Do you detect any bias in this newspaper report? “An elite Brisbane private school has bowed to pressure and dropped a sex-education book that suggests God hates homosexuals, gay people can “successfully” change to heterosexual, and people with ambiguous genitalia are “freaks”. Following Courier-Mail coverage that exposed the offensive book used in Year 10 religion […]
Tag: homosexuality
Pro-Gays Please Leave
Pro-Gays Please Leave, advises Aussie Anglican Archbishop to same sex marriage supporters, according to ABC News and Sydney Morning Herald 15 October 2019. Glenn Davies, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, has told those who want to bless same sex marriages they should leave the Anglican Church. In a speech to the Anglican Synod for Sydney […]
No Single “Gay Gene”
No single “gay gene” according to reports in BBC News and Science (AAAS) News 29 August 2019, and Science 30 Aug 2019, DOI: 10.1126/science.aat7693 An international group of scientists has carried out a study of genomes of 477,522 people from UK and USA using data obtained from UK Biobank and the USA gene sequencing company […]
GAYBC on Gay Penguins
GAYBC on gay penguins: Male penguin pair incubate egg, according to a report in Popular Science 12 August 2019 and ABC News 15 August 2019. Two male king penguins in the Berlin Zoo were noticed to display mating gestures to one another soon after arriving in the zoo, and since then have tried to incubate […]
Aboriginal Boxer Mundine Says Gays Should Die
Aboriginal boxer Mundine says gays should die, according to the Courier Mail (Queensland, Australia) 9 February 2018, p23. Anthony Mundine is an Australian boxer, described by the Courier Mail as a “high profile Muslim and self-styled Aboriginal leader”. According to Mundine homosexuality is banned in Islam and forbidden in Aboriginal culture, and those practicing it […]
Homosexual Genes Not Found
Homosexual genes not found comment genetic experts, following a report in Scientific Reports, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-15736-4 published online 7 December 2017 claiming to have found a “genome-wide significant association” to male sexual orientation. The “No” experts commented in The Scientist and the Science Media Centre 7 December 2017. The study involved scanning genomes of 1,077 homosexual men […]
Sexual Preference on the Brain
Sexual preference on the brain, as reported in articles in ScienceNOW 9 May 2005 and BBC Online News, 18 May 2005. A study of brain responses to exposure to male and female pheromones revealed differences between homosexual and heterosexual men. Pheromones are small scent molecules that act as chemical signals to activate parts of the […]
Pope on Preserving Gender
Pope says preserving gender is as important as preserving rainforests, according to articles in BBC News, 23 December 2009. In his end of year address to senior Vatican staff, Pope Benedict XVI stated that it was as important to preserve the distinction between male and female as it is to preserve rainforests, if the human […]
Gay Caveman
“Gay Caveman” found, claim archaeologists in a report in Daily Telegraph 6 April 2011 and Yahoo!7 News 7 April 2011. Archaeologists in the Czech Republic have excavated the grave of a man who was laid on his left side with his head facing west. The grave also contained household jugs, including an oval shaped jug […]
Archbishop Says Stop Teaching Creationism
Anglican Archbishop says stop teaching creationism reports The Guardian, 21 March 2006. “The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has stepped into the controversy between religious fundamentalists and scientists by saying that he does not believe that creationism – the Bible-based account of the origins of the world – should be taught in schools. Giving his […]