Gilda, you're right to point out that "homosexuality is wrong" is a value judgement, but it's apparent that you have made your own value judgements about the issue:
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Homosexuality is a normal, healthy variant of human sexuality.
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"Normal" and "healthy" are both value judgements on your part in the context of today's society. So I hope that you do not use these terms to describe homosexual behavior in the natural environment of humans, since you don't want our fellow poster to use the term "wrong".
I'm glad that you posted the original article...it is interesting and insightful. It should not surprise anyone if there is some genetic basis for homosexuality. There have been homosexuals for at least 2000 years--the behavior was common enough to be mentioned in the Bible multiple times. This would suggest to me that it is in the nature of some people to be sexually attracted to their own gender. Whether or not we choose to act according to our nature is what makes humans so beautiful. Humans are naturally selfish--we lie, cheat, steal, etc. to our own advantage--yet we are also able to come together and forsake what is in our nature in order to be unselfish for the benefit of others.
My argument about homosexuality is that it may be perfectly natural for some, but that doesn't mean that it is appropriate to engage in homosexual behavior. I believe that it is a self-serving sexual act that is done in the exclusion of love (I make the same argument about heterosexual sex outside of marriage). But then again, these are my values, and while I stand by them, they have no bearing on the scientific understanding of homosexuality.
And getting back to that, if there is some "gay gene" (or five of them), it would take many, many generations for it to be taken out of the population if most homosexuals chose not to reproduce. But it's only been socially acceptable to be gay for maybe 50 years...and that's in America. If I was gay during the Spanish Inquisition, the first thing I'd to is find the first woman who would marry me whether I liked her or not and start making babies as fast as possible to keep anyone from being suspicious of my sexual orientation. So, really, there may have been a sociological incentive for homosexuals to reproduce until recently in a limited part of the globe.