damitall
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| Quote (eigenstate @ June 27 2013,14:33) | Lizzie's [URL=http://www.uncommondescent.com/philosophy/even-supposing-id-is-not-science-it-does-not-automatically-mean-it-is-religion-philosophy-
or-metaphysics/#comment-459739]recent response[/URL] to KF is worth noting in passing:
| Quote | And this: “cultural watershed direct attack on core sexual identity, family and marriage” is, in my view, complete rubbish. That doesn’t matter – you are entitled to express it. But you shouldn’t be surprised if the response is disgust and anger. There is no “cultural direct direct attack on core sexual identity”. What there is, thank goodness, is increasing understanding and tolerance of the biological fact that possession a Y chromosome does not determine whom you will, or should, love, and which gender you will, or should, identify with. As a result we now recognise that while most people’s gender identity is congruent with their chromosomal sex, gender identity results from a complex cascade of in utero hormones, and may not. Similarly, while most people are attracted to the opposite gender, some people’s sexual orientation is towards the same gender. Again, in utero hormones seem to be important. But whatever the biological determinants, there is no evidence whatsoever that tolerance of gay and transgender people is any threat whatsover to the heteronormal community, and sadly rather too much evidence that the reverse is still in operation. That’s why people get angry when they read views like yours, however principled. It is a principle based on no good evidence at all.
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The whole thing is worth reading. |
I did, and it certainly was! - if only to remind us of the pompous, pearl-clutching, professional umbrage-taking ass Mullings is.
Thankfully, he has no influence whatsoever - not even, it seems, amongst the other UDites.
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