GfS, when someone starts farting around with my name, then I know I've scored big, because getting personally insulting and abusive is all you've got. You're displaying what looks a lot like a temper tantrum.

And if I'm taking a long time responding, it's because I was off-line. Eight hours of sleep, among other things. After all, my life, unlike yours apparently, is not composed entirely of sitting at my computer. I DO have a life in the real world. Besides, I know that trying to set you straight is impossible because your head is made up and all the scientific evidence in the world to the contrary will not change it. You will persist in believing what you WANT to believe.

The operative word in my post above is "MAY" (not have been found). Unlike you, I am trying to be fair and objective. There are geneticists who maintain that they HAVE found the gene, and there are brain researchers who have found that there is a consistent difference in a lobe of the hypothalamus between heterosexual and homosexual men that they maintain must be the result of genetic influence. But not all scientists agree.

So—If I was operating with the kind of "scientific integrity" that you operate with, I would be making the flat, unequivocal statement that the gene HAS been found.

Read the rest of my post, the part about the possible mother's role in fetal development. As I said, they may be looking for the gene in the wrong place.

And Ake—I don't dispute the fact that there is much more HIV/AIDS among homosexual men than among heterosexual men. What I do give the lie to is your insistence that the virus springs up spontaneously with homosexual activity where it did not exist before. You know better. Or if you don't, then you're scientific education has been grossly neglected.

By the way, there IS one group of homosexual men in which the HIV/AIDS virus does not exist:    those who are in committed, monogamous relationships, which they tend to regard as marriages, whether the law recognizes it or not. No. No AIDS there. There's a lesson in that.

Don Firth

P. S. Why do I—why do any of us waste our time arguing with these two (yes, I WILL use the word, since, by its dictionary definition, it is the word that applies) BIGOTS?