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NCB - Don't get too excited about your utopian society just yet. You do understand that sexuality is a natural disposition, not the by-product of a single "deviant" gene you could try to cure like a cancerous cell, right? The point of understanding differences in genetic coding between people is that hopefully we can get away from fear and intolerance by showing that a person's orientation is natural for him or her, not some hedonistic choice to spite your religion.
Much like you had a genetic disposition for math vs. english, chess vs. football, vanilla vs. chocolate - all of these things we are also beginning to understand to be wired into and traceable in an individual's coding. The tricky part is that most of us don't like exclusively chocolate OR vanilla - we just have preferences to varying degrees. Kinsey's research proved it is the same with people's sexual orientation, and efforts to slap gay or straight labels (and laws) on people is as ridiculous and futile as if I were to legislate your choice of ice cream.
My point is that your preferences and my preferences aren't going anywhere short of a labotomy. It's who we are. If somebody wanted to abort a child on the chance the child may be gay? I'd say that person shouldn't be a parent anyway.
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Oft expectation fails...
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