Bryan Fischer of the Christian
conservative American Family Association (AFA) has interpreted a
genetic study to mean being gay is the “result of a birth defect.”
The study from the National Institute
for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis suggests that homosexuality
is passed down genetically from the opposite gendered parent through
epigenetic marks, extra layers of information which control how
certain genes are expressed.
Fischer said the discovery would lead
prospective parents to choose to abort a pregnancy.
“As I have said before, I suspect
that not even homosexual activists today want the gay gene to be
found, even if it exists, because of advances in prenatal genetic
testing,” he
told his radio audience on Wednesday. “It is now possible to
routinely screen for 3500 genetic defects while a child is still in
the womb.”
“So these activists rationally fear
that preborn children who are detected with this gene will be aborted
before they even have the chance to be born. After all, if 90% of
babies in the womb who are diagnosed with Downs syndrome never draw
their first breath, what are the chances that parents disposed to
abortion will not exercise the same choice with regard to the gay
gene?”
“The scientists in Koebler’s
article, in my view, are now resorting to genetic subterfuge and are
coming dangerously close to saying that homosexuality is the result
of a genetic defect, a genetic abnormality. In other words, read
from one angle, these same scientists are saying that homosexuality
is the result of a birth defect.” (The video is embedded on this
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