Cure sought for gay sheep

[realpolitic]

I guess there's no stopping fundies, but I'd rather have them experimenting on sheep than ranting at me.

http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/p2gaysheepexperiment

Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), a school that has received criticism in the past for torturing monkeys in its labs, has officially been outed. Information has been brought to light about ridiculous “gay sheep” experiments that are being conducted at the school. You heard right—OHSU experimenter Charles Roselli is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to kill homosexual rams and cut open their brains in an attempt to find the hormone behind homosexual tendencies so that these tendencies can be changed. Roselli is also working with experimenter Frederick Stormshak of Oregon State University (OSU), who has surgically inserted an estrogen implant in the bodies of these rams in an effort “to restore tissue levels of estrogen comparable to those of heterosexual rams and affect sexual behavior accordingly.”

To put it simply, these experimenters believe that homosexuality is a defect that needs to be fixed, and they’re cutting open and killing gay sheep to do it. These experiments also carry the insidious implication that homosexuality in humans needs to be "cured." In his application for public funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), he states that “this research also has broader implications for understanding the development and control of sexual motivation and mate selection across mammalian species, including humans.”

[PLATO]

In a related story, Fundamentalist researchers are looking for the hormone that makes one vote Democrat...they are hoping to have this malady cured prior to the 2008 elections...

[Dis]

*cough, cough*

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthre...249#post4733247

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=161161

noticed how biased that is compared to the link I posted.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2524408_2,00.html

[hexagonian]

...another cure could be considered 'lamb chops' and 'brasied leg of lamb'.

I'm realllllly sorry, I could not resist

[Traianvs]

OHSU experimenter Charles Roselli is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to kill homosexual rams and cut open their brains in an attempt to find the hormone behind homosexual tendencies so that these tendencies can be changed.

lol @ scientists. lots of knowledge, but little wisdom

[Heresson]

To put it simply, these experimenters believe that homosexuality is a defect that needs to be fixed, and they’re cutting open and killing gay sheep to do it. These experiments also carry the insidious implication that homosexuality in humans needs to be "cured."

What's wrong in that?

[Zkribbler]

I figure, one of two things will happen.

Either the experiments will be successful. Presumably, this will lead to human's abilities to switch sexual orientation. Because gays are some of the most discriminated-against people in the world, some may wish to afford themselves of this possiblity. On the other hand, switching from straight to gay could be used as a birth-control method.

More likely though, the experiments will prove to be a failure. In this case, we'll have lot of warm sweaters.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by hexagonian
...another cure could be considered 'lamb chops' and 'brasied leg of lamb'.

I'm realllllly sorry, I could not resist

Lamb chops are yummy as is a nice brasied leg of lamb. You just have to be careful not to over cook the lamb; it needs to be on the rare side. Nothing is worse then over cooked lamb.

[Kuciwalker]

Re: Cure sought for gay sheep

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the research they're doing, despite the motives. And you're quoting ****ing PETA.

[Zkribbler]

The quote in the OP says that the experiment is viewed as looking for a "cure" for being gay. Homosexuals have a big problem with this because they don't think they need to be "cured."

However, scientific research is scientific research. It must take us whereever the Truth may lie.

My best guess is that this expenment will lead nowhere. --But it's wrong to impose outside pressure from offended groups to prevent these experiments from going forward.

Meanwhile: MmmmMmmmmMMMMm giros.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
The quote in the OP says that the experiment is viewed as looking for a "cure" for being gay. Homosexuals have a big problem with this because they don't think they need to be "cured."

However, scientific research is scientific research. It must take us whereever the Truth may lie.

My best guess is that this expenment will lead nowhere. --But it's wrong to impose outside pressure from offended groups to prevent these experiments from going forward.

You don't think it's possible to change parameters that are "responsible" for homosexuality unless it's something that must be cured? That would make ethics far too easy. You can alsoscientifically find a method to cut off my arm (I think such research exists), yet having an arm is not a disease in my eyes.
So, it's well possible that this study may find out something about certain variable relevant for homosexuality. Thinking that such research is conducted with the aim to find a "treatment" is sick nonetheless.

However, the article in the OP is poorly written and BS (the "millions of taxpayer dollars", great piece of journalism), so I'd like to read a better opinion.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Heresson
What's wrong in that?

They should rather find a cure for Catholicism, a really nasty disease.

[Datajack Franit]

Originally posted by Heresson


What's wrong in that?

Homosexuals denying their own nature

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Wernazuma III


They should rather find a cure for Catholicism, a really nasty disease.

If there was a 'religious' area of the brain, or gene, or such. I would be interested to find out more about it.

JM

[Heresson]

Originally posted by Datajack Franit



Homosexuals denying their own nature

I find it really sad that some homosexuals would liketo limit free thought and science just to think better of themselves