrBishop

Well-Known Member
Nevermind.

I am wondering where all those who normally rail against things like in vitro, artificial fertilization, frozen embryos, gender choosing etc.. to come in here and rebut the practice that is being proposed here... in utero genetic modification.

It might be a while.
 

Gato_Solo

Out-freaking-standing OTC member
Nevermind.

I am wondering where all those who normally rail against things like in vitro, artificial fertilization, frozen embryos, gender choosing etc.. to come in here and rebut the practice that is being proposed here... in utero genetic modification.

It might be a while.

I'm against it. I believe homosexuality is a choice. A bad one, but a choice none-the-less. I've always stood by that, and played 'devils advocate' for curing the 'condition', but nobody wants to face reality...
 

Gotholic

Well-Known Member
Nevermind.

I am wondering where all those who normally rail against things like in vitro, artificial fertilization, frozen embryos, gender choosing etc.. to come in here and rebut the practice that is being proposed here... in utero genetic modification.

It might be a while.

This "treatment", I believe, is in vain.

There has been lots of success where homosexuals who want to get rid of their same sex attraction do so either solely by self will or with the help of sexual reorientation programs.

This practice with sheep is under the assumption that homosexuality is inborn.

While people may have a genetic predisposition towards homosexuality, it is through cognitive conditioning coupled with habituation that creates and strengthens homosexual desires. It is just like an alcoholic. People really do not choose to become an alcoholic, do they?
 
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