Celivia

One website claims that the Chinese government estimates there are 30 million gay men and women in China so I guess that's about 2.5% of the population.

Apparently though, there is a reluctance by gays to "come out" in rural areas where there still remains a stigma.

Interestingly, the website also claims that a Shanghai university opened its first academic course in homosexuality in 2005.

dickie: "There is nothing more just, I believe, than righteous parents discovering their child is gay."

Indeed. If there was actually a God, then at least one of Boaz's or Leigh's offspring would be gay.

Or maybe they are ;)

ronnie peters, Friday, 12,

Said, "He found that the nucleus of the hypothalmus that triggers male-typical sexual behaviour was much smaller in gay men and was much like that in women's brains. He also found that the corpus callosum differs (bigger in gays) between gay and straight men. It is also larger in artistic and people who inclined to think in degrees and are less either/or thinkers."

My question is: Do gay men produce sperm or ovum? Are they capable of fulfilling a male parental role?

dickie,
If you worked among children how did you determine they were gay? Did they later actually engage sexually as adults with other male adults; or were their behaviours childish effeminite?

"My question is: Do gay men produce sperm or ovum? Are they capable of fulfilling a male parental role?"

Philo, the answer to your question is clearly bleeding obvious.

The thing is, its not the point. Sexual attraction involves
innate tendencies and in the end, the mind is what the brain
does.

Lets say somebody was born gay, that's how their brain is wired.
Clearly nobody has a right to condem that person, much like
you can't condem somebody for the colour of their skin.

To deny that sexual attraction involves innate tendencies, is
ignoring the realities of how the mind works. We think and
we feel and what we feel involves emotions and innate feelings
of attraction. We ignore them at our peril.

For religion to condem what nature has created, is once again
just about people kidding themselves. At the end of the day,
when Philo has an erection, it kind of comes naturally, you don't
need to think about it and decide what is attractive and decide
to have an erection. Nature has it all figured out for you!

Philo, your not going to try that wasting sperm thing again are you?

If so we could try a couple of rephrases of your question (rather than redoing the maths on what proportion of sperm actually end up contributing to a childs dna - although that was fun).

My question is: Do catholic clergy (priests, nuns etc) produce sperm or ovum? Are they capable of fulfilling a parental role?

My question is: Did Jesus produce sperm or ovum? Was he capable of fulfilling a male parental role?

Now can you make the answers to the rephrased questions fit with your expectations of gays?

R0bert