It's all in your head.

three blind mice — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:19:19 -0800

Homosexual brain resembles that of opposite sex. As announced yesterday in the Swedish Newspaper Dagens Nyheter, researchers at the Stockholm Brain Institute have published the results of a study conducted using PET scanning showing that homosexual men showed brain similarity with heterosexual women in their amygdala connections, which process certain emotions, as did homosexual women and straight men. Previous research has shown that the amygdala are linked to differences in face perception and stimulus response to odors between heterosexuals and homosexuals. Bottom line, certain crucial brain responses related to sexuality "are unlikely to be directly affected by learned patterns and behavior." "once you recognize homosexuality as a genetic reality, it does create a theological dilemma"

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