Tuesday, September 12, 2006

PETA denounces "gay sheep" experiments

Sometimes I come across a story so bizarre, I don't know what to think. But that won't stop me from posting it.

My belief in what makes people "become" gay starts when sperm meets an egg. But I'm not a biologist, so what do I know.

From the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, web site:

At the heart of these multimillion-dollar experiments, which are funded by taxpayers through the year 2008, is the goal of identifying a biological basis for homosexuality in sheep in an effort to "cure" homosexuality in humans. OHSU experimenter Charles Roselli is killing scores of sheep and cutting open the brains of rams he calls "male-oriented" (homosexual) in an attempt to find the hormonal mechanisms behind homosexual tendencies, so that they can subsequently be changed.

Roselli is also working with experimenter Frederick Stormshak of Oregon State University (OSU (My note, the sports team nickname of Oregon State is the Beavers), who has surgically installed an estrogen implant in the bodies of rams in an effort "to restore tissue levels of estrogen comparable to those of heterosexual rams and affect sexual behavior accordingly."

In a March 5, 2004, news release issued by OHSU, the university admitted that Roselli and Stormshak would "like to know whether sexual preferences can be altered by manipulating the prenatal hormone environment, for instance by using drugs to prevent the actions of androgen in the fetal sheep brain."

Wow. PETA should be a specific about which government agencies are funding the gay sheep experiments.

Also, if there are gay sheep, why aren't there gay sheep parades?

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