> DEAR MR SWIFT: > > HOW COULD YOU HELP ME WITH MY SO CALLED HOMOPHOBIA?

Praise Gee-suss. He admits his affliction!

> I CAN ONLY TELL YOU TO READ THE BIBLE ON THIS.

*yawn* It was thoroughly underrated ... I preferred the movie. More violence, less condemnations.

> YOU KNOW I DOES BRING UP A INTERESTING POINT. (NO PUN INTENDED) > HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN HOMOSEXUALITY BY EVOLUTION.

Quite easily. In my opinion it is a trait that is passed no differently to other recessive genetic traits.

> WHY WOULD EVOLUTION SELECT A TRAIT WHERE THERE IS NO PROCREATION?

Exactly. Why would evolution allow handedness to be a passed trait, or eye colour, or hair colour. The last time I checked, hands, eyes and hair had nothing to do with reproduction.

Clue 1: Genetics determines the whole of us, not just the reproductive parts.

Clue 2: Gay people can *and do* reproduce.

Clue 3: The best theory so far to sexual orientation (and strikingly similar in proportions in the population) is the trait of handedness. It is an influenced trait that spans a spectrum (varying degrees of hand usage including ambidextrosity), has the overwhelming proportion of the population predominantly right handed dominated (92% are pro-right handed over left to some degree). Culturally it is significant because we used to punish left-handed people and make them use the right (example, in teachers of old who made left handers write with their right because of the old ink and nib method of writing -- using the left hand smudged what had been written.) Many gay people describe heterosexual sexual functions as being similar to the strange feeling they feel when using the odd hand -- they can do it, probably, but it is awkward and doesn't feel right nor natural for them and they have no desire to do it.

> OR ARE YOU SAYING THAT IT IS A LEARNED TRAIT?

Please read the clues, dear. If you get a clue or two, you may actually have some activity for your under-utilised neural pathways.

> YOURS IN CHRIST

Yours in reality.

> JOHN FILLMORE

Love,
Rod