Scientists Can Now Genetically Manipulate Sexuality of Fruit Fly

I am disinclined to believe that they did anymore than confuse a flies gender identity or as they said “sexually overstimulate”. But if they did, I hope people realize that this sort of research often times cannot be applied to higher animals. Forgive me if my opinion is irrelevant; I happen to be very biased on the subject.

Note Cori’s immediate dismissal of the scientists’ work as irrelevant. If no one would choose to be homosexual, with all the crap they have to take (That’s the party line…) Why, would anyone avoid a cure for a genetic disorder? Had the scientists found a way to cure cancer, they’d be on their way to collect their Nobel’s, since they proved homosexuality can be fixed, they’ll be pilloried.

Comparing homosexuality to cancer is a bit, for lack of a better word, stupid. I don’t recall the last time anyone has died of TEH GHAY, and don’t say AIDS because that’s a heterosexual disease too. Same for hate crimes, you have just as good a chance of dying from the black bug (curse you Africa!) as you do if you are homosexual.
Being a heterosexual male, I like being attracted to women. I’m sure the same can be said of anyone. It’s not a burden, and if someone said they invented a way to reverse that attraction in order to make me “normal” I would say no thank you. There’s probably a good reason fruit flies don’t write sonnets or invent the wheel.

This is like finding the genetic code for having five fingers on each hand.