I also don't know why I did that, to read again. Aish, I'm such a bookworm (or rather, was during my primary school days) so once I pick up a book... it's never going back down till I'm done with it. Unless it is really very bad haha. (but hey, why would I pick up a bad book in the first place? :b)
Okay, on about the book! Sing You Home is its title.
When I bought this book last year, I've already got a hint that its topic will somehow relate to LGBT, based on a lucky page I flipped to. Okay, let me clarify on myself, haha. I'm not disapproving of homosexuality. In my honest opinion, everyone should have the freedom of love. There was this quote inside the book which I am particularly fond of:
"I remember my mother telling me that, when she was a little girl in Catholic school, the nuns used to hit her left hand every time she wrote with it. Nowadays, if a teacher did that, she'd probably be arrested for child abuse. The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there's no right way or wrong way to do it. We're all just wired differently.Just beautiful. Beautiful. Okay. I might have just fallen in love with Picoult's writing today.
It's also worth noting that, when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he's right- or left- handed.
After all: Does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?"
So yes, this is a book on homosexuality, and one can see quite obviously what the author herself advocates for as well. To give you an idea of the plot, I've copied this off a website hehe:
One miscarriage too many spelled the end of Max and Zoe Baxter's marriage. Though the former couple went quite separate ways, their fates remained entangled: After veering into alcoholism, Max is saved in multiple senses by his fundamentalist conversion; Zoe, for her part, finds healing relief in music therapy and the friendship, then romantic love with Vanessa, her counselor. After Zoe and Vanessa, now married, decide to have a baby, they realize that they must join battle with Max, who objects on both religious and financial grounds.Yup okay, got it? Anyway, I really enjoyed reading this book, especially when it came to the ruling on court. There were just so many interesting information brought up on both sides! Good content for GP also hahahaha. Okays, here I go!
- The Bailey-Pillard studies
In 1991 and 1993, J.M.Bailey and R.C.Pillard studied homosexuality in twins. 52% of identical male twins of homosexual men were also homosexual; 48% of identical female twins of lesbians were also lesbian.
Some would argue that the data suggests a biological component to being gay, however, twins who are raised together have the same sort of shaping influences. In order to have a valid study, twins who were raised apart would have to be assessed. How about the other 48% of male twins and 52% of female twins who are NOT gay? Many people are born with a genetic predisposition toward depression or substance abuse yet don't indulge in behaviours that bring them to the surface.
The environment in which a child is raised has an enormous influence on whether or not he becomes homosexual. - Dean Hamer, 1993
Found in his research that gay brothers shared a piece of the X chromosome (Xq28) more often than straight brothers did.
However, this study hasn't been replicated.
Sexual orientation isn't all nature. There's a hefty dose of nurture tossed in as well. - Traditional family values (Mother and Father)
A. The attachment a parent of each sex has to its child, though equally important, is significantly unique. A mother's unconditional love and a father's conditional love complemet each other, influencing the way the child grows up. A relationship with both sexes in a child's formative years allows the child to interact with the world more easily in the later years.
B. There are different stages of psychological growth in a child's development. For example, although babies of both sexes at first respond better to the care of a mother, at a certain point, to hone his masculine identity, a boy must detach from his mother and identify with his father instead.
C. Same-sex relationships have been documented to cause sexual confusion in children, and promiscuity. The message sent is that all choices are equally desirable, and it doesn't matter who you marry. Thus, young people raised in same-sex relationship households tend to be both sexually active and sexually indiscriminate.
D. Same-sex relationships paves the way for even more socially unacceptable relationships. For example, polyamorous couplings. Instead of a family, it could be a commune.
But how come gay people have straight parents?
Kids need more than love, they need the complementary experiences of having a male and a female parent for guidance, instruction and psychological development. - Dr. William Reiner, University of Oklahama
Studied hundreds of cases of children born with sexual differentiation disorders (eg. undeveloped genitals), typically castrating the infant and raised as a girl. Not a single one grew up to be sexually attracted to males.
Clear example of nurture not trumping nature. - The Bible.
The Leviticus passage condemns homosexuality. However, if we were to obey by that holiness code, there are other passages as well such as Deuteronomy 22:30-21 (if a girl isn't a virgin, will be stoned to death), Mark 10:1-12 (forbid divorce), Mark 12:18-23 (man dies childless: his widow to have sex with his brothers), Deuteronomy 25:11-12 (2 men fighting, wife of one helps by grabbing genitals: hand cut off)
Not every decree in the Bible makes sense in this day and age.
Haha wow it has been an hour since I started this post. 1130PM right now, should start getting ready to sleep ahaha. Eye clinic checkup tomorrow >.<
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